Books for Christmas or Hanukkah
I have read all these (except the ones I wrote which I
skimmed) and recommend them. I'm giving some of them as gifts myself, and have
given others in the past. Fiction isat the end. ~Bob
For the political junkie on your list:
Basic Economics by Dr. Thomas Sowell
Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed
on Discrimination? By Dr. Walter E. Williams
Race and Culture: A World View. By Dr. Thomas Sowell
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are
Divided by Politics and Religion. By Jonathan Haidt
Lords of the Levee: The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink. By
Llyod Wendt, Herman Kogan and Bette Jore.
Political Humor
If you are a political junkie, I recommend two great
collections of political humor and stories by my Senate Floor Leader, the late
Sen. John Parker: The Fun and Laugher of
Politics and If Elected, I Promise.
Both are long out of print, but you can often find them used on Amazon.com for
not much money, especially the first one, which was published in the 1970s. No,
you cannot borrow my signed copies.
The Coming Collapse of the American Republic:
And what you can do to prevent it by Robert A. Hall
All royalties go to The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund to help wounded veterans.
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes
the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
A tough look at the UK by a psychiatrist. It's culture,
not race, which is the problem.
For the person interested in
the challenge of political Islam:
A pro-Islam
view.
Mohammad & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
by Emmet Scott.
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics,
Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia by Robert Lacey
For the Marine on your list:
War Shots. Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen
of World War II. By Charles Jones
http://www.warshotsbook.com/
(For autographed copy)
Never Without Heroes by Lawrence
C. Vetter
Road of 10,000 Pains: The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S.
Marines, 1967 by Otto J. Lehrack
Pride and Discipline: The Hallmarks of a United States
Marine. By Colonel Donald J.
Myers USMC (Ret)
Noble Warrior: The Life and Times of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston,
USMC
Old Jarhead Poems: The Heart of a Marine by
Robert A. Hall
All author royalties go to The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund to help wounded veterans. This
collection of Marine poetry was awarded
the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s 2012 Robert A. Gannon writing award for
poetry.
Eddie Grabowski's Gift: A Marine Christmas
Story by Robert A. Hall
Eddie Grabowski’s Gift
is a short novella, with an old Marine’s lessons on life, love and giving. All
author royalties are donated to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation to support
the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
For that special 'tween or teen on your list:
Advice for my Granddaughter: For When I’m
Gone by Robert A. Hall
All author royalties are donated to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Advice for Boys: From an Old Marine by Robert A. Hall
All author’s
royalties are donated to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
For your college student:
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos
and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good
Life by Charles Murray
For the shooter on your list:
Firearm Fundamentals: How to be a safe and confident shooter. By
Gary L. Behr, CPC
For the History Buff on your list:
The First World War by John Keegan
Washington's
Crossing by David Hackett Fisher
Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle
East By John Keay.
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. By Herbert G. Gutman
The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise And Fall
Of The Zulu Nation. By Donald R. Morris
The Passing of Armies: An Account Of The
Final Campaign Of The Army Of The Potomac. By Joshua Chamberlain
For the Thriller Fan:
Countdown: The Liberators. By Tom Kratman
First of a series.
Iran
Covenant by Chet Nagle
The Woolsorter’s Plague by Chet Nagle
For the Science Fiction Fan:
Caliphate by Tom Kratman
A Desert Called Peace By Tom Kratman
First of a series.
Semper Fidelis
Robert A. Hall
www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com
Books by Robert A. Hall: http://tartanmarine.
"I
have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company.
We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we
are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no
one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." --1st. Lt.
Clifton B. Cates, Navy Cross, 2 Distinguished Service Crosses, (later
Commandant), USMC, July 19, 1918 commanding 96 Company, 6th Marines,
near the French town of Soissons.
"Casualties: many, Percentage of dead: not known, Combat efficiency: we are winning." --Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, MOH, (later Commandant) Tarawa, 21 November 1943. Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share. --Captain J.E. "Ned" Dolan, USMC (Ret.) Platoon Leader E/2/7, Korean War
We fight not for
glory, nor for riches, nor for honour, but only and alone for Freedom,
which no good man lays down but with his life. --Declaration of
Arbroath, Scotland, 1320
In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. —Edward Gibbon Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
"I have been made victorious through terror" (Bukhari 4.52.220) --Mohammad.
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