Next week is book week. In addition to regularly unscheduled posts, I will post a short book review each day. FlynnFiles readers recommended a few of these books to me. Is there a book that you recommend to the FlynnFiles readership? If so, give your two cents in the comments section below. I'll return on Monday with a book review, and posts on whatever is interesting.

Five quick recommendations:

1. The New Dealer's War by Thomas Fleming, a critical account of FDR and the war behind World War II.

2. As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn. An icon of the Old Right takes a look at the historical development of fascism in Italy and Germany and notes somes striking parallels in the New Deal system.

3. The Illusion of Victory by Thomas Fleming. I just finished this a few weeks ago. One of the blurbs on the jacket of the book says, "Fleming takes meat cleaver to Wilson's foreign and see just what that reviewer is talking about.

4. The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn. A history of the New Deal and the Roosevelt presidency by one of FDR's most vehement critics. (I found this book at my university's library, but you can read it online absolutely free here.)

5. The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo. DiLorenzo provides a relentless assault on the Lincoln paradigm, demonstrating that the right of secession was virtually unquestioned in early America and that the War Between the States was not formulated as a humanitarian mission to "free the slaves" but to perserve a voluntary Union by brute force and permanently destroy political decentralization in America.

1. Deliver us from evil by sean hannity
2. because he could by dick morris
3. how to talk to a liberal (if you have to) by anne coulter

1) A Necessary Evil by Gary Wills
2) Up From Conservatrism by Michael Lind
3) Beautiful Losers by Sam Francis

Sounds like Goblin has been hannitized.

Sounds like Obi Juan has been David-Brockized.

By no means are the first two books on my list conservative books, but they do pose questions to conservatives that are usually left unanswered. Can we afford to leave questions unanswered? I think not. Dan Flynn seems like a good guy to answer a few of the questions posed.

And Sam Francis' book should be reviewed just because.

It may not be the best book on the subject, but Allen Wheelis' The End of the Modern Age might help you appreciate where post-modernism comes from a little more.

It is not necessarily always in service to multiculturalism and the like. And is not simply synonomous with Deconstructionism.

Comming up for air -George Orwell
A small treatise on the great virtues- Andre Compte-Spoonvile
Ironweed- William Kennedy
The collected short stories- William Trevor
Titan- Ron Chernow
These are some of the books that I have either read or re-read in the past few years. Ironweed I read 15 years ago in school but I still re read some parts. It is very good, and Kennedy was friendly with Hunter Thompson who won't be down for breakfast. Trevor is the best post-war short story writer on the planet. Titan gave me great respect for John D. Comming Up For Air is Orwells best and most under rated.

1. God and Ronald Reagan (Dr. Paul Kengor)
2. Hitler's Willing Executioner's: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Daniel Goldhagen)
3. A Moral Reckoning: Pope Pius, the Catholic Church and the Holocaust (Goldhagen)
4. The Contract of Mutual Indifference (Norman Geras)
5. A Problem From Hell:America and the Age of Genocide (Samantha Powers)

Alot of these deal with various cases of genocide that I have found very interesting.

Vendors on Benders...the inside story of the degenerate life of Fenway Park vendor-Paul D
The Jimmy the Greek Story-Jimmy the Greek.
How to turn a million dollars into a case of Strohs-Anonymous

Paul

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SCH502A.html
(Click on the "video" link)

This mother LAYS IT DOWN!!!

1. Empire: the Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson. A beautifully executed book by an economist that attacks the commonly held and taught belief that the Britsh empire was just evil.

2. No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail and Stephen Thernstrom. Flattens the accepted liberal notions of how the public schools are going to eliminate the gap between black and white performance.

3. War before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley. An archaeologist fights back.

4. The Voices of Morebath by Eamon Duffy. Heartbraking story of how one Catholic priest is beaten into submission (metaphorically) by the Anglican reformers in the 16th century.

Lots of heavy reading, Dan. How about some fiction?

Til We Have Faces, CS Lewis. Unjustly forgotten.
The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Everyone reads "Hound of the Baskervilles," or "A Study in Scarlet." Grab this one up.
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller. I've always wanted to make this a mini-series. Jimmy Smits for Abbot Zerchi!
The Odyssey. Probably a slam-dunk for you. (I've read Robert Fitzgerald's translation.)
I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Robert Graves. The BBC bit with Derek Jacobi et als is also good, especially if you play the Drinking Game.

Just some stuff I've read or reread recently. (I'm not much on the modern novels. Most are snoozers.)

I highly recommend these works....

Let it ride, double down and other stupid ideas by Jack Tripper
Fremont Court the Bean Years by Paul Sasso & Dean Francis (Forward by William Kelly)
The Denim Delinquent by Chris Camellio

I just have one recommendation...

Barbed wire and ankle high nylons: The Plamondon Farm massacre by Ed Moura.

I found reading the book "Hitlers's Willing Executioner's" by Daniel Goldhagen an engaging read. I have been fascinated by the Holocaust not only for the sheer magnitude of the genocide but by the people who made it happen. Not only were the usual cast of characters headed by Hitler himself but the large population of Germany was represented.
Hats off to Mr. Goldhagen for this superb book.