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Since he\u2019s become President, Donald Trump has tweeted book recommendations for Americans, a virtual book club of sorts.\u00a0 However, in Ben Sasse\u2019s \u201cThe Vanishing American Adult,\u201d the Nebraska Senator has his own list of books for any well-read person.\u00a0 (No, \u201cThe Art of the Deal\u201d didn\u2019t make the list.)<\/p>\n
Category One: God<\/strong><\/p>\n First eleven chapters of Genesis<\/p>\n Matthew is the grittiest gospel<\/p>\n Romans is a systematic theology of the whole Bible<\/p>\n Martin Luther\u2019s Commentary on Galatians<\/em><\/p>\n John Calvin\u2019s The Institutes of Christian Religion<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Category Two: Greek Roots<\/strong><\/p>\n Aristotle\u2019s Ethics<\/p>\n Plato\u2019s Crito<\/p>\n Homer\u2019s the Odysset<\/p>\n Thucydides\u2019s History of the Peloponnesian War<\/p>\n Sophicles\u2019s Three Theben Plays<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Category Three: Homesick Souls (or Fundamental Anthropology)<\/strong><\/p>\n Augustine\u2019s Confessions<\/em><\/p>\n Anselm of Canterbury\u2019s Why God Became Man<\/em><\/p>\n Martin Luther\u2019s In Bondage with the Will<\/em><\/p>\n Thomas Aquinas\u2019s Summa Theologica<\/em><\/p>\n Chaucer\u2019s Canterbury Tales<\/em><\/p>\n Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u2019s Emile<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Category Four: Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n Romeo and Julie<\/p>\n Hamlet<\/p>\n King Lear<\/p>\n Julius Caesar<\/p>\n Macbeth<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Category Five: The American Idea<\/strong><\/p>\n Lincoln\u2019s Declaration of Independence<\/p>\n The Federalist Papers<\/p>\n Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s Democracy in America<\/p>\n Frederick Douglass\u2019s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave<\/p>\n The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Category Six: Markets<\/strong><\/p>\n Aristotle\u2019s Politics<\/em><\/p>\n Adam Smith\u2019s Wealth of Nations<\/em><\/p>\n