University Reading List (politcal books). Any recommended additions?

[zasterguava]

I'm starting a degree in Politic's next year and have complied a list of books (loosely categorised) to read in preperation (and of general interest) and was wandering if anyone has any recommendations for either books to take off, or to add. I have already read alot of the anarchist and socialist writings (other than those listed) and as such would most like to hear recommendations for economic books and books concerning current issues; globalisation, Iraq, etc. Below is the list I have compiled so far all of which I have yet to read (in their entirety):
Classics
Hobbes's Leviathan
Plato, The Republic
Aristotle’s Politics,
Hobbes’s Leviathan,
Locke’s Two Treatises
Rousseau’s 2nd Discourse & Social Contract,
Marx-collected works
Mill’s On Liberty,
Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
David Hume's Philosophical Politics
Principles of Government
Hegel-Elements of the Philosophy of Right
-Philosophy of history
Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
Thomas Paine- Rights of Man
Jeremy Bentham- The Works Of…

Afganistan
-On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World/ Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam, Jason Burke

Socialism
Robert Owen, A New View of Society
Alexander Herzen- My Past and Thoughts

Iraq
-Galbraith, Peter (2006), The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End
A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq- Christopher Hitchens

US- Current
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal

Russian Revolution
-A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes


Kosovo
?

Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War - Canto S. by Gerald Brenan
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas

Globalization
-False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, John Gray


Philosophy
The Theory of Moral Sentiment; Adam smith
Civilisation, its Cause and Cure, Edward Carpenter (socialist)
Any Rand; Atlas Shrugged
Singer, Peter, 2001. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction.
Nietzsche- The Birth of Tragedy
Anthony Kenny- The Oxford History of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell- History of Western Philosophy

Other
-Out of Place: A Memoir - Edward Said
-Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World -Edward Said
-KOBA THE DREAD, Martin Amis
-Bertrand Russell- Why I am not a Christian
- The Autobiography
-Locke, John. 1988. Two Treatises of Government,
-Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1987. The Basic Political Writings,
-On Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics (Berg, 1996). Dt Carl Levy
-Arendt, The Human Condition
-On Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics (Berg, 1996). Dt Carl Levy
-Kenneth Waltz-Theory of International Politics
-Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
-Democracy in America, de Tocqueville
-The Twenty Years' Crisis-EH Carr
-Chomsky on 9/11
-Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
-The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
-Max Stirner; the ego and his own
E.P. Thompson; The Making of the English Working Class
Michael McClintock; Instruments of Statecraft
-Gabriel Kolko; Politics of War in 1968
-Martin Amis, Experience

Religion
-The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach
-Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Israel Shahak
-The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein


Economics
-Hayek-The Constitution of Liberty
-The Road to Serfdom- Hayek
-The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), Keynes
-Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development And Current State
-Capitalism and Freedom- Milton Friedman
-Freakonomics, Levitt

Collections:
-Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle
-The Portable Renaissance Reader, McLaughin
-Hazard, Paul European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing
-Wolff, J. (1996) An Introduction to Political Philosophy
-Carver and J. Martin (eds), Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought
-Fleisher, Martin ed. Machiavelli and the Nature of Political Thought
-Anthony Kenny The Oxford History of Philosophy
-History of Philosophy; Vorlander

Liberalism
-Ackerman, Bruce A. Social Justice in the Liberal State
-Galston, William A. Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State Cambridge
-Gerber, Larry G. The Limits of Liberalism
-Rawls, Political Liberalism


Marx
-Bottomore, Tom ed. Modern Interpretations of Marx
-Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. 1978. The Marx-Engels Reader, ed., R. Tucker.
-Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx

Anarchism
-Gramsci and the Anarchists (Berg, 1999)
-No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism, Daniel Guerin
-Chosmky on Anarchism
-Alexander Berkman, ABC of Anarchism
-A Concise History of the Great Trial of the Chicago Anarchists, by Dyer Lum
-Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within you, War and Peace. 1900 essay, "On Anarchy"
-Fourier, Charles. Design for Utopia: Selected Writings. Studies in the Libertarian and Utopian Tradition

[Jamougha]

I can't believe it's me saying this, but get a life?

[zasterguava]

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I can't believe it's me saying this, but get a life?

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I'm interested in politics and my reading of political books has completely comsumed my reading of fiction. Degree doesnt start till next Ocotber, so reading 1 book a week hardly warrants such a jibe.

[bobman0330]

The Federalist Papers
Machiavelli's Discourses
Collected Works of Isaiah Berlin
Maybe the Analects and the writing of Han Fei-tzu?

[Misfire]

The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman - I haven't read it yet, but it was recommended by posters on this forum.

The Anti-Federalist Papers

The Real Lincoln by Thomas Dilorenzo

Basic Economics / Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (you could finish this one in an afternoon).

The Law by Frederick Bastiat

[warrantofice]

so i feel stupid

[moorobot]

Based on your list and the current curriculum in politics I believe that you should read more empirical literature; and given general trends in the social sciences you probably should read something on evolution. For economics, you should read stuff in political economy as that is what faculty in a Politics department will be working with, not economics as a whole.

I would suggest, in order of importance:

Growing Public, Peter Lindert (empirical/political economy)
States and Markets (A Primer in Political Economy, Adam Przeworski
Hierarchy in the Forest, Boehm
Evolution of Cooperation, Axelrod
Blank Slate, Pinker

[moorobot]

Hmmm...as for taking off...definitely take off Hegel's books. His works are extremely difficult and obscure and almost no social scientists in the English speaking world are heavily influenced by him. An introduction to him by a contemporary author should be enough. (Relatedly, Rawls Theory of Justice definitely should be read in lieu of Nozick if you are only going to read one contemporary classic...It is exponentially more influential; most political theorists compare their own theory to Rawls's explicitly and do not even mention Nozick; in fact of you only read one book on political theory/philosophy period it probably should be Rawls's Theory of Justice; you simply can't understand contemporary political theory without underestanding it).

[xorbie]

Reading up on Hegel is interesting, but reading Hegel directly is tough. Locke sucks and slugging through an entire book of his would be a shame. Try to read some Nietzsche.

[BCPVP]

The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard. It's even available free online in pdf and mp3.

Ambitious list, though. Good luck with it.