What are your Top 5 books about American Politics?

Al-Qaeda R US
Why we love the USSR
Cuba Democracy for Dummies
How to aim a missile
Trans Gender and You

To name a few

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Treason, Ann Coulter (even tho she can be a total C U next Tuesday, she’s a gifted writer and truly encapsulates how fricking awful communists are)

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Not only is it a great, concise writing style but she has extensive end notes that document every point.

One book that might be hard to find is 'Why Govt Doesn't Work' by Harry Browne.
He ran for President as the Libertarian candidate and it's a great explanation of why a govt agency can't run anything efficiently.

Huey Long by T. Harry Williams

A Team of Rivals
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No Ordinary Time
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
and throw in The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by her

The David McCollough books
Truman
John Adams

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Liberty & Tyranny, Levin (a great Cliff notes of 1&2, which I read in the fetal position after the Obaminaton was re-elected)

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Yup. After the re-election of the Kenyan we all sorta knew the year became 1936-ish, Germany (although the Manchurian Bamster Inc are still just puppets of his/their overlords.)

I once read the usual contemporary observers' political books (Pat Buchanan, Rush, Emmett Tyrrell) until discovering they only barely scraped the surface -- especially Rush.

Still the classics remain worthy. Imagine reading just ONE book (Benjamin Wiker) to read the following 15 classics? Sure its cheating a bit - Wiker provides his version of cliff notes and overview, but includes the meat and essence of each book. And they are all very good "political" books / authors. (yes, the Federalist Papers are there):

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The ten books are:

Aristotle's Politics

Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton

The New Science of Politics, by Eric Voegelin

The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis

Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke

Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (inspirational)

The Federalist Papers

The Anti-Federalists

The Servile State, by Hilaire Belloc

The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek

And the four not to be missed (and one impostor) are:

The Tempest, by William Shakespeare (a surprise)

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien (another surprise)

The Jerusalem Bible (solid)

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (the fake "conservative" Author and book)

1920 The Year of the Six Presidents: David Pietrusza - Amazon.com

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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.

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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 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

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)

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.

Just from my library:



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I’ve not seen it posted,

The Creature of Jekyll Island
By
Edward Griffin

It’s about the scumbags responsible for starting the federal reserve and how they did it. Really hits on a lot more than that and just shows you how far back the corruption of our government goes.