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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

The Last Plantagenets by Thomas B. Costain

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

History Published in Decade: 1960s

61 books — 9 voters

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read in 2016

200 books — 12 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

2021: What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far

879 books — 53 voters

What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far in 2017

463 books — 42 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Classic Science Fiction - 1960-1969

297 books — 255 voters

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

2023: What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far

514 books — 54 voters

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“ In der absoluten Hingabe an die Wahrheit liegt mehr oder weniger der einzige Grund unseres Lebens. Nur durch das ununterbrochene Streben nach der Wahrheit können wir Freiheit und Ordnung erreichen. Die Wahrheit ist die gerechteste Ordnung überhaupt. Die absolute Wahrheit, die absolute Freiheit, die absolute Ordnung können wir nicht erreichen. Alles ist auf dem Wege. ”
― Rudi Dutschke

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“ The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability. This could be achieved when the German steel barons were forced to deal with and to receive socially Hitler's the housepainter and self-admitted former derelict, as it could be with the crude and vulgar forgeries perpetrated by the totalitarian movements in all fields of intellectual life, insofar as they gathered all the subterranean, nonre The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability. This could be achieved when the German steel barons were forced to deal with and to receive socially Hitler's the housepainter and self-admitted former derelict, as it could be with the crude and vulgar forgeries perpetrated by the totalitarian movements in all fields of intellectual life, insofar as they gathered all the subterranean, nonrespectable elements of European history into one consistent picture. From this viewpoint it was rather gratifying to see that Bolshevism and Nazism began even to eliminate those sources of their own ideologies which had already won some recognition in academic or other official quarters. Not Marx's dialectical materialism, but the conspiracy of 300 families; not the pompous scientificality of Gobineau and Chamberlain, but the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"; not the traceable influence of the Catholic Church and the role played by anti-clericalism in Latin countries, but the backstairs literature about the Jesuits and the Freemasons became the inspiration for the rewriters of history. The object of the most varied and variable constructions was always to reveal history as a joke, to demonstrate a sphere of secret influences of which the visible, traceable, and known historical reality was only the outward façade erected explicitly to fool the people. To this aversion of the intellectual elite for official historiography, to its conviction that history, which was a forgery anyway, might as well be the playground of crackpots, must be added the terrible, demoralizing fascination in the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts, that man may be free to change his own past at will, and that the difference between truth and falsehood may cease to be objective and become a mere matter of power and cleverness, of pressure and infinite repetition. Not Stalin’s and Hitler's skill in the art of lying but the fact that they were able to organize the masses into a collective unit to back up their lies with impressive magnificence, exerted the fascination. Simple forgeries from the viewpoint of scholarship appeared to receive the sanction of history itself when the whole marching reality of the movements stood behind them and pretended to draw from them the necessary inspiration for action. ...more ”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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