2012???? Isn’t it a little early? My book, “A Patriot’s History of the Modern World to 1945” hasn’t even come out yet (Oct. 11) so how can anyone vote for it?
Oddly enough I felt compelled to put The Joy of Cooking in for both the general effect and for me personally. Truthfully that really has been the universal cookbook for generations of people.
For the book to be added, I submitted Free to Choose by Milton Friedman.
I did!
On that list, and of the entire list I thought that the most influential on our society was Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” about the Chicago Stockyards. That book was influential in the creation of the FDA IIRC.
“The Institutes of Christian Religion” by John Calvin
Adam Smith “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”
Adam Smith “The Wealth of Nations”
Are not on the list but all had profound influence on the founders of this nation. To read them it's a good idea to have a good hard copy (non-malulable) dictionary at hand as the education level in those days was far higher than today, without public schools.
Where is the Bible?
The ever-salacious Starr Report has to make it in there somewhere.
There can’t possibly be any question or doubt about it - the books that have most shaped 2012, and the past four years, are “Das Kapital” by Marx, and “The Communist Manifesto” for their influence on the White House.
Third place goes to Mao’s “Little Red Book” for inspiring the OWS.
Meanwhile, the periodical that has most reflected the times in which we’re living is Mad Magazine. Alfred E. Neuman was way ahead of his era.