The Column

Monday, March 22, 2010

Some reading while waiting to see what happens next

Today's required reading:

The Federalist Papers, by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton. Download from Project Gutenberg. A series of essays on what the Constitution is all about. Whatever it is, it's not the way PrezBo or Nancy Pelosi see it.

Democracy In America, by Alexis DeTocqueville. Download Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Project Gutenberg.

It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis. Download from ? -- h'mm, good luck free downloads from the United States, imagine that. But try the Australian Gutenberg site and Books @ Adelaide, another Aussie site. Well worth the search, though. It's a fictional work, from the 1930s, about the United States going totalitarian. Total fiction, but based on a true story. And it happened a year from now.

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