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I want to very much QUALIFY this post by explaining my...RELUCTANCE...as it were to drop general BOOK recs. I don't want to sound meanspirited or short, but there's a tendency among intellectually curious people to believe (subconsciously or not) that EVERYTHING that is opaque in history or the POLITICAL realm of man's existence is somehow to be found in a BOOK - it ISN'T. You WILL not find, ''THE BIG BOOK of HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM and WHY YOU SHOULD NOT ABIDE the STATE RELIGION''. NOR will you find a 200 page volume of, ''WHAT the ALLIES LIED ABOUT and WHAT REALLY HAPPENED in WORLD WAR II''. Books are a TOOL - the HISTORIAN, the ANALYST, the REVISIONIST utilizes TOOLS to construct the TRUTH of the PAST and the PRESENT - just as a carpenter uses a hammer and a saw to build a HOUSE. End of SERMON. - T

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May I humbly suggest the Imperium Press edition of Maistre's Major Works vol. I. The Lively edition has excerpts of many works but we've collected his three most important political texts in their entirety, plus an introduction from the late Dr. Thomas Bertonneau of SUNY, a traditional Catholic, on Maistre's challenge to liberalism:

https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/maistre-major-works-vol-i/

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Sep 29, 2022·edited Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

I would shell out a decent amount monthly to crowdfund titles like these on audiobook with a good narrator (maybe someone with a heavy Chicago accent idk). I work a hard job with my hands all day and don't have much time for idle reading. Just saying, you do know cats in the publishing business......

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

I picked up a hard back 2 volume toland at the used bookstore for $15. I stacked it with some Nietzsche and Mishima and the clerk was alarmed.

Another “revisionist” historian that is fun to read is Claude Bowers. He’s got a series on American history and his “tragic era” about reconstruction relates the perfidy of the republicans in destroying the south.

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

I remember finding an extremely beat-up copy of Toland's Hitler biography in my grandparent's basement as a kid. It's a fairly long book, but not a tough read, the writing is pretty engaging. Really gets the synapses firing.

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A key element of praxis is mastery of one’s emotional reactions. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius would be a fine addition.

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

Any of you goys have Civil War book recommendations? My library has Shelby Foote, which I think I will start with. I have read very little on the subject but want to start.

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Oct 20, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

Just read Buchanan's Unnecessary War very recently. Reading that in the context of NATO and Ukraine is alarming. The build-up to both of these wars is identical.

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

Really interesting list!! - much to feed the mind. Thrilled to see Irving in there. I would have included Solzhenitsyn, but that’s just me. I know it is literally impossible to find a physical copy of ‘200 Years Together...’ Spencer Quinn does provide an overview of the banned text in Antelope Hill’s ‘Solzhenitsyn - an Introduction’ which came out in 2021. Skeptical Waves also did an audio-book version on Odysee some months’ ago. Many thanks 🙏

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

Hey, I can actually check one of those books off the list!

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

Where is a good place to get David Irving’s books? They are not cheap on amazon and hard to find elsewhere.

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Nov 6, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

sere here

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by RealThomas777

T h a n k y o u v e r y m u c h

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Interesting to see Rothbard on the list. What do you find interesting about that particular book?

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Sun and Steel - Yukio Mishimi, also Spring Snow I would add to this

The Iliad- Homer

Storm and Steel- Ernst Junger

The Art of being Ruled- Wyndham Lewis

The medium is the message- Marshall McLuhan (Wasn't so much a dissident himself but really interesting and profound ideas about media)

Also most things from Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer.

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Why Dune? Self-mythologization for dissidents?

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