Got myself a Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas, and I need some recommendations from patriots. Any types of books. Hopefully I get a few MAGA recommendations as well.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - An enormous, bleak account that should be required reading in every high school. I'll probably never get through all the volumes, but it's a life changing read even so.
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer - Another doorstopper of a book, but a fascinating account of the regional British cultural roots that form the foundations of various areas of the US. It's one of my very favorite American history books.
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray - An analysis, warning, and destruction of identity politics. There are a lot of interviews with him online, so if you aren't already familiar with him, you can see one or two of them and decide of you want to read more. He's brilliant.
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz - A very pertinent dystopian novel, depicting state and bureaucratic control, tyranny, and manipulation, based on the author's experiences of the Arab Spring. Those for whom Orwell or Kafka resonates will find a lot to consider in this one. It centers around an official building called the Gate, which issues arbitrary decrees, and from which citizens are required to line up to get the paperwork for everything in their lives. Yet the gate never opens, and the line just gets longer. The way that the press, politicians, and unelected bureaucrats like Fauci have treated the coof vaccine reminds me so much of the way that the state officials in the book dangle the hope that "once the gate opens and you comply, you can all get your lives back." Imho, it should be a classic beside 1984.
The Collected Works of Cicero. The founding father of the Founding Fathers. Razorfist does a better job here of summarizing why he's so important than I ever could. He's also a fun read - a magnificent and witty orator, who absolutely dismantles his opponents, and delivers, not nuggets, but diamonds, of wisdom as well.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - An enormous, bleak account that should be required reading in every high school. I'll probably never get through all the volumes, but it's a life changing read even so.
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer - Another doorstopper of a book, but a fascinating account of the regional British cultural roots that form the foundations of various areas of the US. It's one of my very favorite American history books.
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray - An analysis, warning, and destruction of identity politics. There are a lot of interviews with him online, so if you aren't already familiar with him, you can see one or two of them and decide of you want to read more. He's brilliant.
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz - A very pertinent dystopian novel, depicting state and bureaucratic control, tyranny, and manipulation, based on the author's experiences of the Arab Spring. Those for whom Orwell or Kafka resonates will find a lot to consider in this one. It centers around an official building called the Gate, which issues arbitrary decrees, and from which citizens are required to line up to get the paperwork for everything in their lives. Yet the gate never opens, and the line just gets longer. The way that the press, politicians, and unelected bureaucrats like Fauci have treated the coof vaccine reminds me so much of the way that the state officials in the book dangle the hope that "once the gate opens and you comply, you can all get your lives back." Imho, it should be a classic beside 1984.
The Collected Works of Cicero. The founding father of the Founding Fathers. Razorfist does a better job here of summarizing why he's so important than I ever could. He's also a fun read - a magnificent and witty orator, who absolutely dismantles his opponents, and delivers, not nuggets, but diamonds, of wisdom as well.