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VANITY... Books That Have Influenced You

Posted on 02/26/2006 8:17:27 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear

What books have influenced your political, religious, or historical reasoning?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: books; history; lists; philosophy; politics; religion
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1 posted on 02/26/2006 8:17:29 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Heinlein's early novels.


2 posted on 02/26/2006 8:20:58 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Holy Bible


3 posted on 02/26/2006 8:22:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Kennedy, the man and the Myth.


4 posted on 02/26/2006 8:23:00 PM PST by Waco
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Bible,,,,,,,


5 posted on 02/26/2006 8:25:18 PM PST by 911 still fresh for this NYer ( A great leader)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis


6 posted on 02/26/2006 8:26:04 PM PST by Archangel86
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Free To Choose - Milton Friedman

The Road to Serfdom - Friederich Hayek

Homage to Catalonia

1984

Animal Farm

Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead

The Torah

Declaration of Independence


7 posted on 02/26/2006 8:26:57 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Prophet Muhammed, Piss Be Upon Him)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
The Bible.

I just finished Natan Sharansky's "The Case for Democracy." Very powerful.

"Tower of Babel," about the history of the U.N. by Dore Gold (former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N.)

Almost anything by C.S. Lewis.

"Pearls before Swine" Comic Collections.
8 posted on 02/26/2006 8:27:35 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Animal Farm, 1984, Anthem

Danielson Famile rocks, by the way


9 posted on 02/26/2006 8:27:55 PM PST by Toto_for_breakfast
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To: Minus_The_Bear

All of Madeleine L'Engle's writings, especially the Crosswicks Trilogy and "A ing of Endless Light".


10 posted on 02/26/2006 8:27:57 PM PST by Ike (Show solidarity with the Iraqis and end voter fraud: enact "blue finger" legislation!)
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Sorry - "A Ring of Endless Light"!


11 posted on 02/26/2006 8:28:43 PM PST by Ike (Show solidarity with the Iraqis and end voter fraud: enact "blue finger" legislation!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Lots of them.
Conscience of a Conservative
Closing of the American Mind and The Western Canon by Bloom
Invisible Man by Ellison
And Still We Rise by Miles Corwin
William Manchester's book-forgot the title-of his four years in the Marines during WW2.
Richard Halliburton's travel books back when I was in Seventh Grade
Divided Soul by David Ritz(Marvin Gaye Bio)


12 posted on 02/26/2006 8:29:05 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: Archangel86

Add that Lewis classic to my list!


13 posted on 02/26/2006 8:29:36 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Syme's "The Roman Revolution"


14 posted on 02/26/2006 8:29:43 PM PST by LiveBait
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Many of the ones already mentioned, but I'll add 'Confessions of St. Augustine.'


15 posted on 02/26/2006 8:29:56 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

"From the Earth to the Moon" - Jules Verne. As a sixth grader, this helped to jump start my interest in science and the promise of human achievement.


16 posted on 02/26/2006 8:31:07 PM PST by Socratic (Tell the libs: Beating a dead horse is not the same as tenderizing a steak.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Ayn Rand's Anthem was the first "important" book I remember reading and rocking my mind.
17 posted on 02/26/2006 8:31:58 PM PST by krb (ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

That would have to be Witness.


18 posted on 02/26/2006 8:33:27 PM PST by jonathonandjennifer
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Bible


19 posted on 02/26/2006 8:34:04 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Riverman94610

That would be "Goodbye Darkness".

A great book, indeed.


20 posted on 02/26/2006 8:34:29 PM PST by Zman516 ("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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