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October 27, 2003
Righty Blogger's Reading List
I submitted, last week, a list of 20 influential books. Each of these has substantially changed the way I think about things. Oddly enough, the two that have had the most recent effect on my 'conservative' thinking, I neglected to mention. But I suppose it's only fair because I didn't finish either book. They are Hayek's 'Road to Serfdom' which I only read the Reader's Digest version, and Martin Amis' 'Koba the Dread', which I found completely overwhelming. It brought me to tears upon each reading, and I found that I simply couldn't handle it.
The Righty List, compiled by John Hawkins, is rather an LCD affair, with an embarassment of Ayn Rand and C.S. Lewis. I would much prefer to browse the full list and some background. I'll periodically update this post to fill in some details FWIW.
Here's mine, in no order.
- The Examined Life - Robert Nozick
- Ethnic America - Thomas Sowell
- Edge City - Joel Garreau
- American Mythologies - Marshall Blonsky
- The Mind's I - D.R. Hofstadter
- The Black Power Imperative - Theodore Cross
- Modern Manners - PJ ORourke
- Integrity - Stephen L Carter
- Japanese By Spring - Ishmael Reed
- Money - Andrew Hacker
- Cultural Literacy - ED Hirsch
- We Are All Multiculturalists Now - Nathan Glazer
- The American Evasion of Philosophy - Cornel West
- The Fate of the Earth - Jonathan Schell
- Art of War - Sun Tzu
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Faces At The Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell
- Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman - Dick Feynman
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Posted by mbowen at October 27, 2003 09:44 PM
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