And may even answer that “mystery” about ‘where the jobs are.’ And while Obama, of course, wouldn’t be interested in finding out what his problems are, it’s a good idea for all of to become as informed as possible on what drives liberals and “progressives” and why their plans offer nothing but disaster.

New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition

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  1. bachmann2012 says:

    I love The Forgotten Man. It shows how history is repeating itself now with all the spending hurting the economy, but even moreso about FDR going after the rich and villifying Mellon when he did nothing wrong. Shlaes also shows how FDR won reelection the first time by purely pandering to his constituent groups, which is clearly what Obama is already doing. Unspoken in all of this is that FDR used Alinsky tactics; Saul Alinsky just gave them a name.

  2. aardvark says:

    If he’s pressed for time, I’d recommend the Constitution. It’s only 4 to 6 pages (base text + Bill of Rights). Not to mention this little reading list >>>>
    Top 100 Primary Source Documents in American Civics Education:

    http://www.jackmillercenter.org/2010/05/civic-education-top-100

  3. thierry says:

    It has all it can do to handle all that reading of the same speech over and over again on TOTUS plus with all the golf and all the partying- do you want to break It?

    for all his professorial posturing urkel evinces no air of book learning in the serious classical sense. he’s an empty regurgitator of slogans like all marxists. maybe he could sit through a film. i’d make it watch “Burnt by the Sun” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111579/
    and Repentance http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093754/ . everyone should try to find a copy of Repentance. someone from east germany insisted that i seek it out a long time ago. it’s from georgia. a woman keeps digging up the corpse of the fascist monster that destroyed her family. however i think it may be way over urkel’s pointed trash filled head.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWgxbkAUuzw

    one summer wasn’t bush reading “l’étranger” by camus? that made me chuckle. oh, Meursault!

  4. bluegrassarizona2 says:

    You’ll have to encode them for the teleprompters for him to notice.

  5. thierry says:

    and because mrs. peel was often found battling nefarious international communist plots- diana rigg is 72 this tuesday.

  6. gothicreader says:

    I have A Road to Serfdom and Sacred Fire to read. I’m sure I’m going to enjoy reading them both. I have others as well, but I’m currently reading The 5,000 Leap Years.

  7. franknitti says:

    I have a feeling that the only books Urkel has ever read in his life are The Communist Manifesto, The Collected Sermons of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and the novelization of that classic film, Dude, Where’s My Car?

  8. RADAR says:

    I’d love to send Barry some of my favorite books but he’d probably declare them divisive and counter Obamalutionary. Then he can convert them to mulch for The Peoples’ Garden. Then my mind will be free of conflicting ideas and open to his eternal wisdom. Happy happy joy joy!

  9. MRFIXIT says:

    “The Road to Serfdom” is fantastic. A great book on the Great Depression is Murry Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression”. In it he lays out the causes, and the comedy of errors that prolonged it one by one. He also takes on each of the major economists’ explaination of the causes and remedys and thoroughly debunks them. Coolidge was laise-fare, Hoover was the first government interventionist, and FDR put intervention on steroids, all to ill effects that they did not understand. You’ll never think of the Great Depression the same way again. You will also get queasy as you see the current administration use the failed policies of the ’30s as their playbook. The book, long out of print, can be downloaded for free as a PDF at vonmises.org.

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