Last book I read: The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by sport, by Andrew J. Bacevich. (Yes, I’m working on a piece about this one, too, but I’ll just say here that it deserves to be a best-seller.)
Top Five Books:
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand — Without having read this book I would never have survived beyond the age of 17. I would say this about her other works, too, including Atlas Shrugged and We, the Living, because they reinforced my complete identification with Rand’s sense-of-life (albeit not with all aspects of her philosophy, which she called “Objectivism,” and I call libertarianism).
The Outsider, by Colin Wilson — I have chosen Wilson’s first book because it is the best known, but I have to say that his subsequent works (an amazing 100 books, by my count) had even more of an impact on my own thinking, including especially New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution, The Strength to Dream, The Age of Defeat.
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