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Will try to give you some books on a variety of controversial subjects (subject in parenthesis):
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying The West From Within - Bruce Bawer
(Title speaks for itself - Very well written and very interesting book which is why it's on top of this list.)
Bias - Bernard Goldberg (media bias)
Intellectuals and Society - Thomas Sowell (not about ALL intellectuals, just the ones that open their yappers on subjects outside their area of expertise and cause harm to society.)
Spreading The Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing The Suburbs To Pay For The Cities - Stanley Kurtz
(title speaks for itself)
Hollywood Interrupted:Insanity Chic in Babylon-- The Case Against Celebrity - Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner (title speaks for itself includes hollywood hypocrites)
The UN Exposed - Eric Shawn (title speaks for itself)
Freefall of The American University - Jim Nelson Black (the crapfest they call higher education these days)
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - Juan Williams (title speaks for itself)
King of Cons - Aaron Tonken (entertainment celebrities/polititians and charity appearances/demands)
The Final Leap: Suicide On The Golden Gate Bridge - John Bateson (the controversy is not why the many suicides but why there)
Without Reservation - Jeff Benedict (the fake Indian tribe in Connecticut that made land grabs for their casinos and the politicians that paved the way)
I thought about giving you this exceptional one but both the lefties and righties in my book discussion group liked it. I thought it was controversial when I recommended it to them and I still do:
The Big Sort: Why The Clustering of Like Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart - Bill Bishop (how Americans have been sorting themselves into polarized and ideologically inbred homogeneous communities so much so that they don't understand people who only live a few miles away)
And, I just finished reading this one:
The Big Truck That Went By: How The World Came To Save Haiti and Left Behind A Disaster - Jonathan M Katz (the Haiti earthquake of 2010 and the ineffective and harmful do-gooders that made it worse)
Does anybody know if Loewen's books are available in a young-reader's edition, maybe entitled "Lies My Teacher Is Going to Tell me"?
John Kenneth Galbraith's books on Economics will tell you a lot of economic history that the bulls on the cable finance networks sweep under the carpet.
Rene Dumont's "False Start in Africa" is a contemporaneous look at what was going wrong in the transition of Africa from colonialism. It's hard to find, titled "L’Afrique noire est mal partie" if you can read French.
'Homage To Catalonia' by George Orwell about the internal divisions that plagued the Spanish Civil War is an excellent read. Especially the resonant words detailing the ambivalence to the march of fascism that afflicted his fellow countrymen and women who were he ruminated 'all sleeping the deep, deep, sleep of England from which I sometimes fear we will never wake until we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs'.
Another interesting aspect was the way he described the attitude of the Spanish soldiers. Less battle hardened than the French and the English soldiers Orwell noted their readiness to concede that "the French were better soldiers than us".
An Englishman Orwell commented "would rather cut his own hand off than say such a thing".
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