6.04.2005

Tag Team Back Again

I've been tagged by Taylor over at ClassicaliberalConservative

Number of books you own:
I'm guessing lots. I'm not really sure. Grad school creates a library.

Last book bought:
The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course

Last book I read:
Hitler's Willing Executioners

Five books that mean a lot to me:
1) War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, John W. Dower (totally awesome)
2) The Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria
3) God's Politics: Why the right gets it wrong and the left doesn't get it (must read)
4) Democratic Development and Political Terrorism: The Global Perspective, edited by William Crotty (I'm a contributing author to this book, must read)
5) Lincoln, David Herbert Donald

I'm tagging:

WhymrHymer
The Big Board
The New OK Democrat
CaliValleyGirl
Sminklemeyer

You're supposed to post your answers on your own blog and then send it to 5 other people. Good luck!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Number of books you own:
About 250 or so

Last book bought:
Greenspan's Fraud, Sneaking into the Flying Circus by Alexdra Pelosi, Blood on the Street, Freakanomics, Hollywood Interupted (It was my birthday so I got GC to B&N)

My dad also gave me The United States of Europe

Last book I read:
Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder by Michael Savage and Greenspan's Fraud

Five books that mean a lot to me:
1) The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
2) Civilization and its Enemies by Lee Harris
3) Americans Are Alone in the World by Luigi Giorgio Barzin
4) Without Marx or Jesus by Jean-Francois Revel
5) Return to Sodom and Gomorrah by Charles R. Pellegrino

Chris said...

Hymer, I understand if you don't want to play along. No hard feelings.

Mark, dang boy, you can put them away. I am going to buy The United States of Europe. Without Marx or Jesus sounds very interesting. Is it about poverty?

If you don't mind, I would like to recommend, The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin. It's very good, and I think you would appreciate it. It deals a lot with the integration of Europe and the competition between America and the EU.

Anonymous said...

The European Dream is on my Zooba list.

Without Marx or Jesus is about how no other country is capable of having the kind of revolution that created America. It deals with the pervasiveness of socialism/marxism and how it has taken hold of the world consciousness outside of the US whether they actively realize it or not. Fascinating stuff. The author also wrote Anti-Americanism, and despite the fact that he his French, is very pro-American.