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Old 06-28-2017, 11:49 AM
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Hopefully preceded by "The Caves of Steel."
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Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

Always a fun read for me.
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Cursed Days: IVAN BUNIN

Hard hitting critique of the Bolsheviks by the Nobel laureate. This is organized in diary form.
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Old 07-10-2017, 01:49 PM
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Radical, My Journey Out Of Islamist Extremism
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Old 07-10-2017, 07:38 PM
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Radical, My Journey Out Of Islamist Extremism
Author:Maajid Nawaz

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Kolyma Tales:VARLAM SHALAMOV

short stories from a Gulag writer.
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Has anyone read Jeff Flake's Conscience of a Conservative? He's certainly well spoken, appears thoughtful and rational, so naturally has quickly become a target of the alt-right hate-mongers. It gets great reviews by thinking conservatives. Thinking about getting a Kindle copy...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...a-conservative
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Don't waste your time, the author's flakey.
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Old 10-13-2017, 06:07 AM
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I highly recommend Thomas E. Ricks' Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.

It's closing paragraph: The struggle to see things as they are is perhaps the fundamental driver of Western civilization. There is a long but direct line from Aristotle and Archimedes to Locke, Hume, Mill, and Darwin, and from there through Orwell and Churchill to the “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” It is the agreement that objective reality exists, that people of goodwill can perceive it, and that other people will change views when presented with the facts of the matter.
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