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Bainton: The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Cleator: Always and in Everything
Dana: Two Years Before the Mast
Dugard: Into Africa
Emerson: The Portable Emerson
Hamilton / Madison / Jay: The Federalist Papers
Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia
Johnson: A History of Christianity
Kirk: The Roots of American Order
Kilmeade: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
McCullough: The Pioneers
McGee: Through the Bible Vol. I-V (CR)
Meltzer: The American Revolutionaries
Morris: Colonel Roosevelt
Muir: My First Summer in the Sierra
Noonan: When Character Was King
Reagan: The Reagan Diaries / An American Life / Reagan In His Own Hand
Rand: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Sandburg: Abraham Lincoln
Sinclair: The Jungle
Smith: The Wealth of Nations, Books I-V
Spurgeon: Morning and Evening (CR)
Turner: The Frontier in American History
fiction / historical fiction / children's fiction
Bulfinch: Bulfinch's Mythology
Eliot: Middlemarch
L'Amour: The Lonesome Gods
Limbaugh: Rush Revere and the First Patriots / ...and the American Revolution / ...and the Brave Pilgrims / ...and the Star Spangled Banner / ...and the Presidency
Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Stone: Love is Eternal / The Agony and the Ecstasy
plays
poetry / prose
Benét: John Brown's Body
Cummings: Collected Poems
Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962
Vergil: The Aeneid
I haven't read many of these either, except for the plays. I advocate adding O'Neill to that group in order to meet a number of interesting and tormented characters. Some in the family setting-"Long Day's Journey", and some in the bar-"Iceman cometh." Middlemarch (twice read) and Atlas Shrugged captured my long-lasting reading time and involvement, both in their very own unique ways. Muir is on my list too.
ReplyDeleteWith Russell Kirk, I came up against a brick wall. Someone on Amazon said The Conservative Mind was only for the dedicated political science historian and I soon found it beyond my range of interest (or comprehension), and I didn't stay with it for long. Kirk proved to be for me, however, quite a masterful hand in a genre unrelated to politics with his Ancestral Tales. These are a collection of nineteen ghostly stories, and many of them with a moral, as the author was a Chritian believer.
With Russell Kirk, I tried The Conservative Mind and came up against a brick wall.
Oh, no! I hope I like The Roots of American Order. It's been on my unread for a thousand years!!! I think it's the oldest unread I have, and I was so convinced that I'd want to read it. I just never got around to it after I bought it. I've read the author's essays on the Conservative Thinker online, and I am in agreement with him usually. I think he's Catholic, but I am not, and that's where we may differ. But we'll see when I finally sit down to read it.
ReplyDeleteI tried Atlas Shrugged and I disliked it so much. I forced my way until I couldn't any more. I thought I'd try later, but I may not. Going to finally start Middlemarch this year, too.
I Googled Kirk's story Saviourgate and read a detailed essay that said that this tale was more like Eliot than Dante, even though Kirk was Catholic, as you noted. Maybe I could handle more easily some of the essays of his that you mentioned from the Conservative Thinker, if I ventured away from the fantasy domain where he truly excels, in my opinion. I'm confident that you will handle the political depth of Kirk and the literary depth of Eliot in Middlemarch with ease.
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