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Anonymous Wed Jul 4 00:01:43 2012 No.2777510 [DELETED]

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I'm looking to get into reading some Non-fiction.
I just read pic related and thought it was interesting to say the least.
I don't quite know jack shit about politics and picked this up for a biased view.

Anyways, I'm looking for great Non-fiction books about anything. It doesn't have to be about politics.

If there is like an essential list to Non-fic guide me please.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 00:05:44 2012 No.2777515 File: 1.80 MB, 2200x3200, essays.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There are several non-fiction guides on the wiki. None are politics related - a lot of philosophy, one for essays and one for travel literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 00:07:43 2012 No.2777516 trying to be "unbiased" just makes you a fence sitting faggot who's wrong about everything anyways, just go read /pol/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 00:08:43 2012 No.2777517 >>2777516 I didn't say I was trying to be unbiased. I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 00:10:43 2012 No.2777519 >>2777516 How does it feel to be retarded?

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 01:13:18 2012 No.2777628 File: 52 KB, 480x720, general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777517 I'm the non-fiction fan around here. Still about?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 01:32:21 2012 No.2777670 >>2777628 >keynes aha oh wow

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 01:38:20 2012 No.2777681 File: 39 KB, 450x254, 1293971214598.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777670 >fiscally conservative >In the middle of a recession How Hoover can you get?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 01:40:20 2012 No.2777688 Pro tip, OP. Conservatives are always wrong. I know that sounds like a childish partisan put-down, but it's true.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 01:45:22 2012 No.2777701 >>2777688 Obama is an Eisenhowerian republican, and only half wrong. Christian-conservatives, aka the GOP, aka "the Republican Party" aka The Tea Party" are the ones who are 100% wrong.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 01:54:22 2012 No.2777714 File: 21 KB, 200x305, 200px-Ggas_human_soc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jared Diamond - Guns Germs and Steel. Why different parts of the world developed at different rates. Not the final word, but very very good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 01:55:22 2012 No.2777715 >>2777515 I'm not OP, but I pretty much only read ebooks and I was just wondering, are collections of essays hard to find online?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 01:57:22 2012 No.2777718 >>2777688 Conservatives are frequently wrong about social issues, frequently right about economic ones. Vice versa for liberals.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 01:57:22 2012 No.2777720 >>2777718 Bingo.

Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:00:22 2012 No.2777723
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Paris 1919 is a tad dry, but if it works for you it is an awesome overview about how the Paris Peace Conference after WW1 set up the entire 20th century, including most of the wars that came after, and a big chunk of the 21st so far as well. Everybody was there from the rising Empire of Japan to newly communist Russia to the Vietnamese and the resurgent force of Islam. We're still paying the price for mistakes that were made there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:02:24 2012 No.2777727 Okay, So far I'm going to be reading Guns, Germs, and Steel. And perhaps Paris 1919. For reference I que enjoyed Emperor of all Maladies

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:05:24 2012 No.2777733 >>2777718 >>2777720 Wrong. History kids. Read some history. Especially about the Depression.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:05:24 2012 No.2777735 File: 137 KB, 400x400, mah jimmas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777718 >frequently right about economic [issues]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:07:24 2012 No.2777737 >>2777733 Hey can you give me a list or some sort of essential for non fiction? You seem like you know some stuff

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:07:24 2012 No.2777740 File: 61 KB, 329x498, theory-of-moral-sentiments.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:08:24 2012 No.2777743 File: 39 KB, 323x500, the-second-bill-of-rights-fdr-s-unfinished-revolution-and-why-we-need-it-more-than-ever-20956321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:10:24 2012 No.2777745 File: 33 KB, 315x500, Road to Wigan Pier.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Haven't read this one yet, but Homage to Catalonia was very good

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:10:25 2012 No.2777747 File: 138 KB, 595x862, Rights of Man.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All Paine really.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:12:24 2012 No.2777754 File: 24 KB, 257x400, How the Other Half Lives - Riis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:12:25 2012 No.2777750 File: 153 KB, 510x765, Nichols-book-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Haven't read. Looks straightforward enough.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:14:24 2012 No.2777756 File: 15 KB, 220x340, Chris_Hedges_War_Is_A_Force_sm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:15:24 2012 No.2777760
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This one is really good. A lot of info about the Bushs and their many connections to what has gone on in the last 60 years or so in American politics.

http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/B004AYDAWC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&
amp;ie=UTF8&qid=1341382403&sr=1-1&keywords=family+of+secrets+by+russ+baker

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:15:24 2012 No.2777758 File: 68 KB, 325x500, Francis Perkins bio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Great bio on the very important Frances Perkins

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:16:25 2012 No.2777763 File: 110 KB, 800x800, Free Lunch - David Cay Johnston.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:18:25 2012 No.2777766 File: 398 KB, 800x1207, Erik Reinert - How Rich Countries Got Rich & Why Poor Countries Stay Poor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:20:25 2012 No.2777767 File: 39 KB, 329x483, All Things Shining.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] An introductory philosophy book with a literary bent. Lots of cool ideas. I really enjoyed it.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:22:25 2012 No.2777771 File: 623 KB, 1125x1746, Alperovitz - America Beyond Capitalism.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've only read a piece of this, and now I want it.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:24:25 2012 No.2777777 File: 83 KB, 322x500, American Sphinx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Must get to this one soon

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:27:25 2012 No.2777785 File: 379 KB, 446x633, Bettany Hughes - The Hemlock Cup.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sextuplets has it. You ALL must get to this book soon. <-This one looks cool too. I liked her shows on Youtube. Infectious sort.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:30:05 2012 No.2777794 File: 11 KB, 394x295, american-psycho-facebook-cards.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777777 >777777

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:31:06 2012 No.2777796 File: 67 KB, 262x394, Venice Pure City - Peter Ackroyd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thorough and lovely book. Interest in Venice? This is the one to get.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:31:06 2012 No.2777797 File: 155 KB, 1024x768, 1313729893641.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw I'm checking out the last two nonfiction recd by butterlyfag

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:34:06 2012 No.2777803 File: 33 KB, 525x594, 1331043600209.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777777

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:34:06 2012 No.2777804 File: 69 KB, 329x500, Ethan Allen bio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777794 You must now read American Sphinx.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:36:06 2012 No.2777807 File: 35 KB, 311x475, basque_history.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777797 Hemlock and Venice? Neat. If you insist on seeing a butterfly, call me 'butters' or something.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:39:06 2012 No.2777811 >>2777807 Hemlock and Sphinx. Already downloaded from Bib and transferred to Kindle. Will report back. I think I will start with Hemlock.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:42:06 2012 No.2777815 File: 17 KB, 301x475, Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nice quick read.

Anonymous Wed Jul 4 02:44:06 2012 No.2777819

Asking for non-fiction like that is like asking for "good music", or asking for a guide on fiction for that matter. Too broad. You'll get a list of things you will not read. Get to a starting point and go from there. Some specific interest, not just politics, but, for instance, the politics behind an event that interests you like a war, then other books on other wars, then you'll want to understand the context of the countries involved so you'll get to history books on that, and so on.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:45:10 2012 No.2777822 File: 15 KB, 212x320, Jacket.aspx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777811 Cool, thanks. Aaron Burr: There's this one and a slimmer one called The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr, by HW Brands. I'll get one of them someday.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:48:40 2012 No.2777828 File: 22 KB, 510x680, Maddow -Drift.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2777819 Agreed. And I've no idea is OP asked for my input or not. Whatever.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:50:40 2012 No.2777832 File: 98 KB, 417x616, Freedom - Lewies.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 02:53:40 2012 No.2777836
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>>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.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 03:01:40 2012 No.2777850 File: 26 KB, 460x307, z..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Kitchen confidential is a good reead ihmo.

>>	noko Wed Jul 4 03:07:43 2012 No.2777854 well if you have no mind at all of what it is you read next, other than the fact, if course, that it is non-fiction, then I suggest any of Hunter S. Thompsan's work

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 03:50:09 2012 No.2777920 >>2777733 Maybe you need to read about the depression and perhaps learn a little fucking economics while you are at it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 03:53:10 2012 No.2777937 >>2777723 >implying it wasn't a mistake >implying the jews weren't behind it all

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 03:55:10 2012 No.2777939 >>2777743 Funny how its always jews with this leftist propaganda.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Wed Jul 4 09:06:41 2012 No.2778489
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>>2777937
There were mistakes alright. Not all of them made by Jews. Some made on behalf of them. Probably to help some idiots ideal of prophecy.
>>2777939
Funny how we only suffer at the hands of rightwing, fiscally 'conservative' orthodox Jews.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 4 10:57:46 2012 No.2778789 Here's what i've been reading lately: >The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser >Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes >Consent of the Networked by Rebecca MacKinnon >The Information Diet by Clay A. Johnson

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