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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
5.0
Excellent introduction to basic Marxist premises and methods for a historically-minded theorist and organizer. If we are condemned to read history at the end of the world, we could hardly ask for a better companion than Zinn.
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
4.0
Need to come back to this one.
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
4.0
Fascinating, especially for it's psychoanalytic analysis in Chapter 4: Left Hand, though critical peer reviews have left me uncertain of is historiographic reliability.
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
2.0
It's continued relevancy as a work if their, rather than merely historical record, is at best suspect in a post-fascist age such as our own.
Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations by
Another one to re-read at some point.
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
5.0
Few texts have done more to make me both a better and a worse writer--and several of those were also written by Wallace.
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
4.0
Cool insider look into what was probably the first modern presidential campaign.
The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil by C.S. Lewis
4.0
For several years in my late teens I would reread this book every year during Lent. during that time few texts were more influential upon me than this--and a majority of those were literally Gospels. One probably cannot fully understand the ways and degrees such a tract continues to determine the kind of vessel, so let it suffice to say it's influence was most definitely extensive and almost certainly excessive.