Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine

This one is more of a pamphlet but is well worth your time. Written by one of the Founding Fathers, Paine, in this work outlines his idea for the kind of America he would want to live in once they settle the small matter of the revolution.

For Paine, like many of the founders, his vision for America was one where everyone had a fair chance to make the life that they wanted to live. This would include some proposals that would seem radical today, such as giving young people without an inheritance a piece of land upon which to start their own homesteads. Although it’s coming up on 300 years old, this piece has aged like fine wine in an age of growing inequality in the US.