Posted on 12/18/2008 6:37:56 AM PST by fortunate sun
After a review of the Free Home page, I noticed the various links to allied groups, media groups and other interests. Perhaps I didn't look as completely as I should have but conspicuous by it's absence was a Free Republic library or reading list. Long time Conservatives and libertarians may be familiar with the classic works of authors and film-makers but those newer to the movement, may not be. Even those died-in-the-wool may be looking for additional background or may be missing a volume or two from their own personal library.
Nothing more profoundly than The Holy Bible.
Yes, the Holy Bible, and I also read Oswald Chambers’ “My Utmost For His Highest” every day as well (essays on various scriptures dealing with Christian living).
The Bible
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Modern Times
The Bible
Atlas Shrugged
Unintended Consequences
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.
Liberals will use lists like this against us - guess that’s the price of being honest and open.
Who died in the wool?
Hayek, Mencken, Robert Nisbet, WF Buckley, Nozick, Garet Garrett, Paul Johnson...
The Bible
Wild at Heart (John Eldredge)
Waking the Dead (John Eldredge)
Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
The US Constitution (I carry a copy in my pocket)
“Vision of the Annointed” by Thomas Sowell
“Knowledge and Decisions” by Thomas Sowell
“Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl
“The Demoralization of Society” by Gertrude Himmelfarb
“Radical Son” by David Horowitz
“Out of America: a Black Man Confronts Africa” by Keith Richburg
The Bible, every version. Isaac Asimov, Einstein in his own words, speculators online ;) etc...
1984, Pickwick Papers, Animal Farm, The Gulag Archipelago, The Everlasting Man, Bleak House, Brave New World, Crime and Punishment
You raise an interesting point. Perhaps there should be a suggested reading list. In my case:
The Holy Bible
“The Prince” and “The Republic”, both by Machiavelli
“Flatland” by Edwin Abbott Abbott
“The Second World War” in 6 Volumes by Churchill
“The Art of War” by Sun Tsu
as well several Freemasonic books of no interest to non-Masons.
The Bible
Atlas Shrugged
Animal Farm
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (and various other Heinlein books)
“Unconditional Life” by Deepak Chopra.
Walt Whitman
“AA” otherwise known as the “Big Book”.
The Gospels.
Dashiell Hammett’s books, Raymond Chandler’s books. Fiction, yes but the main character has all of the traits of independence, rational thinking and morals that a conservative strives for.
Thanks ... dyed-in-the-wool ...
That is continuity of error. I believe I picked that phrase up from some outdoor writer and never bothered to spell check it.
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
BTTT!
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