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Thread ID: 20547 | Posts: 17 | Started: 2005-10-06
2005-10-06 13:45 | User Profile
I want to give a book as a gift to a few of my family members and friends. These are individuals who I think need help to get off the fence on issues like foriegn policy, race, immigration etc and why the neocon crowd that is currently running the show is not doing so with our best interests in mind.
What are some good choices, lets hear it. Mind you, we dont want to scare them away after the first chapter.
2005-10-06 14:11 | User Profile
David Duke's "My Awakening". Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West" or "A Republic, Not An Empire"
You can't go wrong.
2005-10-06 15:06 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]David Duke's "My Awakening". Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West" or "A Republic, Not An Empire"
You can't go wrong.[/QUOTE] I'd go with Buchanan. There is still a pretty big stigma attached to Duke's name among most people.
2005-10-06 15:20 | User Profile
One of PJB's books is what I had in mind.
2005-10-06 15:54 | User Profile
True, Q and Josey, PJB's books are excellent for introducing fence-sitters to the WN/Paleo viewpoint.
Josey, another thoughtful idea for a gift might be sending a year's subscription of "American Conservative" Magazine to your family & friends. For us hardcore paleos, Amcon might be old hat, but for White folk who have been deluded and mislead by Faux News for a long time, it might be an even smoother way of breaking the truth to them.
2005-10-06 22:04 | User Profile
Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West" is the best of book spoken of. The ending is week, but I think many will draw more radical ideas after reading it than are in the book. OF mainstream books it is the best.
2005-10-07 15:35 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West" is the best of book spoken of. The ending is week, but I think many will draw more radical ideas after reading it than are in the book. OF mainstream books it is the best.[/QUOTE] You are exactly right, Faust. When I read "Death of the West," it was like being punched in the gut. He does shy away from drawing the obvious conclusions at the end of the book, but any reader with half a brain will draw them himself. An excellent 'gateway' book, which will open the mind for further reading.
2005-10-08 00:54 | User Profile
Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West"
2005-10-08 22:13 | User Profile
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2005-10-09 00:29 | User Profile
adam 1860,
[QUOTE]Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West"[/QUOTE]
A Great book, but not light reading for the unsure.
MaineMan,
[QUOTE]Foundations of the Nineteenth Century [/QUOTE]
I did like it, but it is not iin print. It is a very interesting book, but not without faults. But I would not recommend it as light reading or as a gift to anyone other than hard core Pan European Nationalist, who is not offended by little bit of German Chauvinism.
2005-10-09 00:32 | User Profile
Evola's "Revolt Against the Modern World" is worth looking at too.
[QUOTE]Revolt Against the Modern World : Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga -- by Julius Evola
[url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/089281506X/[/url][/QUOTE]
2005-10-09 01:50 | User Profile
For younger, MTV-generation "hipsters", who are likely to be skeptical of racialists or paleoconservatives I would recommend "The Redneck Manifesto" by Jim Goad. It starts of using a little bit of arguably anti-White humour to draw the reader in, but it discredits a lot of Marxist racial myth-making (e.g. about slavery), and it's also very funny, albeit a little crass.
2005-10-10 02:27 | User Profile
I agree that 'The Death of the West' packs a punch. The demographic stats are it's shock value and ultimate import, and it's suitable for European readers of this forum as well as the American posters.
From the strictly race angle, Michael Levin's 'Why Race Matters' is apparently in print again now or in the very near future. Rushton's 'Race, Evolution and Behaviour' is good too.
For any Brits reading this, forgive me JoseyWales, Peter Hitchens' 'The Abolition of Britain' is the first, best, "wake-up and see what we've lost" call.
2005-10-10 20:21 | User Profile
Born Fighting
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[QUOTE=JoseyWales]I want to give a book as a gift to a few of my family members and friends. What are some good choices, lets hear it. Mind you, we dont want to scare them away after the first chapter.[/QUOTE]
2005-10-11 04:32 | User Profile
The PJB suggestions are most likely the best for anyone new to paleo thought, but this was another book I found to be excellent:
"Diversity: The Invention of a Concept" by Peter Wood (sometime TAC contributor.)
Wood's book is excellent. He doesn't really trash diversity as much as he just gives a history of it. This would be a good "crossover" book for someone with a bit of an intellectual bent no matter what their persuasion. Of course, the only logical conclusion to be drawn is that "diversity" is a crock, but the ingenuity of this book is that it is not polemical at all.
2005-10-11 11:11 | User Profile
Can't go wrong with The Bible! :)
How about RL Dabney's, A Defense of Virginia and the South or Michael Andrew Grissom's Can the South Survive??
These others y'all mentioned are ones I need to read...
2005-10-15 15:13 | User Profile
The best book you can give is the one that will be read.
If you're buying for someone who likes fiction, he may not bother with some heavy sociological or historical work. Camp of the Saints would appeal to a reader of fiction, and is a good "gateway" book. 1984 too.
The Creature from Jekyll Island is a good non-fiction work for a newcomer. It's accessible, and raises many disturbing questions in the reader's mind (mine, anyway).
I think Culture of Critique would make a good gift for someone who recognizes that something is rotten, but hasn't yet "named" it.
A young man might like a fair-minded Lindberg biography, but I have no specific titles to recommend. Don't get the "Berg" biography. You can guess what's wrong with it.
Are there any books that resemble "Who Controls America?", but that wouldn't scare off a newbie? Media control is surely one of the most important topics.