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re: What are your Top 5 books about American Politics?
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:24 pm to goatmilker
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:24 pm to goatmilker
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would sure like to know who downvoted
Presumably the usual Contrarian-Marxists. Who else?
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Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:27 pm to Wednesday
1920 The Year of the Six Presidents: David Pietrusza - Amazon.com
The same author has also written books on the presidential elections of 1932, 1948, and 1960, all of which are excellent.
Just finished a very similar book:
Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the “Rocking, Socking” Election of 1952
Highly recommended as well.
RIP
quote:This has become on of my all time favorite history books. Not only is the wheeling and dealing at the nominating conventions fascinating, but the book is often laugh out loud funny -- surely a rare quality in history books, at least in my experience
The presidential election of 1920 was among history's most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson's League of Nations and Harding's front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America. Women won the vote. Republicans outspent Democrats by 4 to 1, as voters witnessed the first extensive newsreel coverage, modern campaign advertising, and results broadcast on radio. America had become an urban nation: Automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit transformed the economy. 1920 paints a vivid portrait of America, beset by the Red Scare, jailed dissidents, Prohibition, smoke-filled rooms, bomb-throwing terrorists, and the Klan, gingerly crossing modernity's threshold.
The same author has also written books on the presidential elections of 1932, 1948, and 1960, all of which are excellent.
Just finished a very similar book:
Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the “Rocking, Socking” Election of 1952
Highly recommended as well.
RIP
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:28 pm to Wednesday
Anything written by Pat Buchanan
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:30 pm to goatmilker
Decision Points. GWB.
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:30 pm to Wednesday
Read these two and you'll understand how the media, government, and advertizers manipulate you.
1. Edward Bernays Crystallizing Public Opinion. (1923)
2. Edward Bernays Propaganda (1928)
Read these and you'll understand what's coming
3. Kurt Vonnegut - Animal Farm
4. George Orwell 1984
5. Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Bonus read
Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron (short story)
.FA Hayek Road to Serfedom (could easily be in the top 5)
1. Edward Bernays Crystallizing Public Opinion. (1923)
2. Edward Bernays Propaganda (1928)
Read these and you'll understand what's coming
3. Kurt Vonnegut - Animal Farm
4. George Orwell 1984
5. Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Bonus read
Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron (short story)
.FA Hayek Road to Serfedom (could easily be in the top 5)
This post was edited on 5/11/24 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:34 pm to Toomer Deplorable
The Law can be read in a lunch hour. It leads to bliss.
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:38 pm to Taxing Authority
quote:
Kurt Vonnegut - Animal Farm
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:40 pm to Kafka
Atlas Shrugged
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:42 pm to Kafka
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Kafka
DOH! I always get that one mixed up. Thanks for the correction 
This post was edited on 5/11/24 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:43 pm to Kafka
quote:
Kurt Vonnegut - Animal Farm
I preferred Ray Bradbury’s Brave New World.
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:43 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
I preferred Ray Bradbury’s Brave New World.
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:50 pm to Wednesday
The Anti-Federalist Papers
No Treason by Lysander Spooner
The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray Rothbard
The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan
Liberty Defined by Ron Paul
No Treason by Lysander Spooner
The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray Rothbard
The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan
Liberty Defined by Ron Paul
This post was edited on 5/11/24 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:52 pm to DyeHardDylan
It probably wouldn't hurt Republicans to read Alynsky's Rules for Radicals. (short). They're going to need them or become a permanent minority party.
Posted on 5/11/24 at 8:57 pm to Taxing Authority
quote:The man himself on Wm Buckley's TV show (1967)
It probably wouldn't hurt Republicans to read Alynsky's Rules for Radicals. (short). They're going to need them or become a permanent minority party
Posted on 5/11/24 at 9:58 pm to Taxing Authority
quote:I really enjoyed several of his other books but haven’t read the ones on your list.
Kurt Vonnegut
quote:
FA Hayek Road to Serfedom
If you actually read this you’d know he advocates for government environmental protections and welfare for widows and orphans.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 12:42 am to Wednesday
A Shade of Difference
Come Nineveh, Come Tyre
The Promise of Joy
The Throne of Saturn
A God Against the Gods (Actually, this one isn't about American politics, but the allusions abound.)
I guess it's pretty obvious I like Allen Drury political novels.
Come Nineveh, Come Tyre
The Promise of Joy
The Throne of Saturn
A God Against the Gods (Actually, this one isn't about American politics, but the allusions abound.)
I guess it's pretty obvious I like Allen Drury political novels.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 3:30 am to DyeHardDylan
Thomas Sowell
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Posted on 5/12/24 at 5:01 am to Wednesday
Anti-Federalist Papers is the single most important item to read. The Federalist Papers are magnificent, but too much attention has been paid to them with a resulting focus on government activity and less emphasis on restricting government activity and power, which The Anti-Federalists called attention to. There would not be a Bill of Rights without those papers, and because they are not given enough credit and attention, things like the 9th and 10th Amendments have not had the impact they ought to have had.
Side note - the Bill of Rights originally had 12 items. Two did not get ratified. The first to get ratified was our current First Amendment.
Side note - the Bill of Rights originally had 12 items. Two did not get ratified. The first to get ratified was our current First Amendment.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 5:12 am to POTUS2024
Not sure about numbers 2 through 5 (Though I have a book of essays from Christopher Hitchens that would probably be #2 if I could remember the exact title.) but #1 is Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'Rourke.
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