Here's a good sign that America is waking up and rediscovering who we are. I checked the list of the top 100 sellers on Amazon.com and found these titles among their bestsellers:
- The Road to Serfdom; this is actually number 1 right now it's a 60-year old book by an Austrian-born economist on the errors of centralizing economic power in government.
- George Washington's Sacred Fire
- The Federalist Papers
- The 5000 Year Leap
- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- The Real George Washington
- Original Intent: The Courts, The Constitution, and Religion
- Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black and White
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Coming Insurrection; this one is a book about insurrectionary anarchism and hypothesized the collapse of capitalism. It describes how anti-captialism movements can gain power. It's good that Americans are reading this and becoming aware of the forces that threaten our way of life.
- Free to Choose: A personal statement; this book advocates for a free market system
- Samuel Adams: A life
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Dang it! I was hoping to see one of my favorite paperbacks on the list.
ReplyDelete"Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century" by Michael Lebowitz
I guess I could order a few more copies and send them to close friends that I would like to sway. It would even bring it up in the bestsellers list!
Ah... Marxism.
Haven't heard of that one. There was another one on there about Obama's ties to Marxists, Communists, and other radical extremists but I didn't make mention of it because it's kind of in a different class. I didn't want to list books that were narrow in scope. However, I'm not doubting the accuracy of many of the accusations the book would make as Obama's ties to Marxists, Communists, and radical extremists is well documented. Shall we begin a list?
ReplyDeleteUrm...I find it rather disconcerting when people read Ayn Rand. But that's just me. Granted, she doesn't beat around the bush, and even I agree with some of her concepts/ideas. But, overall, I still find her rather scary (if extremism is allowed to be considered scary).
ReplyDeleteWhat's scary about Ayn Rand? Granted, I've not read much of her stuff (just Anthem and about one-third of Atlas Shrugged before thesis writing began consuming all of my time), but I like what she writes. I know that her ideas of objectivism were taken a little to the extreme but who am I to find fault with a woman who grew up in communist Russia for having a difficult time including God in her theories? She was a die-hard capitalist and treasured freedom. Again, just about what you'd expect from a person growing up in communist Russia. Anthem is a fabulous little book.
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