Reading List
Education doesn’t end with graduation: it only begins. This page is about my efforts at “continuing education.” As I finish these, I’ll post short blog reviews and add them to the Recommended Reading list on the home page…if I end up recommending them.
First, a list of the books sitting on my bookshelf that I need to read:
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. Another Glenn Beck recommendation. I have vacillated between calling Obama fascist or communist but in practice they’re the same thing. FA Hayek made that very clear. I’ll be interested to learn what Goldberg has to say.
Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin. Just released and number 1 already on Amazon. I’ve seen her on Glenn Beck and read a bit on her blog. Exposing the Chicago way and how Obama has brought it to Washington.
The 5000 Year Leap: The 28 Great Ideas that Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen. Another of the Glenn Beck-recommended books. This is actually a 1981 book. Looks suitable to be a textbook in a course on politics or political philosophy. Which explains why 1) my wife didn’t make it past p. 70 and 2) I’m eager to read it.
Taking America Back by Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily. I like what I read on WorldNetDaily and since he’s the founder and publisher, I thought this might be a good read.
Then, some books I need to buy before I can read them. Using the library just doesn’t work for me: I can’t predict how long it’s going to be before I can get to it.
Amazon must love me. I’m so far ahead on books there’s nothing on the “need to buy” list.
Several of my books have been loaned out. I’m happy to become a conservative lending library. Just email me and we’ll work something out.
Other reading lists:
Colorado Sen Schultheis’ Conservative Reading List
I have the same three books (and more) sitting on my shelf waiting for me to have time to read them.
I just finished _Culture of Corruption_, and this week I picked up _The Shadow Party_ at the Jefferson County library.
Finished “Catastrophe” on the plane on the way in to DC. It was OK but a very current book–the kind that if you’re going to read it you ought to read it soon or else it will become stale.
Still, it was written in April and Morris’ insights remain valid today.
I had also gotten half-way through Pestritto’s book on a previous trip and that’s next up tomorrow. Meanwhile a classmate showed me an essay by Pestritto that pretty much tells me what I wanted to know from the book. Wish I’d seen that first…