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Homesick Tiger 
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Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
10438 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:52 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Reader's Digest. I have a short attention span. Just ask the wife. 
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Bunsbert Montcroff 
Arizona Fan
Phoenix AZ
Member since Jan 2008
4030 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:07 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
hmm...probably schleiermacher's on religion.
anything and everything by peirce, james, dewey, rorty, and the american pragmatists.
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catholictigerfan
LSU Fan
Member since Oct 2009
27636 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:08 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
not sure if I can pin down one book, I would say people would have had more of an influence then books.
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Rex
LSU Fan
Here, there, and nowhere
Member since Sep 2004
48197 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:10 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
The Bible. It taught me that people for emotional reasons will profess belief in things they know to be not true.
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FCP
Member since Sep 2010
755 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:27 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Philosophically: Bible, of course.
Politically: 1984.
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LeMarteau
LSU Fan
Hoover, AL (B.R. native)
Member since Mar 2008
920 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:34 am to AlaTiger)
The Bible
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TigerRad
LSU Fan
Columbia, SC
Member since Jan 2007
3259 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:39 am to LeMarteau)
^should be required reading for everyone on this board and in every high school and university IMO
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VerlanderBEAST 
Michigan Fan
Member since Dec 2011
8548 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:41 am to TigerRad)
This book had the opposite effect and reaffirmed my political beliefs,
and this one not so much political but philosophically had an impact on me,
This post was edited on 11/12 at 8:47 am
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Blue Velvet 
Colorado State Fan
Venice, LA
Member since Nov 2009
12739 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:18 am to kingbob)
quote:
the "Golden Rule"
Boooooooooo!!!!
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ragacamps
LSU Fan
Member since Jan 2011
1850 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:38 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Two Treaties of Government.
And
Applied Economics or anything written by Sowell
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Zach
LSU Fan
Member since May 2005
55842 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:50 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
The Bell Curve ... Murray and Hernstein
Animal Liberation... Peter Singer
Illiberal Education.. Danesh DeSouza
America's 30 Years War ... Balint Vazsouyi
Free to Choose .. Milton Friedman
Why Govt Doesn't Work .. Harry Browne
Treason ... Ann Coulter
And, the most fun to read books on society:
The History of White People in America ..Martin Mull
Bobos in Paradise ... David Brooks
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SilverSpurs13
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Aug 2011
1017 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:53 am to white perch)
quote:
To bad the majority of parents no longer read to their children and all they get is TV now.
Dr. Seuss is broadcast on LPB/PBS during the day
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sugar71 
UCLA Fan
baton rouge
Member since Jun 2012
575 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 1:03 pm to SilverSpurs13)
The Communist Manifesto
The Holy Quran
Mau Mau & Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt
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RuLSU 
Rutgers Fan
New Jersey
Member since Nov 2007
887 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/12/12 at 1:25 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
^ The portion in this novel about "Napoleon never commanded an army" fundamentally changed my thinking on the nature of government and society.
Others :
Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Please note - while I read all of these, and they all had a profound impact on my thinking, I did not agree with every point each author was trying to make.
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KK
LSU Fan
US
Member since Nov 2010
4 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:23 am to RuLSU)
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman
LINK
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themunch
LSU Fan
USA
Member since Jan 2007
5635 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:32 am to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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