What Book most influenced your political beliefs?

http://boston.com | 3/12/02 | me

[Burkeman1]

Hmmm- Arnold got a bad rap? HOw is that?

[A.J.Armitage]

I have a list at Amazon.

[Pompah]

As a young man I read Animal Farm. Then moved on to Mr. Huxley's Brave New World .
While still mulling those two over. I found and read
Berry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative..

I was hooked.

[Burkeman1]

How true. I have not read a novel in at least a decade. But you sparked a memory in me. Flannery O'Conner was very influential on me. Her short stories are just mesmerizing. I can't put a finger on how she influenced me but she did. I have a volume of her work in storage. Maybe I should get it out.

[sweetliberty]

The Bible.

[sweetliberty]

"Earth Abides"

I have never talked to anybody else who has read that. That was a great book wasn't it?

[sweetliberty]

"I thought I was the only one. "

So did I, but obviously not. It seems like I find those of like mind in so many ways, even obscure ways, on FR. Next thing you know I'll turn up a group of Shawn Phillips fans!

[sweetliberty]

"Anything featuring Scrooge McDuck."

Well, if you're gonna go there, I'd might as well throw anything Garfield into the mix.

[Sam Cree]

Rand makes much of the beautiful idea that a society based on individual freedom and personal liberty allows a man to follow his own dreams, allowing untold benefits to mankind, while a socailist society has an official dream which all must follow, thereby causing stagnation and mediocrity and misery.

Her atheism is a turn off to many conservatives, but her ideas on socialism and the left are dead on.

[MeekOneGOP]

Her atheism is a turn off to many conservatives, but her ideas on socialism and the left are dead on.

Thanks for that input. I had forgotten about her Atheism....