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EIGHT FORTY-EIGHT

Al Gini and Daniel Born—Top Political Novels

originally aired 6.17.04
Resident philosopher Al Gini and the Common Review's Daniel Born share their picks for best political novels.


Al Gini's Picks

 

Daniel Born's Picks

Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe (McGraw Hill, 1962).   Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Heinneman, 1958).
     
Allen Drury, Advise and Consent (Doubleday Books, 1959).   Joseph Conrad, Secret Agent (1907).
     
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (Random House, 1952).   Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal (Hutchinson, 1971).
     
Joe Klein/Anonymous, Primary Colors (Random House, 1996).   Graham Greene, The Quiet American (Heinemann, 1955).
     
Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994).   Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Harper and Row, 1984).
     
Edwin O'Connor, The Last Hurrah (Back Bay Books, 1985).   Ursula LeGuin, The Dispossessed (Harper and Row, 1974).
     
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962).   George Orwell, 1984 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949).
     
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Piper Brothers and Co., 1852).   John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle (Covici-Friede 1936).
     
Gore Vidal, Lincoln (Random House, 1984).   Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Books, 1992).
     
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1946).   Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (Knopf, 1981).
     
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle (Harper and Row, 1968).
     
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862).
   

 

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