Michele Bachmann’s Recommended Reading

Ken McIntyre / February 23, 2010

What author wouldn’t cherish a plug of his book by an attractive, poised public speaker who really knows how to excite and inspire a crowd?

And we don’t mean President Barack Obama citing “The Defining Moment,” Jonathan Alter’s book on FDR. This was Rep. Michele Bachmann, revving up CPAC with a speech that wound up quoting, um, liberally from “We Still Hold These Truths,” Heritage scholar Matthew Spalding’s book on America’s founding principles.

The Minnesota Republican, as this clip shows,  apparently likes how Spalding describes a very different defining moment: the choice Americans face between continuing down the road to centralized government and decline or  the road back to limited government and greatness. (more…)