The Book Club

Books that have greatly influenced the decisions and arguments I make on behalf of the people of the Second District of Illinois.

Civil War
		General James Longstreet in the West
	James Longstreet the Man the Soldier the Controversy	God and General Longstreet
	35 Days to Gettysburg

Pickett's Charge
Double Canister at Ten Yards	Leader of the Charge
	Pickett's Charge: Eyewitness Accounts		Longstreet's Assault: The Lost Record of Pickett's Wounded
Pickett's Charge

Supreme Court

G.W.F. Hegel
Aesthetics Lectures on Fine Art	Allegories of History After Hegel
The Company of Words by McCumber			The Disenchantment of Reason
Early Theological Writings	Endings by Comay	Feminist Interpretations	From Hegel to Existentialism
	From Hegel to Marx	From Hegel to Neitche
	G.W.F. Hegel: Theologian of the Spirit

Cornel West

Michael Eric Dyson
			Making Malcolm

Henry Louis Gates
			Black Literature and Literary Theory
	Loose Canons

The books of Gary Wills
	Roman Culture	Values Americans Live By
Nixon Agonistes	Under God: Religion and American Politics

Selected Books by and about Martin Luther King
	Search for the Beloved Community by Kenneth Smith
Where Do We Go From Here, Chaos or Community by Martin Luther King

All the Works of Samuel Dewitt Proctor
How Shall They Hear?			The Certain Sound of the Trumpet
Sam Proctor: My Moral Odyssey

Adam Smith

Bartlett and Steele

James McPherson

Michael Harrington
	The Accidental Century	Socialism: Past and Future	Decade of Decision
Fragments of the Century	The Long Distance Runner	The New American Poverty	The Next Left: The History of a Future
The Politics at God's Funeral	The Vast Majority: A Journey to the World's Poor	Taking Sides: The Education of a Militant Mind	Toward a Democratic Left
The Twilight of Capitalism

Personal Financial Freedom
Super Self: Doubling Your Personal Effectiveness

African American History

Rev. Jesse Jackson and Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.