Worst two books.
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. I had to read this book in 11th grade English. It is absolutely the worst stinking pile of cr@p I have ever attempted to read. All I can remember is that the main character is a spoiled rich kid who goes to Africa and tries to do good but makes people worse off than they were before he intervened.
The next book was for my college American history Class. The professor made us read some biography about Bobby Kennedy, absolutely sickening. The professor had marched with Bobby through the suburbs of Chicago in 1968 when he ran for President. Actually the subject matter for the two books is pretty similar.
This professor was supposed to teach us the history of America since the civil war. Instead we got the history of oppressed people in America from the socialist viewpoint. One of the other books he assigned was A torch to the Enemy. He thought the book described how horrible the United States was in firebombing Japanese cities in WWII. I thought the book was an excellent discussion of bombing civilian targets to break an enemy’s will and ability to fight.
"Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. I had to read this book in 11th grade English. It is absolutely the worst stinking pile of
cr@p I have ever attempted to read. All I can remember is that the main character is a spoiled rich kid who goes to Africa and tries to do good but makes people worse off than they were before he intervened."
I'm not familiar with this book, but your description makes it sound like an accurate indictment of the left!