Summer Reading
The most important decision I made in the last 5 years was to start reading again. If you aren't reading a book every month, you aren't really living.
Here are 5 books for the summer that I recommend to every serious human being:
5) Napoleon and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo---And The Great Commanders Who Fought It
4) Liberty and Tyranny (By: Mark Levin...catch this great interview Mark did with Rush Limbaugh about his fantastic new book)
3) Atlas Shrugged (By: Ayn Rand...an incredible novel that will feel eerily familiar to 2009 America)
2) Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (By: Dr. Jay Richards...great interview with the book's author here.)
1) Heretics (By: G.K. Chesterton...read it!)
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July 2nd, 2009 - 19:27
This is quite a list, RJ. I've read Atlas Shrugged (And highly recommend it), but the others I am looking forward to reading. Thanks for the suggestions.
July 2nd, 2009 - 19:39
Hey, I found your site on Acton's blog and LOVE that you put a reading list on here! People, read these books!
I have never read Heretics, but after your quotes from it in your Acton piece I absolutely will.
Thanks!
July 2nd, 2009 - 20:59
Moeller, what did you think of Levin's book? I loved it and cannot for the life of me understand why more people are not reading/talking about this book!
July 2nd, 2009 - 23:17
Glad you guys liked the books I've recommended.
Anonymous, Levin's book is outstanding and although I agree more should read it, it was on the best seller's list for a long time and still doing well in sales. But I hear you…its a fantastic read and more people NEED to get their hands on "Liberty and Tyranny". It explains in plain and simple English what the traditional ideas/values/principles of this country are.
Thanks again guys.
July 9th, 2009 - 23:20
Thank you for being the first person I know of to read my blog. I have not read "Liberty & Tyranny," but I do know that Mark Levin supports both wars and torture (or "enhanced interrogation techniques," which is also what the Nazis called it – not kidding). I see war (especially unconstitutional wars of empire) as the most detrimental thing in the world to liberty. The United States has essentially been in a state of perpetual war since 1898, which is one of the reasons we are so in debt. I look at torture as the most inhumane, depraved thing ever concocted by man. Please take a second look at Mr. Levin, and the definition of conservatism. Also, I think you would be interested to look up Ronald Reagan's budget deficits.