Political Reading List

[Kennedy 0]

Just some books I've read or had highly recommended.
Who else has got some good books, new and old?
(all ideologies welcome, even America-haters)

"Men In Black" by Mark Levin

"A Republic, Not An Empire" and
"The Sorrows of Empire" by Pat Buchanan

"Meltdown" by Patrick J. Michaels

"We Were Soldiers Once, And Young" by LtCol Harold Moore

"The Shadow University" by (I can't remember)

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[DrunkMonkey 0]

The only thing a book by Pat Buchanan is good for is emergency toilet paper or survival kit firestarter...

He's a facist.

Edited to add http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/buchanan.htm

[jdhill 0]

"Constitutional Chaos" by Andrew Napalitano

While not entirely political, still good reads and parts are relevant to current policy discussions... "Battle Ready" by Zinni/Clancy and "Shadow Warriors" by Steiner/Clancy

J

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

[justinb138 0]

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"We Were Soldiers Once, And Young" by LtCol Harold Moore

Wasn't there a movie based on this one?

[jdhill 0]

Yes, Mel Gibson was the lead... from a few years ago...

J

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

[Kennedy 0]

May I suggest you at least read the Amazon summary/description of the books before condemning them to the bonfire? You might be surprised at how much you agree with the ideas.

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[DrunkMonkey 0]

I'm not going to waste my time on Buchanan. He's shown himself to be a racist who perverts Christianity to rally millions of sheepish morons nationwide.

[Kennedy 0]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277434/

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[billvon 3,070]

Once an Eagle, Myrer

Catch-22, Heller

[skydyvr 0]

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The only thing a book by Pat Buchanan is good for is emergency toilet paper or survival kit firestarter...

He's a facist.

Dictionary.com definition #2 of the term facist: A reactionary or dictatorial person.

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[Kennedy 0]

I agree the guy has some serious issues upstairs. That doesn't mean he hasn't got something worthwhile to say on topics other than domestic issues.

You can inform yourself or not, but I suggest you at least check them out.

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[storm1977 0]

I just read "Unholy Allience: Radical Islam and the American Left" by David Horowitz

I thought it was an excellent Book describing the history of the Communist movement in america and how that has been reshaped over the years.

It points out the Irony in the Neo-Communist movement and how it has allied itself with Radical Islam... A group quite opposite of the Communist/Utopian view of the american Left.

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[billvon 3,070]

> I just read "Unholy Allience: Radical Islam and the American Left"
> by David Horowitz

I read part of that as well. It ranks up there with Ann Coulter's and Al Franken's books - all books telling people exactly what they want to hear.

[DrunkMonkey 0]

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... - all books telling people exactly what they want to hear.

See Also:
Rush Limbaugh
Pat Buchanan
Pat Robertson

[ScubaSteve 0]

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV - Mikailovich Dostoevsky

Favorite: The Grand Inquisitor

[storm1977 0]

Maybe, but at least Horowitz lived the life first...
He was after all pretty far left back in the day.

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[FallRate 0]

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all books telling people exactly what they want to hear.

Depends on the audience.

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[billvon 3,070]

>Depends on the audience.

Exactly. I suspect not too many conservatives buy "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right." Nor do liberals buy "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism."

[Kennedy 0]

I may not buy either of them, but I'll read them for free at Barnes & Noble.

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Editorial Reviews (of Republic not an Empire)
Amazon.com
Anyone who has caught Pat Buchanan's television appearances, or heard his campaign rhetoric, will be surprised at his relatively evenhanded and thoughtful tone as he writes--often quite persuasively--in favor of the restoration of the political, military, and economic independence that largely drove U.S. foreign policy in the 19th century. At the heart of A Republic, Not an Empire is a well-written history of U.S. foreign policy beginning with the end of the American Revolution, going through the First and Second World Wars, Vietnam, and the end of the cold war, up to the superpower's involvement in the Persian Gulf and the former Yugoslavia. This section is bookended by, essentially, two very long op-ed pieces that lay out Buchanan's view of U.S. foreign policy: American interests should determine all foreign-policy decisions.

The twin foreign-policy goals of interventionism and free trade that seem to drive the Clinton administration's foreign policy are, Buchanan argues, the same pursuits "that brought the British Empire to ruin." Empires fall, he reminds us, through war and too many foreign commitments. With the end of the cold war, he suggests, U.S. foreign policy has become chaotic, driven by special interests; the sum of U.S. global commitments has become greater than the country's ability to defend them. In the end, A Republic, Not an Empire proposes, the only country the United States can completely rely on and trust is itself.
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Also, Sorrows of Empire is not by Buchanan, but by Chalmers Johnson.

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[TheAnvil 0]

I read part of idiot-boy Franken's book in a B & N one time. The man lives in constant pain, because it has to hurt being that stupid. One wonders if his parents had any kids that lived.

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[billvon 3,070]

> I read part of idiot-boy Franken's book in a B & N one time.

Yeah, I read most of Coulter's book in a Borders. She has enough hatred in her for ten suicide bombers, but this being america, she's found a profitable outlet for all that hate. You can make money on anything here!

[jdhill 0]

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"Men In Black" by Mark Levin

Have you read this one yet? If so, what did you think? I've almost picked it up a few times, but have a few other books I need to finish before I start another.

J

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

[Kennedy 0]

That one's on the "to read" list. It was highly recommended, but I can't say one way or the other.

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[JohnRich 4]

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Who else has got some good books, new and old?

I'm disappointed that no one has yet mentioned this one:
"Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand

[DrunkMonkey 0]

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Who else has got some good books, new and old?

The Cat in the Hat By Dr. Seuss.