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What Are You Reading? - My Quarterly Survey
3/29/11 | MplsSteve

Posted on 03/29/2011 9:52:18 AM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi everyone! It's time again for my "What Are You Reading?" thread.

As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read of those of us on the Internet. I like to find out what all of you are reading these days.

It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY Times best seller, a classic work of fiction, a trashy pulp novel. In short, it can be anything.

However, please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". it became really unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm about 15% of the way thru "Henry Clay: The Essential American" by David & Jeanne Heidler. Many books have been written on Henry Clay but this one seems to be the most comprehensive. At times, the authors can be a little long-winded - but all in all, it's a good book about one of the giants of the early 19th Century.

Well, what are YOU reading?


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bestsellers; bookclub; bookreview; books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages; readinglist
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To: MplsSteve
I looked into the new biography, J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski.

Also, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White, by Daniel J. Sharfstein.

And Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber.

All three are worth a look.

241 posted on 04/06/2011 4:29:35 PM PDT by x
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To: Billthedrill

They definitely miss the mark with me as I read very little fiction especially modern. I read lots of women’s Civil War diaries, cookbooks, history, and politics. I am a quick reader (speed reading in college) and my ISI and Amazon accounts get a workout weekly. My husband jokes I keep the UPS driver in his job.

Right now I am reading 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor by Benjamin Wiker.
Democracy in America and The Federalist Papers are both on the must read list. I have read both of those in the past and am sure I will read them again. :)

I’m also reading The Bible (St John and Psalms) and cooking my way through Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen, just started it yesterday. I am waiting for Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War, by a Lady of Virginia, Judith W. McGuire to arrive.


242 posted on 04/06/2011 5:02:28 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: MplsSteve

Horizon.


243 posted on 04/06/2011 5:06:35 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: bannie
Everything I can get my hands on about the westward migration...especially before the ‘49er’s—and everything I can find about Bodie.

A must read for anybody into CA history.


244 posted on 04/16/2011 8:01:30 PM PDT by umgud
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To: MplsSteve

“Triumph of Conservatism” by Gabriel Kolko. It’s not quite what it sounds. Kolko is a Marxist historian who (while completely misunderstanding what it means to be conservative) argues that the Progressive movement was hardly antibusiness but was actually a movement by big business to hinder competition. I’m finding it interesting because I’ve always been of the opinion that corporatism is just the flipside of socialism and Kolko seems to confirm that. Really, only competitive markets can work.

I also just finished “The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came To America”by Peter Drucker. Drucker is often referred to as the father of modern management science and has had such honors as getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from GWB. This book is particularly interesting not only because it is one of his lesser cited works but it takes a very interesting view of Socialist thought in America. Although a little outdated I’d argue much of it is still relevant today. Essentially Drucker argues that taking the formal definition of socialism- worker control over the means of production- the United States through employee pension funds, starting at GM, quickly became the most socialist country in history.

I guess lately my focus has been on economic theory (I also re-read Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy recently) perhaps in hope we can move beyond the current system we have now which isn’t truly capitalist and towards more of capitalist system free of both statism and corporatism.


245 posted on 04/28/2011 6:14:24 AM PDT by wrhssaxensemble (Christie-West/Christie-Rubio 2012)
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To: fredhead

How is the Hunley book? That really was a fascinating ship. Had to do a report about it years ago in high school. It’s incredible to think the sub was actually designed to drill a hole in the side of ships...


246 posted on 04/28/2011 6:20:29 AM PDT by wrhssaxensemble (Christie-West/Christie-Rubio 2012)
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To: wrhssaxensemble

It’s kind of dry. I put it down when I received the copy I ordered of Patton: Ordeal and Triumph.

Patton is one of my favorite historical characters, along with Stonewall Jackson, Lee, Halsey, MacArthur, and Chesty Puller.


247 posted on 04/28/2011 10:27:41 AM PDT by fredhead (Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
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