Powered by Outside

politics: the reading list

PB Forum :: Social / Political Issues
politics: the reading list

 Post Message | Latest Comment
Author Message
flag crs-one
Posted: Jan 28, 2008 at 15:48 Quote
well i thought that, with the u.s. and religion debates going down, people would want to maybe learn some stuff about politics...wow i butchered that sentence!

so here's my contribution of recommended political books, please add some of your own.

Malcolm X - Autobiography.
this is the only document that has made me take religion seriously at all. killer book

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
really self-explanatory...the definitive book on political science.

The Dark Side of Camelot - Seymour M. Hersh
really interesting book about JFK

The Kennedys and Cuba: the declassified documentary history. - Mark J. White
crazy....reading this in conjunction with Hersh will leave you with no confidence whatsoever in the United States.
flag gibson19
Posted: Jan 29, 2008 at 15:11 Quote
Culture Warrior by Bill O'rielly

It obviously has a right wing spin on it... but it gives great insight into where America (and the whole country for that matter) is going... It exposes the left wing biased media among other things
flag csitka
O+ FL
Posted: Jan 30, 2008 at 11:15 Quote
1984 my favorite book of all time
flag gibson19
Posted: Jan 30, 2008 at 16:16 Quote
carnell wrote:
1984 my favorite book of all time

I couldn't stand it... I was supposed to read it in grade 11 but only got a couple paragraphs in... Then I had to read it again in grade 12 and it was read out loud by a class full of retards so It took a whole month... It ruined any chance I had of enjoying that book.
flag crs-one
Posted: Jan 30, 2008 at 16:55 Quote
few more:

lies my teacher told me - james w. loewen
hoooollllyyy crap....reading this as a canadian, f*cking stunned that the u.s. would stand for this shit.

freakonomics - stephen dubner & steven levitt
pretty interesting look at a bunch of societal issues
flag t3rry
Posted: Jan 31, 2008 at 21:17 Quote
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - it's similar to 1984.
flag gibson19
Posted: Feb 1, 2008 at 6:39 Quote
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

its about government oppression
flag laurie1
Posted: Feb 1, 2008 at 22:03 Quote
I just finished Machiavelli's The Prince for about the third time but I really like Benjamin R. Barbers' books, Jihad Vs. McWorld and Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy. However, a lot of his other books are very well written and I have a mean (got an A+ on it in university) essay to go along with Fear's Empire.
flag jrocksdh
Posted: Mar 19, 2020 at 8:05 Quote
the road to serfdom;
common sense;
rules for radicals;
any and all of mark levin;
the federalist papers;
flag Matt115lamb
Posted: Apr 30, 2020 at 0:11 Quote
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Politics for dummies - Ann Delaney
flag jrocksdh
Posted: Sep 16, 2020 at 10:58 Quote
Great source of essays re: current events
https://newdiscourses.com/
  • Previous Page
  • Next Page

 


Copyright © 2000 - 2026. Pinkbike.com. All rights reserved.
dv56 0.007897
Mobile Version of Website