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World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler

317 Pgs (c) 2008, James Howard Kunstler, Atlantic Monthly Press
Broward County Library. Read 02/07/09 Blog 02/09/09

Following a complete collapse of the government, a small town in upstate New York muddles along with antique tools and comes to terms with the new reality.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

52 hours 9 minutes Narrated: Christopher Hurt
(c)1957 Ayn Rand, (c)1985 renewed Eugene Winick, Paul Gitlin, and Leonard Peikoff, Introduction (c)1992 Leonard Peikoff; (P)1991 Blackstone Audio Inc.
Purchased from Audible. Completed 01/23/09

This is a big, sprawling circus of book that springs from an eccentric family tree. Atlas Shrugged is direct descendant of both Adam Smith and the bodice-ripper, it also shares kinship with Animal Farm, Gulliver's Travels, Oryx and Crake and Fahrenheit 451.

Utopia 1976 by Morris L. Ernst

 

Purchased from Athenaeum via Amazon • 305 pgs (c)1953 Rinehart & Company, Inc. (Read 01/09/05)

In the 1950s, Morris Ernst predicted what a Utopian world would look like in 1976.