Expand your mind - List 2 Expand Your Mind II: More Suggested Readings from a Rogue Historian Yes, it’s time to add a new list of things to think about…it has been a couple of years and things have….evolved? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Enjoy! -Sean Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Fontova (New York: Sentinel Books, 2007) Sick of lemmings who wear ‘Che’ T-Shirts while driving BMW’s? Read this! Mishima’s Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend by Christopher Ross (New York: Da Capo Press, 2006) Want to find out about the psychology of Japanese martial culture while looking for a sword used in the last seppuku rite conducted in 1970? Read this! The War on Art by Steven Pressfield (New York: Warner Books, 2002) Got ‘Writer’s Block’? No you don’t. You are experiencing Resistance. Get off your ass and get over it. The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen (New York: Doubleday, 2007) Should there be standards…or not? Discuss. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. (New York: Henry Holt, 2002) One of the best books on the skill of reasoning. A classic… and the best defence against pseudohistory. Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg. (New York: Doubleday, 2007) His argument IS fucked up…read it anyway. He has a point. Lots o’them. Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream by Steven Watts (New York: Wiley, 2008) The man who transformed North American culture and the intimate lives of millions of teen-age boys. A cautionary tale/bio written by a real historian, not a puerile celebrity ‘biographer.’ |
