Reading List

Here is a list of books I've read recently or plan on reading this summer. Feel free to comment on any of them, or pick them up yourselves:

Chris Mathews' 'Hardball' and 'Now Let Me Tell You What I Really Think'.

James W. Loewen's 'Lies My Teacher Told Me' or 'Lies Accross America'.

Marx's 'Communist Manifesto' or 'Early Writings'

Edmund Burke's 'Relfection on the Revolution in France' and any of the various collective writings of Burke.

Aristotle's 'The Art Rhetoric' and 'The Politics'

Immanuel Kant's 'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals' and 'What is the Enlightenment?'

Plato's 'The Republic'

Thomas Hobbes' 'Leviaton'

After Leviathon read 'The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit' by Melvin Konner to learn about more recent ideas than Hobbes' on human nature.

Voltaire's 'Candide'!

Chaim Potok's 'My Name is Asher Lev' and 'The Chosen'

Eric Schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation'

Barry Glassner. I read 'The Culture of Fear', but his more academic stuff is much better.

Ferdinand Oyono's 'Houseboy'

Al Franken's 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them'. I just finished this, and he has written 6 or 7 other books that I haven't read.

I'm about to finish Michael Moore's 'Downsize This,' but haven't read any of his other books. I beleive they are 'Stupid White Men' and 'Dude, Where's My Country'.

I've read 14 of the above books in the last 9 months, and the other few are what I plan to read this summer. Now you folks reading can see my influences. Any comments, criticism, or suggestions for further reading?