People are listing books that turned them conservative:
I, however, read (not all but some) of these books after I became a conservative. Zygmunt Bauman, a Marxist, turned me conservative. Poor dude would have been horrified. I’m sure, though, that if he were 30 years younger and could witness the complete neoliberalization of the Left, he would have been one of us.
Bauman’s Liquid Love is an ode to stability and permanence in personal attachments. There’s nothing more conservative than that.
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My parent’s copy of The Gulag Archipelago as a teenager shaped my politics. But the book that shaped my worldview as a child was The Lord of the Rings.
The conservative temperament is fundamentally tragic and hopeful.
~Codex
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I would call myself orthodox or traditionalist rather than conservative.
Books that confirmed me in that position;
The Everlasting Man, Chesterton
Witness, Whittaker Chambers
Darkness at Noon, Koestler
Mr. Blue, Myles Connolly (deep in its simplicity)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde (found it in a trash can on ship)
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I love Whittaker Chambers. His book was a revelation. I need to write more about it here on the blog.
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A great deal of history, and particularly Churchill’s and Orwell’s memoirs, read during high school, creating a rather conservative and conscientous outlook — a strange nerd/jock could do worse ;-D
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