A book that really blew me away when I read it was Hayek's Fatal Conceit.
I was disappointed by the road to serfdom and didn't have
high expectations for fatal conceit, but the scope of the theory and
sheer fun of the huge ideas involved made it a great read. This is some
years ago, and I don't
My book recommendations are anything by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky (separately -- unless they've written in collaboration and I don't know about it); Lies My Teacher Told Me, by Loewen; the Native Tongue Trilogy, written by feminist linguist and sci-fi author Suzette Elgin-Haden, especially the
