An excursion to two outlets of Half-Priced Books in San Antonio, Texas (my redoubt for the Christmas season) netted me the following:

The Anti-Federalists, by Jackson Turner Main. Reading it now.

The Florence King Reader, by Florence King. Will make a monarchist of you, if you aren’t already one.

A Matter of Opinion, by Victor Navasky. I’ve been meaning to pick up a copy ever since it came out in 2005. I browsed TAC’s review copy before sending it to Chilton Williamson to write up. There are some interesting passages about the business side of small magazines.

On Human Conduct, by Michael Oakeshott. A real find, this, and a good value even at $15.

50 Years of Dissent, edited by Nicolaus Mills and Michael Walzer. Features Dwight Macdonald, C. Wright Mills, David Bromwich, Irving Howe, and many more, though it looks to be less interesting overall than those names would suggest. Still, for $5, why not?

Perjury, by Allen Weinstein. Classic account of the Hiss-Chambers case.

On Morality and Society, by Emile Durkheim. You can’t have too much Durkheim.

Rousseau’s Political Writings, edited by Alan Ritter and Julia Bondanella. It’s a Norton Critical Edition. Purchased mostly for the Robert Nisbet essay included in the critical material, though it’s useful that the book also compiles short reactions to Rousseau from Voltaire, Hume, Samuel Johnson, Casanova, Adam Smith, Tom Paine, Kant, Maistre, John Adams, Benjamin Constant, Proudhon, and Tolstoy.

The Conservative Mind, by Russell Kirk.  A mint copy of the seventh revised edition from 1987 in a striking lime-green, text-only cover. My copy of one of the later printings of the seventh edition is in an ever more tattered condition, so for $8 I thought I might as well pick this up. I won’t be taking it back to D.C. with me: it’ll be just as well to have a copy on hand in San Antonio whenever I see my family.

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