Posted on 05/04/2007 8:03:11 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
Romney has said his favorite novel of any genre is probably Huckleberry Finn and he has read all of Louis LAmours westerns.
Mitt Romney is thought to be the best read among the candidates about the threat of the Jihadist. Romneys reading list includes the following books among others on the topic:
The Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightTalk radio host Hugh Hewitt interviewed professor of military history and noted author Victor Davis Hanson who observed Mitt Romney's ability to discuss Middle East foreign policy at length with experts at the Hoover Institution:
American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us by Steven Emerson
Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America by Walid Phares
America Alone by Mark Steyn
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Hugh Hewitt: What I like is that hes a voracious reader, not only your books, but things like The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright, Mark Steyns America Alone. I think this is pretty rare these days, to find curiosity at that level, and at that sort of voracious appetite for information. What do you talk about with him?Victor Davis Hanson: Well, we talk about history just like you and I talk about. We talk about foreign policy, he talked about the plan or the effort to democratize the Middle East, the shortfalls, the problems, the liabilities, and you know what? He came to the Hoover Institution and got in front of 40 senior fellows. And in that room there were Nobel Prize winners, a lot of egos, too. And he held court with them, and there were a lot of hostile questions, and he went for an hour and a half, head to head, with these people. When he walked out of that room, I think everybody was impressed with him. He didnt pull any punches, and he could argue and was as logical as any Hoover fellow, and I was more impressed with him than I was with my colleagues.
(The Hugh Hewitt Show, March 13, 2007)
It was a great book, and the fact that she was an atheist has nothing to do with it.
Atlas Shrugged (and The Fountainhead, and We the Living, and Anthem] is a book about individualism, and how all of Western society would crumble without individuals taking risk and building their enterprises for their own reasons.
And Atlas Shrugged is also a great cautionary tale of how such a country could slide into socialism by forgetting these basics of human nature.
Atlas Shrugged should be read by every American preferably before they start voting.
I'd agree, he certainly is strange.
Good Day, Rob. The only problem with that is that no one would vote until they reach 30.
Rand's problem was with cumpolsory charity and kindness extorted at the point of a gun, such as when the government takes part of our earnings and gives it to someone with what they consider a greater need for the money. Rand felt that charity and kindness were to be given for what they added to the life of the giver, not as some penance for success.
Hey Jeff, Maybe they could do a comic book version? Hope you are doing great. Actually they are going to make the movie of Atlas soon, 9 to 12 hours, Angelina Jolie as Dagny. I hope they don’t kill it.
Just my opinion concerning good FReeper manners stuff.
Personally, my favorite book is Shogun, and if any candidate has not read it, then they will not deserve my vote, weather they get it or not.
Personally, I’ve long thought that all Scientologists should burn in hell just for their role in dragooning John Travolta into doing that movie.
Thanks.
The book was great. Movie was awful. I left in the middle of it.
John
And the voluntary aspect is the critical point.Otherwise it becomes confiscation of hard earned wealth.
And,if you really think about it,even in most socialist states,the redistributed wealth rarely goes to”the people”but to the State bureaucrats.
Oh, forHeaven’s sake. It is a really interesting novel. Can you lighten up a bit?
Please don’t tell me this. I’ve succeeded in accomodating to his Mornomism, please don’t start over with scientology.
Ha ha ha.
You made me laugh.
Thanks.
Actually, most people don't, anyway (and it's probably a good thing).
Oh geesh!!! How can a guy do so well in the debate and then do something so stupid on Fox News?
Um, I hate to break this to you, but his entertainment choices are really insignificant in light of his TRULY BIZARRE and FRIGHTENING choices about PUBLIC POLICY, to whit: his cherished RomneyCare, which was -- and is -- based on the extreme kind of economic illiteracy usually found in the average DEMOCRAT -- as is his apparent ignorance of WHAT was the BIGGEST cause of the price explosion in health care last century. Cato@Liberty reminds us that WHAT this travesty does (among other things), it:
* Imposes an unprecedented individual mandate, requiring everyone in Massachusetts to purchase a government-designated insurance product or face thousands of dollars in tax penalties.* Significantly increased Medicaid eligibility and provided taxpayer-funded subsidies for a family of four earning as much as $62,000 year, effectively extending welfare well into the middle class.
* Creates a Hillary Clinton managed-competition-style regulatory authority called the Massachusetts Health Care Connector. This new regulatory body has already mandated that every health care policy sold in the state must cover prescription drugs and has outlawed policies with deductibles of more than $2,000.
* Imposes a penalty on businesses that do not provide health insurance to their employees (although in fairness, this provision was enacted over Governor Romneys veto.)
* Greatly expands the states health care bureaucracy, creating at least 10 new boards, commissions, and other institutions to study and regulate health care.
Cool graphic. Is it yours? May I use it?
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