Here's What Books These 5 Influential Libertarians Recommend

Over the weekend I attended the 2021 Libertarian Party of Ohio Conference. At the end of the conference, the five speakers - Evan McMahon, Spike Cohen, Ken Moellman, Mayor Cassandra Fryman, and Jim Cavoli - hosted a panel in which the audience could ask them any question.

One question was What book would you recommend? In this post, I will share their answers and provide links where you can go buy the recommended books.

Evan McMahon

Evan McMahon is the Chair of the Libertarian Party of Indiana. He has also served as former Executive Director of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee (LNCC), former At-Large Rep on the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), and campaign manager or advisor for several high profile campaigns.

Evan recommended Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky and Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way.

• Buy Rules for Radicals on Amazon.

• Buy Rules for Radicals on Abebooks.

• Buy Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way on Amazon.
• Buy Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way on Abebooks.

Spike Cohen

Spike Cohen was the Vice Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party back in 2020. He is also the co-owner of Muddied Waters Media, the co-host of The Muddied Waters of Freedom, and the host of My Fellow Americans.

Spike recommended How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

I read this book back in April of this year, and I agree it is an excellent book. Similar books are full of lots of fluff with no substance. This one definitely has substance.

• Buy How to Win Friends and Influence People on Amazon.
• Buy How to Win Friends and Influence People on Abebooks.
• Borrow How to Win Friends and Influence People on the Libby App

Ken Moellman

Ken is the Vice Chair of the Libertarian National Committee and Northern Kentucky resident.

He didn’t have any specific books he recommended. Instead, he recommended that people get books about things they’re weakest at. For instance, he has about seven or eight books on fundraising.

• Search for fundraising on Amazon.
• Search for fundraising on Abebooks.

Mayor Cassandra Fryman

Cassandra Fryman is the mayor of Plymouth, Ohio. She is best known for dismissing all traffic tickets in Plymouth’s Mayor Court.

She recommended liberty-themed children’s books, particularly the Tuttle Twins series.

• Search for the Tuttle Twins on Amazon.
• Search for the Tuttle Twins on Abebooks.

Jim Cavoli

Jim Cavoli is the Chair of the Libertarian Party of Ohio and previously served as the Director of IT, also for the Libertarian Party of Ohio.

As his day job is an engineer, he recommended the textbook Systems Engineering Management.

For a little lighter reading, he recommended Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen.

• Buy Systems of Engineering Management on Amazon.

• Buy Systems of Engineering Management on Abebooks.

• Buy Getting Things Done on Amazon.
• Buy Getting Things Done on Abebooks.

Summary

Here are the links to the books on Amazon:

• Getting Things Done
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Rules for Radicals
• Systems of Engineering Management
• The Tuttle Twins (series)
• Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
• fundraising (topic)

Here are the links to the books on Abebooks:

• Getting Things Done
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Rules for Radicals
• Systems of Engineering Management
• The Tuttle Twins (series)
• Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
• fundraising (topic)

Have you read any of these books? What other books would you recommend?