The Fifty Worst Books

[glenn fuller]

On 02/22/2015 03:13 PM, Mark Thibodeau wrote:
> This list - and the other one, their "Best Books" list - are evidence 
> of souls so patently backwards and ridiculously bound up in 
> nigh-unto-biological knee-jerk "reaction" that it almost serves as de 
> facto evidence of the impossibility of "intellectual" conservatism. I 
> mean, that raging ape Russell Kirk? Those bizarre pseudo-mystics 
> Voegelin and Strauss?!
>
> I can admit that there are some of their favorites that are good - 
> Jane Jacobs, Henry Adams, Santayana, etc. And I appreciate that they 
> included The Autobiography of Malcolm X in both lists. That's clever 
> and probably proper. HOWEVER, they can't seriously think that all 
> those books that they listed as "worst" due to their own political 
> takes really are the "worst", can they?
>
> MT
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Dave Monroe 
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com <mailto:against.the.dave at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1388
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>     Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
I agree with them on their number #1 worst choice, (at least in terms 
oif bad research techniques), C_oming of Age in Samoa._ But, then again, 
how could Margaret Mead know that teenage girls might lie about sex?
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