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[mithridates]

This book deserves its own thread. So who plans to buy it?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/ron-paul-tops-a.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=sv_b_3

[Milwaukiedave]

I actually read part of Guliani's book I'd checked out from the library before I came to Korea (I would have finished it had I had time). I've also read one of Pat Buchanan's books as well. Neither one is liberal or a Democrat.

Would I buy Paul's book? Honestly, I probably wouldn't. For the most part I try not to buy books here in Korea given they are so expensive. If I had to guess since the book is new and a hardback, it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 38,000 won maybe more. When I go home, I tend to bring books back with me. I do agree with Paul on ending the war in Iraq.

Note: Dreams from My Father was publish in 1995 and rerelased in 2004 (second edition). The Audacity of Hope was published in 1996, so it would be a year and a half old.

I have copies of The Audacity of Hope and Living History

If anyone wants My Life (Bill Clinton's book), let me know. I've got a pdf file (though it's harder to read a book on a computer screen).

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mithridates]

Interesting interview on CNN today; Ron Paul (as do I) thinks Obama is the best of the three left standing:

[mindmetoo]

[Kuros]

I'd read the book; but I wouldn't buy it. But I don't think I even have time to read the book. But I will admit it could be a worthwhile activity.

[agentX]

I may not like Ron Paul a lot, but if given a choice between his book and MAnn Coulter's or Drunken Glenn Beck's, then I'll go with Ron Paul's.
Unlike the other 2 assholes I listed, Ron Paul is not a moron. Therefore, I am sure his book would prove to be a decent read, unlike Jonas Goldberg's or Laura Ingrate's.

[mithridates]

I've noticed that a lot of people that don't like Ron Paul would still love it if the GOP was more similar to his views, if they actually talked about small government and balanced budgets like they used to do. This is one of the reasons why I want to see a big GOP defeat this time around because if they do well it'll give them the impression that it's okay to keep going as is, with deficits, big government and overseas jaunts.

[On the other hand]

[mindmetoo]

[mithridates]

[Gopher]

The book will be entirely predictable on American foreign relations, given his tipping his hand earlier that he subscribes to Stephen Kinzer and Chalmers Johnson's views. Why read something when I already know what it is going to conclude? Why should I not go to the source and continue reading Stephen Kinzer and Chalmers Johnson?

As far as the other ideas, I understand Ron Paul's politics and I do not need to read his campaign book to better understand them. In fact, I never read these campaign books. This literature is a bit too much "New York Times Bestseller!" for my taste.

And yes, I often read books by those espousing views that are not my own. I have been forced to read militant feminist material all semester long. I have also read one and a half Scientology books because this church/cult advertises that a billion people or so have read these books and I wanted to know what a billion people have read and what L. Ron Hubbard (another wacky "Ron") told them to think about this or that.

[mindmetoo]

[mithridates]

[mindmetoo]