Hobbit
11-21-2002, 07:54 PM
For those who are interested in the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, I highly recommend The Devil Knows How to Ride by Edward Leslie. Another book worth reading is Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles.
If you are interested in government and religion and their interoperability, Philip Hamburger's Separation of Church and State is outstanding material.
Finally, although European intellectuals are presently doing everything in their power to censor the great Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and the Pride should now be available in America. Comparing Islamic terrorists to a "new SS, the new blackshirts," Fallaci writes that Islam is a "mountain that for 1400 years has not moved, has not emerged from the abyss of its blindness, has not opened its doors to the conquest of civilization, and has wanted nothing to do with liberty and justice and democracy and progress." This book is written by an adept Italian woman writer who in this case, at least, does her own translation. Her English leaves something to be desired, but you will have no trouble understanding from whence this "rant" comes. Whether your personal ideology synchs with hers or not, this work is worth reading. As has been noted in Le Figaro "this book risks sowing confusion in people's minds." Gosh, lets hope so!
:):)
If you are interested in government and religion and their interoperability, Philip Hamburger's Separation of Church and State is outstanding material.
Finally, although European intellectuals are presently doing everything in their power to censor the great Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and the Pride should now be available in America. Comparing Islamic terrorists to a "new SS, the new blackshirts," Fallaci writes that Islam is a "mountain that for 1400 years has not moved, has not emerged from the abyss of its blindness, has not opened its doors to the conquest of civilization, and has wanted nothing to do with liberty and justice and democracy and progress." This book is written by an adept Italian woman writer who in this case, at least, does her own translation. Her English leaves something to be desired, but you will have no trouble understanding from whence this "rant" comes. Whether your personal ideology synchs with hers or not, this work is worth reading. As has been noted in Le Figaro "this book risks sowing confusion in people's minds." Gosh, lets hope so!
:):)