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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Joe Molotov on March 05, 2016, 12:48:07 PM

Title: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 05, 2016, 12:48:07 PM
It's an election year, so I'd like to do a bit of  :snob reading. I'm starting off with Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. I haven't read Nixonland, but I enjoyed Invisible Bridge.

What are some other books that worth reading? I'm kinda interested in the Dixiecrat revolt at the '48 DNC and also the rise of the Religious Right, but I'll accept any suggestions
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that aren't Bob Avakian. :ussrcry
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Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Steve Contra on March 05, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Followup with Nixonland.
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 05, 2016, 01:35:15 PM
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This book discusses the "plantation mentality" that is causing Americans to become co-dependent. It is historical however does look at the authors personal journey from a Berekely militant to a conservative businessman.
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: benjipwns on March 05, 2016, 01:40:04 PM
You want election themed/year focused books mainly?
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 05, 2016, 03:25:46 PM
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, natch
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 05, 2016, 05:39:55 PM
Das Kapital
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Yeti on March 05, 2016, 09:00:11 PM
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Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 06, 2016, 12:03:37 PM
Quote from: benjipwns on March 05, 2016, 01:40:04 PM
You want election themed/year focused books mainly?

Not strictly, mainly I'm just looking for books about important points in 20th Century American political history.
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Mandark on March 06, 2016, 12:36:09 PM
Tell Newt To Shut Up! (http://www.amazon.com/Tell-Newt-Shut-Prize-Winning-Journalists/dp/0684832933)

It covers the clash between Gingrich's congress and Clinton's white house, mostly from the Republican side.  Obviously a bunch of parallels to the Boehner/Obama/Tea Party shenanigans.
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 06, 2016, 01:08:08 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on March 06, 2016, 12:03:37 PM
Quote from: benjipwns on March 05, 2016, 01:40:04 PM
You want election themed/year focused books mainly?

Not strictly, mainly I'm just looking for books about important points in 20th Century American political history.

You definitely wanna read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, then. I'd recommend Boys on the Bus, too.
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: Syph on March 06, 2016, 03:15:44 PM
Quote from: I'm a Puppy! on March 05, 2016, 05:39:55 PM
Das Kapital
:iface easy there bernie
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on March 06, 2016, 06:49:36 PM
Bernie's more Zinn than Marx tbh
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: benjipwns on March 06, 2016, 11:26:04 PM
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This feller has wrote a series of sorts:
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He also has a 1932 one but half of it's about Hitler's election/seizing of power and the other half is about a future fascist dictator.
Title: Re: PoliBore, give me your Recommended Reading Lists so I can keep my turlet stocked
Post by: benjipwns on March 06, 2016, 11:28:21 PM
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These two kinda go together:
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