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10 Books that should be read to articulately promote and expeditiously achieve goals F.R. goals
31 May 03
Posted on 05/31/2003 4:56:58 PM PDT by Remedy
Ten Books every F.R. member should read to articulately promote/defend and expeditiously achieve the goals stated @ About Free Republic
Scoring could be based on:
Sample list:
- NET Bible
- Federalist Papers AND The Antifederalist Papers (as an integrated whole)
- In Search of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
- Farrand's Records Home Page: US Congressional Documents
- Taking Back America
- Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law
- Understanding the Times
- Amazon.com: Books: Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth: Why Much ...
- Antonio Gramsci -- Selections from Cultural Writings -- Antonio ... OR Amazon.co.uk: Books: Selections from the Prison Notebooks of ...
- Thus spake Zarathustra is my brother's most personal work.
- # 9 & #10 are a few basics about the ideology of the cultural hegmony which is anti - American/Christian.
If there is enough intrest, maybe an F.R. poll could be initated to finialize the top 10 reads of F.R.
If there is no intrest, or a survey of this type has been done on F.R., request that moderator pull this post.
TOPICS: Books/Literature; Reference
KEYWORDS: books; federalistpapers; readinglist
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posted on
05/31/2003 4:56:58 PM PDT
by
Remedy
To: Remedy
I'll add:
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt;
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises;
Virtually anything by Robert Heinlein (there's a message in the fiction)
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness and The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
1984 by George Orwell
--Boris
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posted on
05/31/2003 8:48:04 PM PDT
by
boris
To: Remedy
"Ten Books every F.R. member should read to articulately promote"
How about a grammar primer so he doesn't split his infinitives?
To: Remedy
A Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek should be on any list of this kind.
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posted on
06/01/2003 2:18:47 AM PDT
by
Sam Cree
To: Sam Cree
I thought it was The Road to Serfdom...
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posted on
06/01/2003 5:11:13 PM PDT
by
boris
To: boris
Yeah, you are right, it is "The."
I ought to know, I keep buying the things and giving them to friends.
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posted on
06/01/2003 6:35:31 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: Remedy
In recommending books, I'd always recommend
Witness the autobiography of Whitaker Chambers. Mr. Chambers was a member of the communist underground in the 20's and 30's and was involved in espionage. He broke with communism and became a Christian. He ran from communism for several years to keep from being killed by the communists. He later became an informer and was a primary witness at the perjury trial of Alger Hiss. Hiss was convicted, but the left still claims that he was innocent. When the communist governments fell in the late 80's and early 90's, papers in their files showed that Hiss was a spy for them. I've named my website
Witness for the Right in honor of Mr. Chambers.
Otherwise, I think conservatives need to read a variety of things rather than concentrate on any single list. I've read through parts of The Federalist Papers, and I find them a bit dry for general reading. I'm more inclined to have them for reference than to try to go through all of them at once. I recently read the McCullough biography of John Adams, and I found it very interesting. I've read severl book by and about Theodore Roosevelt. I think that as long as we read enough to be generally educated about our nation and its history, we can be effective in advancing our cause.
Saving a few more jobs
Bill
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posted on
06/01/2003 8:32:52 PM PDT
by
WFTR
(Liberty isn't for cowards)
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