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katharineotto’s recommended reading so far
October 10, 2015–CURRENT READ: FDR, Jean Edward Smith, 2007
Independent Study of Literature, History, Culture, Medicine, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy
As of October, 2015
History, Economics, and Politics
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson and committee
United States Constitution, ratified in 1788-1790 by 13 states. Many authors.
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 1776
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, 1771-1790
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, 1821
Washington: The Indispensible Man, James Thomas Flexner, 1969, 1973, 1974
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow, 2004
Thomas Jefferson: A Life, William Sterne Randall, 1993
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, 2002, 2003
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present, Howard Zinn, 1980-2003
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve,
G. Edward Griffin, 1994-2007 (realityzone.com)
The Robber Barons, Matthew Josephson, 1934, 1962
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins, 2004
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, A collection of essays by Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan,
Nathaniel Branden, and Robert Hessen, 1946-1967
Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman, 1962, 1982, and 2002
Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis,
William Bonner and Addison Wiggin, 2006
None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Gary Allen, with Larry Abraham, 1971
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny, Patrick J. Buchanan, 1999
Why Government Doesn’t Work, Harry Browne, 1995
The Fair Tax Book, Neal Boortz and US Rep John Linder (R-GA) (Not.)
Supercapitalism, Robert B. Reich, 2007
The Waste Makers, Vance Packard, 1960
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter, 2006
Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas, Ken Foskett, 2004
The Water Lords: Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on Industry and
Environmental Crisis in Savannah, Georgia, James M. Fallows, 1971
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, Susan Freinkel, 2011
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent,
Eduardo Galeano, 1973, 1997
Cuba: A New History, Richard Gott, 2004
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang, 1991
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, written 1513, published 1532
Medicine
Overdo$ed America, John Abramson, MD, 2004
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they Deceive Us and What to Do About It,
Marcia Angell, MD, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of
Medicine, 2004, 2005
Philosophy and Memoirs
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell, 1956
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank. B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 1948, 2002
Tales From the Time Loop, David Icke, 2003
Rats, Lice and History: The Biography of a Bacillus, A Bacteriologist’s Classic Study of a World Scourge, Hans Zinsser, 1934
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond, 2005
A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, 2005
Walden, Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Fiction
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1912
Life of Pi, Yann Martel, 2002
The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan, 1991
Empire Falls, Richard Russo, 2001
Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1851
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1947
Uhuru, A Novel of Africa Today, Robert Ruark, 1962
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith, 1943
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1868-1869
1984, George Orwell, 1949
Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1946
Oil!, Upton Sinclair, 1926
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
The Octopus, Frank Norris, 1901
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, 1931
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Remembrance Rock, Carl Sandburg, 1948
The Island of Dr. Moreau, HG Wells, 1896
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
Paradigms
Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott, 1884
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl, 1959
The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra, 1975
The “Unknown” Reality, Jane Roberts (A Seth Book), 1979
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