[Homestead] Politics

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 6 12:53:47 EDT 2008


.Original list:  The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Song of Solomon by Toni
.Morrison; Moby Dick, Shakespeare's Tragedies, Parting the Waters, Gilead, 
by
.Robinson; Self-Reliance by Emerson; The Bible, Lincoln's Collected 
Writings.
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I do not see anything wrong with one personal favorites.  They could be 
favorites for any number of reasons, maybe they were a fun read, maybe they 
were informative, or maybe they caused one to think about and more closely 
examine ones own position.  Just because a particular author is on a list is 
not a real issue (so much of modern political reporting is not on real 
substantive issues).  If the  list were built of only those type authors 
then that would be of concern.  Personally I think reading much fiction such 
as the bible is a waste of time.

I have no real list of favorite books because it would mostly be populated 
with the books I have most recently read.  Look at my journal for the last 
several years for a list of what I have been reading.  I tend to mostly 
history and lately economics with an occasional science fiction thrown in 
just to kill a little time.

Here is my current list of books.
  1.. The Collected What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 
Edited by Robert Cowley
  2.. Bill & Dave: How Hewlett And Packard Built the World's Greatest 
Company by Michael S. Malone
  3.. Earthquakes by Bruce A. Bolt
  4.. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Alexander, 
Ishikawa, Silverstein
  5.. Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of 
American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips
  6.. Extra Class: Amateur Radio Element 4 FCC License Preparation by Gordon 
West
  7.. Neanderthals, Bandits, & Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began by 
Colin Tudge
  8.. Water Mills of the Missouri Ozarks by George G. Suggs, JR with 
illustrations by Jake K. Wells
  9.. The Complete Joy of Home Brewing by Charlie Papazian
  10.. Ancient Agriculture by Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods
Here is the list from one year ago
  1.. New Ideas From Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic 
Thought by Todd G. Buchholz
  2.. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolover
  3.. The Telephone Book: Bell, Watson, Vail and American Life, 1876 - 1976 
by H.M Boettinger
  4.. Benedict Arnold's Navy:The Ragtag fleet that lost the battle for Lake 
Champlain but won the American Revolutiion by James L. Nelson
  5.. The Other Side of Western civilization: Readings in Everyday Life, 
Volume II The Sizteenth Century to the Present Edited by Peter N. Stearns
  6.. In the Footsteps of the Camel:A portrait of the Bedouins of Eastern 
Saudi Arabia in Mid Century by Eleanor Nicholson
And two years ago
 11. The Archers Tale by Bernard Cornwell
10. Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the making of a great nation 
by Peter L. Bernstein
9. Engineering in the Ancient World by J.G. Landels
8. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry 
Petroski
7. A History of God by Karen Armstrong
6. Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamarro and History in the Northern 
Mariana Islands by Scott Russell
5. The Worldy Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
4. The German Annexation of the Caroline, Palau, and Mairana Islands by 
Rudolf Von Bennigsen
3. Chamarro Language and Culture Today: Issues and Concerns
2. The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and 
Higher Yields by John Jeavons and Carol Cox
1. Teachings from the Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
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