From NEW LIBERTARIAN NOTES #5, Summer, 1971 (as reprinted in NLN #32)

"READING LIST OF DR. SAMUEL RUSSELL"
"obtained" by Richard A. Friedman

This is the promised list of books that Dr. Samuel Russell gave his son Kip so that he might acquire the education he was not getting in school. It is not a list of the best books ever written, although it contains some of them, nor indeed a canon of any kind, but simply books that Dr. Russell thought that Kip should read and study. The availability of books to the individual is a better educator than the enforcement of schooling on the masses. So here's an alternative to high school:

MATHEMATICS
9th Year Math--Sam Jaffee (yes, that Sam Jaffee)
11th Year Math--AMSCO Books
Plane Geometry--Barnett Rich
Analytical Geometry--Lehman
Men of Mathematics--Eric Temple Bell (John Taine)
An Introduction to Calculus--Kline

CHEMISTRY
Vitalized Chemistry--(AMSCO, I think)
General Chemistry--Thomas L. Brown
Orgasmic Chemistry--Morrison and Boyd
Physical Chemistry--Walter J. Moore (Ref.)
Biochemistry and Human Metabolism--Walker, Boyd, and Haber
Space Medicine--Asimov
Extraterrestrial Medicine--Stapp
Space Medicine--Struchold (Those four were given to him by Mr. Charton, the pharmacist).
Necronomicon--Abdul al Hazred

PHYSICS
1,2,3,...Infinity--Gamow (It seems even Dr. Russell was at a loss to find a good introductory Physics book.)

BIOLOGY
(?)--T.H. Huxley and Wells
The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (Biology Sections)-- Asimov
A subscription toBio Notes, Room 822, Main Building, New York University, Washington Square, New York, NY 10003

ASTRONOMY
Intelligent Life in the Universe--Shklovsky and Sagan

ECONOMICS
Economics--Samuelson
Capital--Marx
On Function--Dekker
Human Action--Von Mises

HISTORY
The Outline of History--Wells
The Story of Civilization--Will & Ariel Durant
The Oxford History of the American People--Samuel Eliot Morrison

POLITICS
The Republic--Plato
Second Treatise on Civil Government--Locke
The Declaration of Independence--Jefferson
The Constitution of the United States The Prince--Machiavelli
Atlas Shrugged--Rand
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress andStarship Troopers--Heinlein

BIOGRAPHY
The Apology,Crito,Phaedo--Plato

FICTION
The Lord of the Rings--Tolkien
Don Quixote--Cervantes

POETRY AND DRAMA
The Iliad--Homer
Songs of Innocence and Experience--Blake
Theban Plays: Oedipus,Poedipus at Colonus, Antigone--Sophocles
King Lear--Shakespeare
Man and Superman--Shaw

FOUR GENERAL GUIDES TO LITERATURE
The back of any issue ofClassics Illustrated
Good Reading--Signet Books
The Story of the World's Literature--John Macy (HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION)
Towards a Theory of Science Fiction--John J. Pierce

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