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Reading List Spring 06 Choose one each quarter 1st Quarter The Last of the Mohicans- JF Cooper Democracy in America- A DeTocqueville John Adams- David McCullough The Wealth of Nations- Adam Smith Undaunted Courage- Stephen Ambrose Benjamin Frankin: An American Life- Walter Isaacson Alexander Hamilton- Ron Chernow His Excellency: George Washington- Joseph Ellis 1776- David McCullough ======================================== Required: Common Sense- Thomas Paine ======================================== 2nd Quarter Moby Dick- Herman Melville The Life of Andrew Jackson- Robert Remini Frankenstein- Mary Shelley Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee- Dee Brown Pudd'nhead Wilson- Mark Twain ======================================== Required: Civil Disobedience- Henry David Thoreau ======================================== 3rd Quarter The Jungle- Upton Sinclair Black Boy- Richard Wright The Souls of Black Folk- WEB Dubois Theodore Rex- Edmund Morris Frankin and Winston- Jon Meacham The Bedford Boys- Alex Kershaw ======================================== Required: The Communist Manifesto- Marx and Engels ======================================== 4th Quarter The Autobiography of Malcolm X- as told to Alex Haley Silent Spring- Rachel Carson The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan All the President's Men- Woodward and Bernstein 1984- George Orwell Lies My Teacher Told Me- James Loewen ======================================== Required: The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli ======================================== |