February 23, 2018 - Hour 1
from The Seth Leibsohn Show Hosted by The Seth Leibsohn Show
What helped you change your life? You can get a lot from great writers of the past. Our Sales Director Steve tells his story. Bill Bennett's list of reading for high school students: Shakespeare's plays, especially ''Macbeth'' and ''Hamlet." Fifty percent cited such documents of United States history as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. ' 'Huckleberry Finn.'' -The Bible. - Homer's ''Odyssey'' and ''Iliad.'' - Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' and ''Tale of Two Cities.'' - Plato's ''Republic.'' - John Steinbeck's ''Grapes of Wrath.'' - Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''Scarlet Letter.'' - Sophocles' ''Oedipus.'' - Melville's ''Moby Dick.'' - Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four.'' - Thoreau's ''Walden.'' - The poems of Robert Frost. - Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass.'' - F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''Great Gatsby.'' - Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales.'' - Marx's ''Communist Manifesto.'' - Aristotle's ''Politics.'' - The poems of Emily Dickinson. - Dostoyevsky's ''Crime and Punishment.'' - The novels of William Faulkner. - J. D. Salinger's ''Catcher in the Rye.'' - De Tocqueville's ''Democracy in America.'' - Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice.'' - The essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. - Machiavelli's ''Prince.''
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