Books were at all times his chosen companions, said Ellen Wayles Randolph speaking of her grandfather Thomas Jefferson.
– Jefferson and Book

Research, not Leisure
I have read many of these books before but a due over is required for the sake of clarity. This is not a full list but a few to share.
- The Soul of the World by Sir Roger Scruton
- The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
- Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman
- Politics by Aristotle
- Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires
- On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
- Theology and the Religions: a Dialogue edited by Viggo Mortensen
- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
- Eighteenth Century Europe: Tradition and Progress (1715-1789) by Isser Woloch
- Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
- A Secular Age by Charles Taylor