[The Shrew]

I went to a small Lutheran school and the book that stands out in my mind is The Bridge at Andau?

It is the only non-fiction book James Mitchener ever wrote. He was in Austria researching one of his books in October of 1956. He went to Andau on the Austrian/Hungarian border and interviewed refugees of the Russian onslaught of Budapest to quell the Hungarian Revolution. It is a fascinating book. It would be very difficult to be a Marxist having read this book - well it worked on me anyway!

Sorry this doesn't fit your criteria but the book is well read and still on my shelf.

Regards,

TS

[chris_in_nj]

I went to Muhlenberg College - a small Lutheran school. Where did you go?

[redhead]

"the book that stands out in my mind is The Bridge at Andau..."

Yes, this one stuck in my mind, too. I was in 5th or 6th grade when I read it, probably too young to get too brainwashed.

The most recent piece of Lefty nastiness that stuck crosswise in my craw was "Fast Food Nation," by Eric Schlosser. What barf. This guy could hardly write a paragraph that didn't have a phrase like "When Ronald Reagan was President..." followed by some fiendish piece of legislation that presumably put all the marbles on the fast food companies' side of the ring. "Under Ronald Reagan..." etc. Sigh... it might have been a good book, but I'll never know, because I couldn't finish it.