/lit/ - Literature

This past year? America Beyond Capitalism, by Gar Alperovitz. and Freethinkers, by Susan Jacoby.

>Saunders
Started a thread on him >>3389146

OMG UR RITE

ALL things are possible. Entry level college stuff. Sure.

All things except of course an atheistic scale of determinism.

For those christians still gasping at the slavery equation, it looks like I'll have to repeat myself before getting on with the night.

Read up on the American revolution and its civil war, and the Spanish civil war. And this one pictured is damn good too.

Don't hate too much children.

OP book looks dull. (Letter to a Christian Nation. To be left largely unread) I recommend this history book instead.

>>3211007
>Never read anything from the "new atheist" movement,
And you never will

>>3211179
Fascist

>>3211216
And yet they often are. Conversationally, I never go around saying "as an atheist." Its an aspect of me, but its not a faith. "As an Epicurean..." too a certain extent, but also not something I'd say.

Brilliant piece that sheds light on a lost American history.

>>2967651
>some cunt can't spell religion properly.
HA! Good catch.
>black guys in chains because Wilberforce didn't abolish the slave trade
HAHAHAH Bad miss

>>2967585
You even capitalize it! Funny funny lad. There's nothing "new" about atheism.

Freethinkers goes a long way in filling in the gaps left in American history, by the fundamentalist Christians, over the years.

Cool characters I want to look into are Ernestine L. Rose, Elizabeth C. Stanton (Who wrote "The Womans Bible") and Robert Ingersoll

If you want poetry, we always recommend Walt Whitman.

>>2871830
It fully should be taught at that level!

>Write it 'moby dick'
Look at you! You can't even spell!!

>Wades through the edgy hate posts

>>2851091
OP, if you're still about, and for anyone else interested, Its probably a fine read and a very decent case for its thesis statement, but I'd recommend this book instead. Very lively and informative. A history book that fills in all the gaps that theists would like us all to forget.

>What non fiction have you read recently that wasn't assigned for a university course?

That's my thing OP. Not in any classes but soaking up lots of history and biographies lately. Mostly revolutionary and Byzantine. Recent five star recommendation posted.

List upon request I guess.

My two cents. Great book.

>>2827230
>Implying there's a new way to not believe in a god.
Such hipster terminology.

>>2827254
>He had no interest in writing fiction.
BOOM ZING.

>>2827403
>No Ernestine Rose
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!

I finished reading this book recently, what are /lit/'s opinion on it? I think it's amazing.

>>2809436
Late antiquity, fall of western half of Rome to the fall of the Eastern half at the edge of the Age-of-Discovery (Loved early antiquity and ancient to death years ago, will return to it someday) and the revolutionary period. Which we are still very much in. 1776 - 2012

Currently Susan Jacoby.
Good stuff.

>>2777832
Yes, apparently the Supreme Court hasn't been nice to We the people, for most of our history.

Freethinkers: And currently reading this. I almost teared up at the end of chapter three today. Bed now.

Another fantastic eye-opener. Should be made available to schools along with Thomas Paine's work.

This one piqued my interest.

Instead of Dawkins scientific approach or Hitchens (essayist? I haven't read it. What would you call his approach?) Freethinkers is from the historians perspective. Dispelling the myth that the US is a strictly Christian nation. from its reviews I'm loving it already.