Clinton releases list of his 21 favorite books

[lancdem]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou.
"Meditations," Marcus Aurelius.
"The Denial of Death," Ernest Becker.
"Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963," Taylor Branch.
"Living History," Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Lincoln," David Herbert Donald.
"The Four Quartets," T.S. Eliot.
"Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison.
"The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century," David Fromkin.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
"The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes," Seamus Heaney.
"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa," Adam Hochschild.
"The Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis.
"Homage to Catalonia," George Orwell.
"The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis," Carroll Quigley.
"Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics," Reinhold Niebuhr.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner," William Styron.
"Politics as a Vocation," Max Weber.
"You Can't Go Home Again," Thomas Wolfe.
"Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny," Robert Wright.
"The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats," William Butler Yeats.

OK, other than "The Hungry Caterpillar," what do you think Chimpy's favorite books are? :evilgrin:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031121/ap_on_en_ot/clinton_s_books_1

[elperromagico]

1. "Hop on Pop,"

and I would assume his foreign policy is inspired by The Butter Battle Book.

Apparently Shrub's really fond of that book about a goat the schoolchildren were reading on 9/11. After all, he let 3,000 people die so he could hear the ending.

[Richardo]

6. Actually his admin is modeled on "Yertle the Turtle"

Re-read it sometime. :scared:

From the Amazon review:
Yertle's story leads off with his attempt to build a bigger kingdom on the backs of his loyal subjects (literally). King of everything he can see, Yertle orders his turtles to stack up under him to build a towering throne. ("He made each turtle stand on another one's back and he piled them all up in a nine-turtle stack.") But a plain little turtle named Mack--stuck at the bottom--decides he's had enough. ("I know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down on the bottom we, too, should have rights!")

[elperromagico]

8. I would say Rove and Ashcroft are reading Orwell

Animal Farm and 1984, specifically.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. '"The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes," Seamus Heaney.'

I had The Cure in Orange video. That was cool. The Cure at Troy would be even cooler. Particularly if the played The Lovecats.

[catzies]

5. OK, that' the second time this week we both had musical answers

to serious questions, the first being the one about Interpol.

GMTA.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Good God! How nerdy are we! That's quite scary.

[quispquake]

3. And the Shrub released his list too!

The Hungry Little Caterpiller
TV Guide

[theboss]

4. Interesting

Though I find three of those to be unbearably boring.

[Brucey]

9. I would think these are Bush*'s favorite books:

Wisdom of Royal Glory, The Prince by Machiavelli, and Mein Kampf.

[JHB]

13. Only the Cliff Notes versions...

...and even those he has summarized in one-page memos.

[Emboldened Chimp]

14. Those are Rove's favs

and * has summaries read to him.

[lancdem]

15. The Prince by Machiavelli

is undoubtedly Karl Rove's favorite.

[terrya]

10. Remember during the 2000 campaign....

When Chimpy was ostentatiously lugging a biography of Dean Acheson around? A reporter asked Bushie what he got out of it. And...he couldn't say one word about it.

John McCain said that HE read the same book. And answered at length about his thoughts on the book.

Chimpy really shouldn't try to be anything other than what he is.

[elperromagico]

12. He's big on some biography of Sam Houston, isn't he?

And wasn't he also lugging around Ron Chernow's biography of John D. Rockefeller, Titan?

[JHB]

16. He's only big on CARRYING books...

...not actually opening them.

[displacedvermoter]

18. Carrying big books supplements his workout, he only gets a couple

hours a day in the gym. Busy doing whatever he does, lik raising money, the rest of the time.

[elperromagico]

19. I never said he READ them.

They were probably hollowed-out to make room for a flask of whiskey... non-alcoholic whiskey, of course (heh heh).

[elperromagico]

20. I never said he READ them.

They were probably hollowed-out to make room for a flask of whiskey... non-alcoholic whiskey, of course (heh heh).

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Reinhold Nieburh,

this is completely stunning as it is 180 from PNAC's favorite
philosopher, Strauss.

In fact Nieburh had less than choice words for Strauss

[MisterP]

17. what did * say about William Buckley at Yale?

"He wrote a book there. I read one."

[chromotone]

21. My list...

1. "Archie"
2. "Archie and Jughead"
3. "Scuffy, the Tugboat"
4. "Tootles"
5. "Theodore Mouse Goes to Sea"
5. "Theodore Mouse Goes to Sea on Scuffy, the Tugboat"
6. "The Little Engine That Could"
7. "Fun with Dick and Jane" (large print version)
8. "The Adventures of Goofus and Gallant"
9. "Goofus and Gallant Meet Amelia Bedelia"
10. "Amelia Bedelia Goes to Sea with Goofus and Gallant"
11. "Goofus Explains the Electoral College"
12. "Deputy Dawg Meets Tootles"
13. "Deputy Dawg Runs for Senate"
14. "Archie and Jughead Join the Republican Party"
15. "The How and Why Wonder Book of Militias"
16. "Golden Book Encyclopedia of Fascism"
17. "Fun with Frogs and Firecrackers"
18. "Jesus Was a Republican" (revised edition)
19. "101 Cut and Paste Crafts Using the US Constitution"
20. "Amelia Bedlia Explains Current US Foreign Policy"
21. "The Muppet Bible"

[chimpymustgo]

25. Chromotone, your list is Hilarious.

Why don't you post it separately - I'd hate to see it overlooked in this thread. It is very, very funny.

The Muppet Bible.

[Zomby Woof]

22. great list!

He cited Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia", which is a HIGHLY recommended work by him.

I haven't read the Herbert bio of Lincoln, but have heard great things about it.

[Snellius]

23. "The Denial of Death" is a great book

Becker used to be my professor at Berkeley. His lectures were so notorious they would attract as many as 2000 listeners, standing room only. At one point, during a lecture on Tolstoy, he brought a live cow onstage. Sadly, despite the title of his most famous book, he died prematurely.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

24. "Carroll Quigley"

Carroll Quigley, Clinton's mentor and professor. I wish people would read "Tragedy and Hope". Quigley describes a network of powerful and wealthy people around the world working together to promote their mixture of capitalism and state socialism under authoritarian regimes. Before PNAC, there was the Trilateral Commission. Before there was a WTO there was the Bilderbergers. Before there were neo-cons there were neo-liberals. Quigley was a member of this network and supported their goals.

A great reference guide is "Trilateralism" by Holly Sklar.

[Retrograde]

26. What - no Bible?

What is he, some sort of commie hippy pinko lie-beral???? (-:), of course)

That's a pretty wide-ranging collection (although I'd personally put "Down and Out in Paris and London" or any of his essay collections as my favorite Orwell) - history, philosophy, literature, poetry - a president to be proud of.

linda

[theboss]

27. When did Clinton become Maxim Magazine?

Sorry. . . but that's a funny joke, admit it!!