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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. His vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal --a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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Advise and Consent
by Allen Drury
Morton Blackwell considers this "the great American political novel," and it's easy to understand why. Allen Drury introduces the reader not only to the inner workings of the United States Senate, but also to the very human realities of our elected officials. His novel is filled with vivid, believable characters, dealing with extremely realistic problems and issues. That he knows the Senate from an insider's perspective becomes more obvious with every turn of the page.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
William Golding's classic tale -- for which (in part) he received a Nobel Prize in Literature -- about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island. Just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954, no modern piece of literature better illustrates -- without the slightest discussion of theology -- the doctrine of human depravity and the Founding Fathers' understanding of the need for checks and balances. |
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Byzantium
by Stephen R. Lawhead
Lawhead's magnificent Byzantium is an epic centering about an exotic, fabulous city steeped in myth and history. Joining a small, select band of monks to present a book to the Roman ("Byzantine") Emperor himself, Aidan begins a journey from Ireland across the Narrow Sea to the Mediterranean, and into the glittering heart of the 9th century East Roman Empire and the fabled city Byzantium (or Constantinople) itself. One of the best and most engrossing books of the decade. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer prize; thirty years later shopping malls may have replaced the main street of Maycomb, Alabama, but not even thirty years of Civil Rights laws or the gentrification of ante-bellum estates render this book an anachronism. Harper Lee combines two of the most common themes of Southern writing -- a child's recollection of life among eccentrics in a small town seemingly untouched by the twentieth century and the glaring injustice of racial prejudice -- to create a contemporary American classic. |
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1984
by George Orwell
Perhaps the most influential dystopian novel of the 20th century, 1984 paints the picture of a totalitarian world (on the Soviet model, if not by the Soviet name). Written in an already dark 1948, with Britain devestated by war, its empire disintegrating, and socialism rising in the west and dominating the east, 1984 struck a chord and sounded a warning; and its message still resonates today. |
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction)
Ayn Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged is one of the 20th Century's true masterpieces, as well as Rand's most powerful statement for liberty. Morton Blackwell has called it "a very long essay masquerading as a very long novel"; and though this is true, both the essay and the novel are extraordinary.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
Read Rod D. Martin's review of Atlas Shrugged.
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Exodus
by Leon Uris
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon -- the towering novel of one of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical events. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of Israel in the midst of its enemies -- the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus, one of the great best-selling novels of all time. |
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
Jack Burden is the former newspaperman who learns from Gov. Willie Stark the extent to which flowers grow in manure and that good in man's fallen state comes all too mixed with evil. Based on the life of Huey Long, Stark is one of the greatest of American literary creations. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947, and the author later became America's first Poet Laureate. |
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