The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse
(New York: St. Martin's, 2017), 320
I lent my copy of this with my notes to an acquaintance and never received it back. These are partial notes from perusal in 2022-03.
Part I: Our Passivity Problem
Chapter 1: Stranded in Neverland
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Chapter 2: From Little Citizens to Baby Einsteins
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Chapter 3: More School Isn't Enough
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Part II: An Active Program
Chapter 4: Flee Age Segregation
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Chapter 5: Embrace Work Pain
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Chapter 6: Consume Less
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Chapter 7: Travel to See
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Chapter 8: Build a Bookshelf
Summary: Sasse suggests building a bookshelf of sixty of the most important works to return to again and again.
Sasse's 60-book shelf includes:
- God
- Greek roots
- Ethics by Aristotle
- Crito by Plato
- The Odyssey by Homer
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Three Thebian Plays by Sophocles
- Homesick Souls
- Confessions by St. Augustine
- Why God Became Man by Anselm of Canterbury
- Bondage of the Will by Luther
- Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
- Emile by Rousseau
- Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- Julius Caesar
- Macbeth
- The American Idea
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Constitution
- The Federalist Papers
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
- Markets
- Politics by Aristotle
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Market Revolution by Charles Sellers
- Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Tyrants
- Communist Manifesto by Marx
- Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
- The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Nature of Things
- On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Elements of Geometry by Euclid
- American Fiction
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Death Comes for the Archbishop and O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Chapter 9: Make America an Idea Again
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Topic: Parenting, Reading Lists, Politics
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Created: 2022-03-06-Sun
Updated: 2024-10-28-Mon