/lit/ - Literature

I dearly wish we had someone like Thompson to cover the current US primary/presidential campaigns. I miss his voice, and his occasional subtly brutal conclusions masked in pure a la carnivale.

He would have thought this election cycle as a divine gift.

If '72 is too long you might take to some of his more formal journalism. Track down a copy his article: Strange Rumblings in Aztlan. It makes for a good comparison to more recent events, and a reminder that how things are is how they were too.

When the closest thing we have to a white knight is struck down, what heroism remains to us? The self professed scumbags, and their little adventures though Las Vegas.

I don't think this volume generally available. You might be able to find a library copy though.

Vidal is all over the place, and isn't always original. I suspect the average 'channer will find his thoughts to be sometimes spot on, and sometimes way, way wrong. When he talks about the fun house-of-mirrors carnival that makes for our political landscape, I think most 'channers will agree.

Right or wrong, his essays are examples of some really good writing. Not all may appear political either, but …

Woodward is a hack (this book famously contains a completely fabricated deathbed scene among other bullshit hype), but his considerable insider access makes for interesting reading. Veil covers CIA shenanigans during the Reagan administration.

This is about American nuclear strategy and strategic planning from the dawn of the Cold War. The "what we think they think we think" stuff really did underlie the policy and politics of this period, the Soviet archives make it clear it nearly brought us to war the year this was published (1983).

An excellent tour of the foundational theory of its operation, and why those theories are in place. A warty no-nonsense view that trashes the indoctrination passing for an education that makes for standard undergraduate civic and history classes. Ignorance of the system does not excuse calling out everything in politics to be a lie, a position the standard news media services encourage and most people tend to resort to. What is needed is a more practical understanding of how the system came to be and why.

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>>8924

and this

>>9087

Good taste

>>9192

> the most disjointed from reality book

now thats an exaggeration if i ever heard one. what akes you eveen say this?

at any right i have no idea why i recommended republic, when aristotle's politics would be much more applicable here. im gonna blame the late hour i posted in.

>read some summed up version

of the republic or brave new world? either way i dont know why you would recommend this; neither of those books are particularly long.