(newest at top, with any comments/information from the recommender)
Loisirene:
1. The 5000 Year Leap: Principles of Freedom 101, by W. Cleon Skousen -- excellent accompaniment to the Constitution; an easy, quick read which has two parts: Part 1, "Structuring a government with all the power in the people"; Part 2, "The Founders basic principles." The book is an excellent insight into what guided the Founding Fathers while writing the Constitution.
2. The American Patriot's Almanac, by Wm. J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb
3. The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
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Greg:
Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict, by Obadiah Shoher; Google banned this site (http://www.samsonblinded.org/service/download.htm) from the advertising program. Amazon deleted all reviews to stop the discussion. We need your help to bring Shoher's message. Tell your friends. Link to us. Text on this site is adapted and abridged. Please download the book. There's plenty of food for thought in this book, which, wrongheaded or not, is both open and fearless. Kirkus Discoveries. In memory of Avraham Stern who resurrected the concept of reciprocal violence
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Ayad:
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity, by Samuel Huntington
Shakespeare: Inventing the Human, by Harold Bloom
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Chanan:
Search for Cosmic Justice, by Thomas Sowell
Straight Talk About Criminals, by Stanton Samenow; & his Inside the Criminal Mind
The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson
Bruce Catton’s biography of Ulysses S. Grant
The Gathering Storm, by Winston Churchill
Empire, by Orson Scott Card
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Marxism: Philosophy and Economics, by Thomas Sowell
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Matt (Jan. 26, 2009):
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
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Dianne (Jan. 25, 2009):
Letters to a Young Conservative, by Dinesh D'Souza
Countdown to Terror, by Kurt Wheldon
The Anti-Federalist Papers
American The Last Best Hope #1 and #2, by Bill Bennett
1776, by McCullough
John Adams,
The Middle East, by Bernard Lewis (1996, with re-issues)
Moment of Truth in Iraq, by Michael Yon
The End of Racism, by Dinesh D'Souza
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidty, by John Stossel
Freakonomics, by Levitt, Dubner
Invisible Acts of Power, by Myss
The Essential Thomas Jefferson, edited by John G. Hunt
All the Laws But One, by Rehnquist
The Terrorist Watch, by Kessler
When Every Moment Counts, by Bill Frist
Why Terrorism Works, by Alan Dershowitz
Willful Blindness, by McCarthy
War and Decision, by Feith
State of War, by James Risen
Rewriting History, by Dick Morris
Why the Jews? by Dennis Prager
It's My Party, Too, by Christie Todd Whitman
Surrender is Not an Option, by John Bolton
Making War to Keep Peace, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Things That Matter Most, by Cal Thomas
Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis
Holy War Inc., by Peter Bergen
The Enemy at Home, by Dinesh D'Souza
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, by Bernard Lewis (2001, with re-issues)
One of my favorite and most eye-opening books on what it means to be an American is "The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin." A book I would love to read again.
Stephen Hayes book called "Cheney" was fantastic. Dick Cheney is a man to be admired, not villified.
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Ryan (Jan. 25, 2009):
documentary Homegrown Jihad: Terrorist Camps Around the U.S., by Christian Action Network (Ryan Mauro) – pretty incredible – should watch
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Ayad:
Bush vs. the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror, by Laurie Mylroie (a friend of mine, with whom I’ve worked, extensively)
her book on the ’93 World Trade Center bombing, and Saddam’s probable sponsorship
something, especially a good, well-researched novel, about the period when the Roman empire adopted Christianity as the state religion, and the people started…adopting…to this new way of looking at the world – going from…pagan worship…or whatever/however they believed, before, to worshipping on god, believing in Jesus…, etc.
All Quiet on the Western Front
William Shirer’s books on Nazi Germany and the fall of France
The Human Factor, by Ishamel Jones, about our dysfunctional CIA
Joseph Conrad’s books
George Orwell’s books
Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies
Chernow’s biographies – on John D. Rockefeller; Alexander Hamilton
something by or about James Madison – I have one, about him and his wife called A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
My Antonia, by Willa Cather
Harold Bloom’s books
Babette’s Feast, by Isak Dinesen
Delicate Prey, by Paul Bowles
Herodotus
Eric Sevareid’s Not So Wild a Dream
Edmund S. Morgan
James Morris
something on the history and decline of the Spanish empire & its dependence on gold and silver, and what that did to them
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Harvey (Jan. 24, 2009):
1. The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright -- events leading to 9/11 attacks. Hugh Hewitt covered it at length, with the author. NY Times said "marvelous." Fascinating.
2. Miracle at Philadelphia by Katherine Drinker Bowen. Fictional account of Constitutional Convention.
3. Marx in 45 Minutes.
4. Myths and Facts. A guide to Arab-Israeli Conflict. Mitchell G. Bard.Ph.D.AICE. Available online at jewishVirtualLibrary.org.
5. Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine. Samuel Katz. History of Israel, Zionism, building of the state, and wars to 1972.
6. From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine, by Joan Peters -- on immigration into British Mandate. true figures for Arab population.
7. America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, by Mark Steyn
8. Conscience of a Conservative, by Barry Goldwater
The Reagan Diaries, by Ronald Reagan; & his An American Life; and others
The Reagan I Knew, by William F. Buckley, Jr.; & his God and Man At Yale; and others
I think Buchanan's recent books on dire effects of immigration sound a real warning. The problem is that he's a lover of Franco, an apologist for Hitler and obsessed with the (evil) Jews. As Buckley said, roughly, I cannot clear him of charge of anti-Semitism.
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Marilyn (Jan. 24, 2009):
THE MURDERERS AMONG US, THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, EDITED BY JOSEPH WECHSBERG; SIMON WIESENTHAL'S FIRST BOOK AND THE BEST OF ANY OF THE BOOKS HE WROTE. YOU'LL GET TO KNOW THINGS YOU NEVER EVER KNEW; IT IS JUST EXTRAORDINARY!! I met Simon.
IN MY BROTHER'S IMAGE, BY EUGENE L. POGANY -- TRUE story of twin brothers who were born in Hungary of Jewish parents, but raised as devout Catholic converts until after WW2. Then separated by faith after the Holocaust. You will never guess in a million years what this book is about. It is excellent.
SUITE FRANCAISE, IRENE NEMIROVSKY This story was hidden and unknown for 64 years. REMARKABLE STORY. NATIONAL BESTSELLER
MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING, VIKTOR E. FRANKL -- "ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS OF OUR TIME"
Learn about the life of one of THE GREATEST SINGER, PHILOSOPHER, POET, BRILLIANT...YES!!, CHARISMATIC, AND OBSESSED SEEKER WHO REJECTED AUTHORITY IN ANY FORM. what a mind!!! The following is the title and it is the only book on JIM MORRISON THAT IS THE BEST WRITTEN ON HIS LIFE, none OF THE OTHER BOOKS ARE. It's a pity he died so young.
NO ONE HERE GETS OUT ALIVE, JERRY HOPKINS AND DANNY SUGERMAN
THE SILENT TWINS, MARJORIE WALLACE A REMARKABLE AND TRAGIC STORY IT’S ONE BOOK LIKE NO OTHER WRITTEN EVER!!! BOOKS OPEN YOUR MIND TO THE UNKNOWN SUBJECTS YOU WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT IS ALL AROUND US IN OUR WORLD OF DAILY LIVING.
THIS IS MY GOD......HERMAN WOUK. REMARKABLE.......VIVID, PASSIONATE, HIGHLY READABLE. answers MANY QUESTIONS, EXPLAINS TO YOU AND IS EASY READING. (JEWISH FAITH) Our laws of the US. was taken from the TALMUD. IT IS PROBABLY OUT OF PRINT, CAN PICK IT UP FOR VERY LITTLE MONEY.
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Marilyn:
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway -- POWERFUL!!
Laura BUSH, BY RONALD KESSLER, very good; came out last year
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Ayad:
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville – in full or abridged
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain; & Puddin’ Head Wilson; & others
Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald
look on Amazon, and see which books have the highest ratings
The Federalist Papers
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; & his Tender Is the Night
Russian classics -- by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol
Danielle Steele
The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice since 1967, by Fouad Ajami (1981, with re-issues); & his The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq (2006); & Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey (1998)
The Arab Mind, by Raphael Patai (1973, with re-issues)
The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs, by David Pryce-Jones (1989, with re-issues)
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
The Bible – particular books of the New and Old Testaments
any Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s sonnets
Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, by Eric Berne
The King Must Die, by Mary Renault (The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens. He emerges from these pages as a clearly defined personality; brave, aggressive and quick. The core of the story is Theseus' Cretan adventure.)
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series
The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant
The Discoverers, by Daniel Boorstin; & his The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination; The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World; The Americans (The Colonial Experience; The Democratic Experience; The National Experience)
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf; or others
The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman; & her A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century; The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; The March of Folly; From Troy to Vietnam
The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek
Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
primer, survey on U.S. history
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Michael:
Herman Wouk’s non-fiction sequel
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Ayad:
James Q. Wilson, on American values, history
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Michael:
Robert Kaplan’s books, including Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (2008)
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Marilyn (Jan. 22, 2009):
"THE LAST EMPEROR", by Arnold C, Brackman (I liked and is so interesting)
BLACK WHITE AND JEWISH.
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Marilyn (Jan. 21, 2009):
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe, by Mark Mazower (726 pp)
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Loisirene & Karl (Jan. 21, 2009):
Steven Emerson American Jihad The Terrorists Living Among Us (he also has other books)
Howard Linett, Living with terrorism survival lessons from the streets of Jerusalem (may not be easy to obtain)
Paul Sperry, Infiltration how Muslims spies and subversives have penetrated Washington
Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (2000, with re-issues) -- any of his books would be good to discuss; & Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One (2004, with re-issues)
Wm. J Bennett, America the last best Hope vols 1 and 2
Laurent Maurwiec , Prince of darkness the Saudi assault on the west
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The cage virgin an emancipation proclamation for women and Islam
Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate -- a survivor of Islamic terror warns America (she has a new book out too)
Daniel Pipes’s Militant Islam Reaches America (2002)
Melanie Phillips’s Londonistan
Michael Savage, Liberalism is a mental disorder Savage Solutions (some of his other books are hilarious; though I don't know how appropriate for a group discussion)
Robert J. Allison, The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim world 1776-1815
Bat Ye-or Eurabia The Euro-Arab axis
Edwin Meese III (ed.), The Hertiage guide to the Constitution (this would probably take several sessions to fully go through)
The Forgotten Man, Amity Shales (about FDR & the depression)
Fleeced, by Dick Morris
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
5000 Year Leap (mentioned on radio talk shows)
Karl Marx, Economic & philosophical manuscripts (one copy in library. I wanted to read about KM since socialism & communism are forms of government I know little & we are headed in this direction)
Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism (easy to understand explanation of this form of government & others)
Novels: any Vince Flynn or David Baldacci
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Marilyn (Jan. 20, 2009):
"THE NIGHTINGALE SONG": great book for all, on the top 5 Generals OF THE US; top-seller
“THE CHILDREN," BY CHARITY BLACKSTOCK.. EXCELLENT BOOK; I KNEW THE AUTHOR, SHE LIVED IN ENGLAND.
FIVE YEARS TO FREEDOM, A TRUE STORY OF A VIETNAM POW. BY JAMES N. ROWE.
"OUR MAN IN DAMASCUS: ELIE COHN” BY ELI BEN-HANAN -- excellent book, true story of the greatest spy
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Marilyn (Jan. 16, 2009):
on Israel, from 2008 (by Moshe Phillips)
The Aaronsohn Saga, by Shmuel Katz
The Bielski Brothers, by Peter Duffy
The First Tithe, by Dr. Israel Eldad
Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine, by Jonathan Schanzer
Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad, by Caroline Glick
Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, by Robert Spencer (2008)
Beverly (Jan. 12, 2009):
Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush, by Thomas Woods and Kevin Gutzman (2008)
The Bill of Rights: A User’s Guide, by Linda Monk (2004); & her The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution (2004)
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Ayad (January 2009):
U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights
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Dan (October 2008):
The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation, by Michael Medved (2008)
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