[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

13 this decade? I’m trying to think of ONE outstanding book written in my lifetime.

[Mr. Jazzy]

This is one of the best books ever written.

“Liberty & Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”

http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Tyranny-Conservative-Mark-Levin/dp/1416562850

If you haven’t read it, you should.

[avg_freeper]

"13 this decade? I’m trying to think of ONE outstanding book written in my lifetime."

Certainly no Principia, Republic, or "Origin of Species" written if that's what you mean.

Then again, major ideas tend not to be disseminated in book form to any great degree, but rather in forgettable soundbites and meaningless slogans.

As if having a permanent record of today's insanity would just be to embarrassing.

[olrtex]

“13 this decade? I’m trying to think of ONE outstanding book written in my lifetime.”

To each his own, but I would put F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom on my list of great books written during my lifetime. George H. Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 is also very good, as is W.W. Rostow’s How It All Began: Origins of the Modern Economy.

You really find none of those books to be outstanding?

[Lancey Howard]

I’m trying to think of ONE outstanding book written in my lifetime.

Then you are not thinking too hard. Mark Levin's books, for starters.

[captbarney]

I don’t know how old you are but the most “outstanding” book of the 20th century is “Witness”

[notaliberal]

Lone Survivor-Marcus Luttrell

One of the best books of the decade. Men who put their lives on the line for your freedom--no other book compares