Agit8r
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My boy is 16 and my girl will be 14 too soon to contemplate. They will be voters soon!
I am going to ask them to read three basic books on politics if they read nothing else.
Federalist papers
Machiavellis's Discourses on Livy's Roman History
Road to Serfdom.
What three books would you recommend to a new voter?
Modern Times- Paul Johnson
De Toqueville- Democracy in America
Adam Smith- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
the chances of your child of getting through any of those is, well Johnson is probably doable at that age inho, the rest, hey, a chapter a week- read discuss...
Around 16 on, sure. I was reading Plutarch when I was 16...so its all good.
haha. yes they'll get to those right after War and Peace