If I may recommend two books on this page it would be "Conscience of a Conservative" and "Das Kapital". Read both; whichever way you lean, know thine enemy.
Some others I would submit for inclusion: "A People's History of the United States" (Howard Zinn), "The Federalist" (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay), "The Republic" (Plato), and "A Theory Of Justice" (John Rawls).
I loved Plato as a kid. I hated it, though, whenever one of the other kids would mix my blue Plato with my red or yellow Plato. Unfortunately, all you needed to do was leave the lid off your Plato, and it'd be hard as a rock the next day.
Nice one. I'm almost up to having read 3/4 of these (really oughtta get around to Animal Farm) and there isn't a single one I regret reading. Even [Politician I disagree with]'s book gave me insight into their positions that I'd never have obtained reading only [book more in line with my political views].
Animal Farm is good. I read it in middle school because it was literally the shortest book on the required reading list. I didn't really understand the political themes until I got older, but it is a great book about communism. FOUR LEGS GOOD...TWO LEGS BAD!
A very poor selection. This test is saturated with completely irrelevant books from US politicians, that have absolutely no transcendence outside their country, and will be forgotten inside it in a couple of generations. Meanwhile, there are paramount political books in the history of mankind that are missing: Plato's Republic, Aristole's Politics, Mao's Red Book, Bakunin's God and the State, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, ....
I accept this is a site predominantly used by Americans and thus there will be an American bias in the questions and answers, but this one was absolutely ridiculous. A third of the answers are former US Presidents, VP's or Presidential candidates while Plato and Mao get ignored. Come on, there is a world outside of America.
Ps, Sarah Palin "wrote" a book!?!? You learn something new every day. I assume it was written in crayon?
Having both "More" and "Moore" as answers on the same quiz seems like asking for trouble. Based on the historical significance, I would probably keep Utopia and replace Dude, Where's My Country? with something else.
I accept this is a site predominantly used by Americans and thus there will be an American bias in the questions and answers, but this one was absolutely ridiculous. A third of the answers are former US Presidents, VP's or Presidential candidates while Plato and Mao get ignored. Come on, there is a world outside of America.
Ps, Sarah Palin "wrote" a book!?!? You learn something new every day. I assume it was written in crayon?