The following books together perhaps constitute the "Ultimate Library of Enlightenment" in my humble opinion----
"Economics In One Lesson" Henry Hazlitt
"It Didn't Have To Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary---and
How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle" Harry C. Veryser
"Democracy: The God That Failed" Hans-Hermann Hoppe
"Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before The Coming Fiscal Collapse" Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
"We Who Dared To Say No To War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now" Edited by Murray Polner & Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
"Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction To Revisionism" Jeff Riggenbach
"Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Archenemy Betrayed The American
Revolution---And What It Means For Americans Today" Thomas J. DiLorenzo
"Crisis And Leviathan: Critical Episodes In The Growth of American Government" Robert Higgs
"The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve" G. Edward Griffin
"Requiem For Marx" Edited by Yuri N. Maltsev
"Men Against The State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism In America, 1827---1908" James J. Martin
"Libertarian Anarchy: Against The State" Gerard Casey
*** and last...but CERTAINLY NOT least, these books by Murray N. Rothbard---
"For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto"
"Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy"
"What Has Government Done To Our Money?"
"The Betrayal of The American Right"
The ancient Sumerian cuneiform symbol "ama-gi" is sometimes held to be the first written reference to the concept of liberty.
