Recommended Reading


The Washington Monthly has a short feature on what books a newly inaugurated President Obama ought to read. Notable suggestions come from Andrew Bacevich (The Irony of American History, by Reinhold Niebuhr), Jacques Barzun (Santayana’s Character and Opinion in the United States and William James’s The Will to Believe), John Judis (Avi Shlaim’s The Iron Wall), and Jim Pinkerton (Hayek’s The Pretense of Knowledge).

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3 Responses to “Recommended Reading”

  1. Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt would do Obama wonders…assuming he’d read it. A guy can dream, can’t he?

  2. Obama has lived his whole life in a liberal bubble. If he comes to see the world in a different light (now that he is becoming president) I shall be pleasantly surprised.
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  3. the one the country needs to read is “the discovery of freedom” by rose wilder lane. like when she says that the ten commandments were basically an afterthought and the point moses was trying to make was that being free means you provide for yourself. People have been so governmented that thye have lost touch with the type of freedom and dignity monotheism can offer

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