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To: LiteKeeper; rdf; Cicero; Van Jenerette
substitutions, rearrangement?
2 posted on 05/30/2003 11:51:35 AM PDT by Remedy
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To: Remedy
If possible, read these in their original languages. Especially Dante. It might be noted that a common thread besides technique such as irony runs through many of these recommended works.
12 posted on 05/30/2003 12:04:37 PM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: Remedy
Atals Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Anthem
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

All by Ayn Rand. They should also consider reading all the works of P.J. O'Rourke.
19 posted on 05/30/2003 12:08:59 PM PDT by LanPB01
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To: Remedy
The Wealth of Nations.
21 posted on 05/30/2003 12:09:34 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Remedy
Where is "It Takes a Village"?
30 posted on 05/30/2003 12:14:29 PM PDT by jporcus
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To: Remedy
SPOTREP
63 posted on 05/30/2003 12:31:56 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: Remedy
They forgot to include "Starship Troopers" by R.A. Heinlein.
73 posted on 05/30/2003 12:39:30 PM PDT by Britton J Wingfield
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To: Remedy
additions. 2.

Witness/Whittaker Chambers
The Way The World Works/Wanniski

79 posted on 05/30/2003 12:45:07 PM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Remedy
all are available online in ebook format. Check www.blackmask.com for ebooks for free.

I would add

The illiad and the oddessy (I just like them)

1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
(it just fits with the EU right now)

Why only 10?
145 posted on 05/30/2003 1:59:22 PM PDT by longtermmemmory
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To: Remedy
A couple more .....

War, Politics and Power : Von Clauswitz
The Art of War: Sun Tzu
The Prince : Nicolo Machiavelli

Applies to business and war as well as politics.

181 posted on 05/30/2003 4:21:36 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
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To: Remedy
Should be read well before college, but Darkness at Noon conveyed the madness of collectivism to me in a way political theory texts could not. It was the talisman that shielded my developing mind from history's bad ideas, and for that, it holds a special place in my heart.
188 posted on 05/30/2003 4:38:51 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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