Dexter - I am half way through "Arabian Sands" A very important book for anyone who would understand the current ME, and Whhabi Islam. And it is almost impossible to put down, just fantastic.

picture of the cover from the internet:



Is it ok show images and pictures?

Kinmle wrote:Dexter - I am half way through "Arabian Sands" A very important book for anyone who would understand the current ME, and Whhabi Islam. And it is almost impossible to put down, just fantastic.

Thanks, will check it out

As President Camacho said, not another book on religion! I expect there is enough life in the Carrier discussion to keep the religious fanatics happy for a while.

I would like to discuss a book that has major background to the fissures of American politics, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek. I think it has some arguments that help to explain the Trump phenomenon. It is available free online at https://mises.org/sites/default/files/R ... erfdom.pdf in condensed form with The Intellectuals and Socialism. Hayek is among the most influential economic philosophers in history, and this book was pivotal in exploring the conflict between collectivism and liberty in Cold War politics.

After Carrier weighing in at 650 pages, short books are more likely to get people reading the whole thing and debating their ideas.

Robert Tulip wrote: I would like to discuss a book that has major background to the fissures of American politics, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek. I think it has some arguments that help to explain the Trump phenomenon.

I'm a big fan of Hayek, it's been a while since I read The Road To Serfdom

Here's a good introduction to the wide range of Hayek's thought, I read the beginning of it

http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Hay ... B00ZGSIJ7M

It's free, and all in Boudreaux's words, rather than quoting from Hayek. Of course there are many useful insights that still hold up from The Road to Serfdom, but I'd probably give this to someone as an intro to Hayek.

Another suggestion with the slavery books listed above, here is the first slave narrative written and published by a former slave.

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. Written by Himself
http://www.amazon.com/Life-William-Grim ... g=UTF8&me=

LanDroid, I have to wonder how in 6 years that book has only had one review. Poor marketing perhaps.

Based on the suggestions and comments here let's agree to the following....

Our April, May and June book needs to be selected soon. I'm going on a cruise from March 21st through the 26th so I'd love to have our next non-fiction book selected before I leave. This allows me to create the forum and announce the book. But if I create the poll right now and we don't have sufficient votes by the 20th we can leave the poll up while I'm on the cruise. We'll then announce a winner when I return. But again, ideally, we have the book selected and the new forum created by March 20th.

No books on religion this time.

There are some great suggestions here but not much feedback on the suggestions. As usual this poses a challenge when creating a poll. If someone suggests a book and nobody else makes a positive comment about that suggestion I have to assume that suggestion is not worth putting on the poll. So please understand why some suggestions aren't going to be on the poll.

I'll create a poll today.

I take back my above comment. We have pretty decent feedback on a bunch of books. So creating this poll is going to be easy. I'll get it done today.