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Here are a few comments on the books I recommend for Politics.
An excellent booklet on the virtues required of all leaders.
"A step-by-step guide to the rules for meetings of your club, civic, or charitable organization". Democracy requires we have to figure out what the group wants. One of the things required for this is rules to run meetings in an orderly way. (Note this isn't enough, since if the attendees are incompetent or vicious, they will make bad decisions.)
The (very left-leaning) authors seem to ignore the existence of the 2nd finger of the Philosopher's Glove, since they constantly use words like "diversity", "value", "law", "multiculturalism", etc., without ever explaining what they are talking about. On the other hand, it's better than the state of ignorance I was in, before reading this book.
Sigh! Dear Dale! How my life would have been different if I had listened to your advice!
On the other hand, this book is not a morality guide! If you have an iron hand, this book can help you weave a velvet glove to put over it. But if you don't have an iron hand, this book is only a recipe to have "success" in this life, and to burn for eternity.
The first Economics book I've ever read (and on Nov. 22, 2006, the only one! and actually, I haven't quite finished it yet!), so I'm certainly not an expert.
I would skip Part 1 (chapters 1 to 7), since it is heavily polluted with Post-Modernism. This book also needs to be complemented with the CoSoDo and a sound basis in Moral Philosophy. But apart from those huge shortcomings, the author is funny, interesting, easy to understand, and he seems to make a genuine effort to give a complete introduction to the topic. Also, being a "left-leaning" economist, he is a good antidote to the current blatant right-wing pro-free market propaganda that is ubiquitous in magazines such as The Economist.