north_shore_lib (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} north_shore_lib) wrote,@ 2008-02-17 15:19:00 |
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Presidential Reading
Bill Moyers asked his television viewers what book, other than the Bible, they would recommend that the next President bring to the White House - and hopefully read!. There were lots of suggestions, but the current top titles are as follows:
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (330.122 K64)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Art of Non- War by Kim Michaels
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (304.28 D537)
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson (327.73 J655)
Common Sense by Tom Paine (973.311 P14)
Assault on Reason by Al Gore (973.931 G666)
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (363.73874 G666)
Free Lunch; How the Waelthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense by David Cay Johnson (338.973 J72)
1984 by George Orwell (Adult SF Fantasy)
Animal Farm by George Orwell ( Adult Fiction)
The End of America; Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolff
Three Cups of Tea; One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (371.82 M887)
Nickel and Dimed; On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (305.569 E334)
March of Folly; From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Tuchman (909.08 T888)
Team of Rivals; The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (973.7092 G656)
The Great Turning; From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Adult Fiction)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Adult Fiction)
Broken Government by John Dean
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (332.042 P449)
House of War; The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power by James Carroll (355.033 C319)
The World is Flat; A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman (303.4833 F911)
Te Tao Ching by Lao Tzu (299.51 L298L)
Legacy of Ashes; The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (327.1273 W423)
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (Pic Seuss)
Horton Hears a Who by Dr, Seuss (Pic Seuss)
The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss (Pic Seuss)
If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss (Pic Seuss)
Now - it's your turn: What book would you suggest?
Bill Moyers asked his television viewers what book, other than the Bible, they would recommend that the next President bring to the White House - and hopefully read!. There were lots of suggestions, but the current top titles are as follows:
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (330.122 K64)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Art of Non- War by Kim Michaels
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (304.28 D537)
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson (327.73 J655)
Common Sense by Tom Paine (973.311 P14)
Assault on Reason by Al Gore (973.931 G666)
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (363.73874 G666)
Free Lunch; How the Waelthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense by David Cay Johnson (338.973 J72)
1984 by George Orwell (Adult SF Fantasy)
Animal Farm by George Orwell ( Adult Fiction)
The End of America; Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolff
Three Cups of Tea; One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (371.82 M887)
Nickel and Dimed; On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (305.569 E334)
March of Folly; From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Tuchman (909.08 T888)
Team of Rivals; The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (973.7092 G656)
The Great Turning; From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Adult Fiction)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Adult Fiction)
Broken Government by John Dean
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (332.042 P449)
House of War; The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power by James Carroll (355.033 C319)
The World is Flat; A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman (303.4833 F911)
Te Tao Ching by Lao Tzu (299.51 L298L)
Legacy of Ashes; The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (327.1273 W423)
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (Pic Seuss)
Horton Hears a Who by Dr, Seuss (Pic Seuss)
The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss (Pic Seuss)
If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss (Pic Seuss)
Now - it's your turn: What book would you suggest?
