Book recommendations for Natalie.

[JoshLowry]

Natalie is reading Ann Coulter's "Slander" *facepalm*

Please recommend her some good books.

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[heavenlyboy34]

Natalie is reading Ann Coulter's "Slander" *facepalm*

Please recommend her some good books.

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Any particular subject? :confused:

[danberkeley]

Ann Coulter? Might as well read Confessions of a Shopoholic.

[Chieftain1776]

Um, I guess she should start with the Liberty Books (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=129762)section of RPF. Minus the 9/11 truther stuff (why is that in there? at least separate it into a conspiracies section).

I've recently finished bestselling (for an academic book) Myth of the Rational Voter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter:_Why_Democracies_Ch oose_Bad_Policies) by anarcho capitalist Bryan Caplan and loved it. Shows how Americans more or less want the the government policies they have.

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of American Consensus was a great movement history that showed how conservative "cranks" took over the Republican Party. Written by a liberal but pretty fair except for going a little overboard on the influence of racism imo.

Liberal Fascism by National Review writer Jonah Goldberg...really creepy stuff.

That said... I too am tempted to read Coulter's latest book Guilty even though I'm sure my time would be better spent elsewhere.

[The_Orlonater]

Economics in One Lesson
How Capitalism Saved America
The Case Against the Fed

[idiom]

Words that Work, Frank Luntz.

Learn the Bible in 24 hours, Chuck Missler (audio book torrent is prolly best for this one).

[Young Paleocon]

Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield

[brandon]

Economics in one lesson

[Unspun]

Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism by Sean Hannity.

[nobody's_hero]

"Leadership" by Rudolph Giuliani.

[Cowlesy]

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

[Young Paleocon]

The Anti-Capitalist Mentality, Mises
The Law, Frederic Bastiat
The Road to Serfdom, Hayek

[torchbearer]

If she is ready to get her mind blown and expanded... and perhaps have a few blinders removed... tell her to tackle this reading list:

Emile Durkheim (anomie)
Erving Goffman (presentation of self)

George Herbert Mead (The Genesis of the Self and Social Control)
Margaret Mead (Human Nature and the Power of Culture)

Robert Merton (Manifest and Latent Functions)
Charles Wright Mills (Power Elite)

Max Weber (Bureaucracy)
Howard Becker (drugs, what are they?)
Howard Becker (the new media)



the list should be read as:

Author (subject and/or title)

[JoshLowry]

I should do more reading myself. I mainly limit myself to three sentence posts on these forums.

Monthly book club anyone?

[Conza88]

That depends what she's interested in.

Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged can't go wrong.

But I think I recommended her some books, in that thread, cus Coulter's a nut job. :eek:

[Young Paleocon]

I just finished Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rishad, it is pretty detailed about the militant/terrorist situation in Central Asia. Even though Rishad is ardently pro-nation/state building, being a Pakistani journalist himself, I thought it fascinating how many Islamist organizations there are, and how they have become closely nit in the FATAH and NWFP. He claims Uzbekistan will be the next flash point.

[FrankRep]

The Creature from Jekyll Island
http://www.shopjbs.org/magento/index.php/books/the-creature-from-jekyll-island.html

[thasre]

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

The Discovery of Freedom
Rose Wilder Lane

Discourse on Involuntary Servitude
Etienne de la Boetie

The Law
Frederic Bastiat

[Liberty Rebellion]

What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard

GREAT read!

[Danke]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pleasing Your Man (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Pleasing-Your/dp/1592573657)

or just a good cook book.

[nobody's_hero]

Danke, were those internet I.Q. banners so interesting that you had to go an make an avatar out of one?

[angelatc]

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Spangled-Manners-Defends-American-Etiquette/dp/0393325016/ref=pd_bbs_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235440081&sr=8-8

This book is actually very interesting. It talks about etiquette going all the way back to early America. It talks about Washington as a strong natural leader, and Jefferson as more of a scholar who saw leadership more as a duty.....I think it's a chick book, but I really like it.

And Ann Coulter makes me laugh, too....

[Danke]

Danke, were those internet I.Q. banners so interesting that you had to go an make an avatar out of one?

:confused:


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[nobody's_hero]

I saw an ad on Facebook earlier today that had the same image and asked:

How many lips are in this picture?

Supposedly, people are supposed to goof up and say two—but there are four lips (two upper, two lower).

http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3925&PID=64400

Sorry y'all for the horrible off-topicness. :)

Edit: Actually it was a facebook ad.

[Roxi]

100 things your not supposed to know by russ kick

I am america and so can you steven colbert



also natalie do you have the visual bookshelf application for facebook? check out mine its pretty awesome, you can go through a list of books your friends are reading and find some great reads that way

[constituent]

or just a good cook book.

This is as good as it gets (http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Test-Kitchen-Family-Cookbook/dp/0936184876)



For Natalie, the Mary Poppins series by P.L. Travers. That's a liberated woman.

[pcosmar]

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
http://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Hammer-Larry-Niven/dp/0449208133

It is a good "what if".

[The_Orlonater]

What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard

GREAT read!

http://mises.org/money.asp

Completely free right here! :)

[Theocrat]

Here's another good book for you, Natalie. :)

http://www.reformationbookstore.com/images/products/detail/GenevaBibleRevisedBlackLeatherLrg.2.jpg (http://www.americanvision.com/1599genevabiblepdf.aspx)

[Paulitical Correctness]

33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask

[Sandra]

The Political Mind by George Lakoff. Explains how little reason plays out in modern political thinking.

[thasre]

The Political Mind by George Lakoff. Explains how little reason plays out in modern political thinking.

Hmm... Lakoff is basically a total commie and a lot of people kind of question his claims. A much more libertarian person who writes on the same sort of ideas as Lakoff, but reaches very different conclusions, is Steven Pinker, who's way better, IMHO.

Then again, I'm a linguist by education so I'm a little biased. Pinker and Lakoff are kind of famously at odds with each other, and Lakoff is disadvantaged for having basically been cast aside by Noam Chomsky in the 60's. I tend to side with the Pinker/Chomsky outlook on language and cognition.

Which isn't to say Lakoff's not worth reading. But I would take some of it with a grain of salt. And I'd definitely take a look-see at Pinker, who doesn't really write political stuff but is still very cool to read.

Also, here's a link to a really great Pinker criticism of Lakoff's book "Whose Freedom?" that's worth looking at:
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2006_09_30_thenewrepublic.html

Sorry, I feel like a butthole for going off on this weird anti-Lakoff tangent, but a lot of the people in my linguistics program have a strange pro-Lakoff outlook and so I get a bit defensive. Don't think I'm being pushy...

EDIT: For the closest thing to a political book Pinker has written, and one which more or less comes out in favor of classical liberalism, read "The Blank Slate".

[TER]

The Way of the Ascetics (http://www.stvladimirs.ca/library/way-of-the-ascetics.html)
to help motivate

[TastyWheat]

"Conservatives Without Conscience" by John Dean

He even rips on Ann Coulter a few times.

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[cindy25]

How I found freedom in an unfree world, by Harry Browne

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