An American's Reading List: What Should Everyone Read?

Most of us are all too aware of the failings of the current American educational system. Home schooling is one antidote, but what about for people who have survived its leftist indoctrination intact, but are still handicapped by the many inadequacies of a typical trip through public school and college?

What to read? There are lists...the 100 great books comes to mind...but some of those lists assume a basic knowledge of world and American history, and I fear that that supposition is incorrect.

The Bible, The Iliad, Plato, St. Augustine, Shakespeare, Dante, Machiavelli, Adam Smith, Chesterton, Conrad, The Federalist Papers, Gibbon, etc.

It's a huge list, and a daunting one.

So...where to start? Maybe five books per year, and a five year limit. So 25 books that will provide the basis for an understanding of Western philosophy and American Exceptionalism.

Yup, it's a tall order, and I don't think it is possible. But the idea is to pique an interest in the topic, not to provide a comprehensive list.

So...me first.

"Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn."

posted by CBD at 02:00 PM

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