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Can anyone recommend any good republican memoirs?
Ennis85

Posted on 01/25/2013 4:07:07 PM PST by Ennis85

Hi, I'm interested in reading about American politics and for a while I've been reading through Henry Kissinger's memoirs. I have to say they're a bloody good read, there are 3 volumes of them and well over a thousand pages each. They're pretty well written, rich in detail and he does defend himself well.

So they made me want to look for more books with regards to republican policy throughout American history,thinking maybe there are some that could rival Kissinger.

So basically I'm asking if anyone can recommend any decent books by republicans. I don't care if they're from the Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan or Bush eras


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To: Fightin Whitey

I don’t find him dull whatsoever, except insofar as I can’t follow his abstruse attempts to fashion a psuedo-scientific unified field theory of history. He was a master prose stylist, in my opinion. I wish more people were exposed to his novels. His thought I find fascinating and original, aside from the aforementioned theorizing.

Look, for example, in “The Eductlation” where the Civil War is foreshadowed in snowball fights with fellow neighborhood kids. Or his portrait of the half remembered John Quincy, or his description if his sister’s death. Not that I can convince you of its interest by how it affected me, if you didn’t feel it.


41 posted on 01/25/2013 7:37:40 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

Right. No offense intended.

The hollow sound of a book hitting a head isn’t always the book, you know?


42 posted on 01/25/2013 7:46:56 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Ennis85

Gotta say I really appreciate the feedback I’ve gotten so far. By all means keep them coming. Quite a selection here I must say. I saw the both the Dick Cheney and George Bush ones at my local bookstore a while ago, they’re not there anymore unfortunately. From what little I read from them they seemed pretty good, so I’ll likely those those up sometime in the future.

And thanks for the Ronald Reagan recommendations I have always wanted to find a good book on him.


43 posted on 01/26/2013 7:37:37 AM PST by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Did Calvin Coolidge write one?


44 posted on 01/26/2013 7:40:35 AM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: Ennis85

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has a great book club.

www.isi.org


45 posted on 01/26/2013 4:43:34 PM PST by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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Dick Cheney's In My Time was just as the man I remember cancelling the A-12. To the point; no regrets.
46 posted on 01/26/2013 7:07:15 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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