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The Myth of the Robber Barons
Young Amer Foundatio, 1987
"Robber Barons" Ought to be Called "Productive Geniuses"
+ Fascinating and Refreshing
+ Insightful perspective both on specific entrepreneurs and on the reasons for inaccuracy in the history books
+ It's amazing...
+ Who were the real robber barons
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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin
Amer Media, 2002
awesome
+ Understand the Economic Meltdown in 2008!
+ Creature from Jekyll Island Scary Non-Fiction Book
+ Great audio disc
+ A book about how the world works.
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Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
James Bovard
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Fantastic!
+ THE MASTER OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
+ Research excellent but some sources of "wisdom" questionable
+ Excellent fact-based recitation
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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Robert Pape
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
the best book for understanding suicide terrorism
+ All Americans should read this...
+ A great book to read. If you are ready for the naked truth and not prejudiset
i wrote one of the highlight reviews for this book when it first came out. it is a statistical study of all suicide terrorism from 1983 to 2003 and pape reaches excellent conclusions. this is not some security geek trying to explain islam... it is the real deal. i have read most books on this ...
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The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson, Stephen D. Cox
Transaction Publishers, 1993
One of the most important books of the 20th Century!
+ A work of genius!
+ I thought that it was excellant.
God of the Machine was my first clue that history could be more than a boring recitation of names and dates. Paterson looks at the whole sweep of history, from ancient to contemporary, and relates it to the ideas and principles of freedom. Her central concern is to discover the political forms ...
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Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
Rose Wilder Lane
Fox & Wilkes, 1993
Social Studies Primer In One Small Volume
+ Essential reading to understand the Promise of America
+ A book that helped me understand Amercia
+ A High School and College MUST READ
+ Discovery of Freedom also charts course of Saracen Muslims
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
James Bamford
Anchor, 2005
A MUST READ!
+ Superb, Once you get by the 9/11 party line myths
+ What Intelligence failure?
a MUST READ for every American...chronological facts laid out for you so that you can't ignore!
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America's Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2000
Truer today than it was 40 years ago
+ Clairvoyant Economics
+ The Real Deal on the New Deal
+ America's Great Depression
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The Monetary Sin of the West
Jacques Rueff
Macmillan, 1972
the monetary sin of the west
this is one of the best books on monetary economics i have read.
Rueff correctly identified the problems and solutions to the global monetary problems resulting from US trade deficits. the same problems exist today, on a much larger scale because Rueff's solutions were not implemented. This book ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)
Edward Gibbon
Penguin Classics, 2001
A monumental work in the field of history
+ Understand that any civilization may fail.
This work has often been called, and rightly I believe, the most significant historical text ever written in the English language. Even in abridged form this work is spectacular, but as a whole this treatise on the fall of Rome is nothing short of monumental. In fact, the whole work covers a ...
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Chalmers Johnson
Owl Books (NY), 2001
American Empire Triology
+ The Best of Johnson's Trilogy!
+ Fascinating
+ A fascinating book.
+ We were warned
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As We Go Marching
John T. Flynn
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. Flynn was a prominent journalist and rare case of an American public intellectual who resisted the onslaught of both the warfare and welfare states during the period in which FDR ruled America. This study links the domestic policy of the New Deal with the drive for war and wartime central planning. He draws ...
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Doctor Zhivago
Signet, 1958
"War and Peace" for the 20th Century
+ A superb, highly coincidental Russian novel suitable for the everyman
+ Love and Revolution
When Boris Pasternak wrote "Doctor Zhivago" at a writer's community in Russia, where he could be among literary people, he kept it under cover, knowing that the Soviet Union would never let it be published in Russia.
After a friend smuggled the manuscript out, it was first published in Italy and ...
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A Nation of Sheep
Andrew P. Napolitano
Thomas Nelson, 2007
An excellent book on a very serious subject
+ An absolute must read
+ Improving History's Accuracy
I've often felt as if I were among the few Napolitano calls wolves: Americans that dare to scream, holler and shout when government violates our Constitution. But even knowing of the vast Constitutional abuses I have been witness to in my lifetime, I never realized how widespread (and indeed, how ...
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The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II
Thomas Fleming
Basic Books, 2002
FDR...with the Warts
+ The wartime conflict at home
+ bias?
+ Great!
+ A Different Side of FDR and his New Dealers
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