Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Rules for ANTI-Radicals: A Practical Handbook for Defeating Leftism by F. Paul Valone ’80

May 22, 2025

Tags Alumni Book

(Bacchus USA Publications, 2022)

Drawing from the author’s 28 years of grassroots leadership, this book is described as “a comprehensive tactical guide to direct action in economic, political, legal, and non-legislative arenas essential for conservatives to defeat socialism and preserve American culture.

“Unlike theoretical treatises denouncing leftism, exposing Marxism, and calling conservatives to unspecified action, the book is a nuts-and-bolts guide to strategy and tactics. Using personal experience, Valone highlights specific activist operations and their reasons for success or failure.

“Valone’s central theme is that if you don’t ‘do’ politics, politics will ‘do’ you. Citizens reluctant to engage in the sometimes-dirty business of politics should understand that if they don’t participate, political players will make decisions which profoundly impact their lives, generally without their best interests in mind.

Written in sardonic, politically incorrect style, the book is a tool not only for conservative political activists and politicians, but equally for citizens alarmed by America’s lurch toward socialism,” noted the publisher.