{"id":8,"date":"2025-12-16T23:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therootoflib.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:49:29","slug":"essential-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Essential Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1. “I, Pencil<\/a>“, by Leonard E. Read, 1958<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.\u00a0“That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen<\/a>“, by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, 1848<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.\u00a0“The Candlemakers’ Petition<\/a>“, by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, 1845<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.\u00a0The Law<\/em><\/a>, by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, 1850<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.\u00a0“The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude<\/a>“, by Etienne de La Boetie, 1552<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.\u00a0“Not Yours to Give<\/a>“, The words of Colonel David Crockett; Compiled by Edward S. Ellis, 1867<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.\u00a0The Road to Serfdom<\/em><\/a>, by Friedrich A. Hayek, 1944<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.\u00a0“The Tale of the Slave<\/a>“, by Robert Nozick, 1974<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.\u00a0The State<\/em><\/a>, by Franz Oppenheimer, 1908<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.\u00a0“The Myth of the Rule of Law<\/a>“,\u00a0 by John Hasnas, 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.\u00a0The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State<\/em><\/a>, by Auberon Herbert, 1885<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.\u00a0For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto<\/em><\/a>, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. “I, Pencil“, by Leonard E. Read, 1958 2.\u00a0“That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen“, by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, 1848 3.\u00a0“The Candlemakers’ Petition“, by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, 1845 4.\u00a0The Law, by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, 1850 5.\u00a0“The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude“, by Etienne de La Boetie, 1552 6.\u00a0“Not Yours to Give“, The words …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post","without-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}