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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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02/26/2006 8:20:58 PM PST
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Mr. Mojo
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02/26/2006 8:22:07 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Minus_The_Bear
Kennedy, the man and the Myth.
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02/26/2006 8:23:00 PM PST
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Waco
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Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
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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
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02/26/2006 8:26:57 PM PST
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Uncle Miltie
(The Prophet Muhammed, Piss Be Upon Him)
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.
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02/26/2006 8:27:35 PM PST
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Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Minus_The_Bear
Animal Farm, 1984, Anthem
Danielson Famile rocks, by the way
To: Minus_The_Bear
All of Madeleine L'Engle's writings, especially the Crosswicks Trilogy and "A ing of Endless Light".
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02/26/2006 8:27:57 PM PST
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Ike
(Show solidarity with the Iraqis and end voter fraud: enact "blue finger" legislation!)
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Sorry - "A Ring of Endless Light"!
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02/26/2006 8:28:43 PM PST
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Ike
(Show solidarity with the Iraqis and end voter fraud: enact "blue finger" legislation!)
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)
To: Archangel86
Add that Lewis classic to my list!
To: Minus_The_Bear
Syme's "The Roman Revolution"
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posted on
02/26/2006 8:29:43 PM PST
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LiveBait
To: Minus_The_Bear
Many of the ones already mentioned, but I'll add 'Confessions of St. Augustine.'
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02/26/2006 8:29:56 PM PST
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HitmanLV
(Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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.
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02/26/2006 8:31:07 PM PST
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Socratic
(Tell the libs: Beating a dead horse is not the same as tenderizing a steak.)
To: Minus_The_Bear
Ayn Rand's Anthem was the first "important" book I remember reading and rocking my mind.
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02/26/2006 8:31:58 PM PST
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krb
(ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
To: Minus_The_Bear
That would have to be Witness.
To: Minus_The_Bear
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02/26/2006 8:34:04 PM PST
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Tribune7
To: Riverman94610
That would be "Goodbye Darkness".
A great book, indeed.
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02/26/2006 8:34:29 PM PST
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Zman516
("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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