Jack Layton Personal Library

Jack Layton Personal Library

Jack Layton was a Canadian social democratic politician who led the New Democrat Party – 2003-2011 – from 13 Members of Parliament to 103. Born on July 18, 1950, Layton died on August 22, 2011 after suffering from cancer. As can be expected, there were many political books in his personal library, which was not as diverse as many of the other successful people whom we have featured. Jack Layton was highly educated, “graduated in political science from McGill University with a BA (1970) and from York University with an MA (1971) and a PhD (1984). His PhD thesis dealt with globalization.” Canadian Encyclopedia 

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I used a random number generator to select 77 books from the 1,166 books that were in his personal library. Because there were so many political books in his library, I opted to replace some of the randomly selected titles because I would not read some of those books, and I  am assuming that my readers would not want to read some of them as well. In the event that I made an incorrect decision, not to worry, the link to Library Thing below, will take you directly to Jack Layton’s personal library, and you can browse the selection of books. This installment in the series of the personal libraries of successful people was made possible by Library Thing. How many of the books on the list below have you read?

77 Books from Jack Layton’s Personal Library (Randomly selected) 

1. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition, Randy Shilts
2. Blaming the Victim, William Ryan
3. Unacceptable Risk: The Nuclear Power Controversy, McKinley C. Olson
4. Cicero: De re Publica (On the Republic) , De Legibus (On the Laws) (Loeb Classical Library No. 213), De Legibus Cicero
5. Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter, James S. Hirsch
6. Class Struggle In Africa, Kwame Nkrumah
7. Rising Prices: Why Inflation Hasn't Been Licked, H. Lukin Robinson
8. History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet
9. Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1864-68 (Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works), Karl Marx
10. The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide: A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between Tide-Marks, Augusta Arnold
11. Hegel, Charles Taylor
12. The Rights of Man (Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Oxford World's Classics)), Thomas Paine
13. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx
14. Lehrbuch Der Neuhebraischen Sprache Und Litteratur (German Edition), H L and Siegfried Strack, C
15. Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series), Stephen Lewis
16. State Of Earth Atlas, Joni Seager
17. Winnipeg 1919: the strikers' own history of the Winnipeg general strike, Winnipeg Defence Committee
18. Cold War Blues: The Operation Dismantle Story, T. James Stark
19. Becoming An Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression
20. Global Warming: Greenpeace Report, Jeremy Leggett
21. Tragic Deception: Marx Contra Engels (Twentieth century series; 8), Norman Levine
22. Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development (3rd Edition), Craig Larman
23. Beyond Labeling: The Role of Maternal Input in the Acquisition of Richly Structured Categories (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development), Susan Gelman
24. Fidel: A Critical Portrait, Tad Szulc
25. Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World, Andrew Weaver
26. Utopia (Penguin Classics), Thomas More
27. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Open Forum), Ivan Illich

28. 

    The Nature of Economies (Modern Library), Jane Jacobs

29. Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State, Stephen Clarkson
30. The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time, John Kenneth Galbraith
31. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen: Canada and Democracy in the Age of Globalization, Murray Dobbin
32. Here's Looking at Us: Celebrating 50 Years of CBC TV, Stephen Cole
33. Nisga'A: People of the Nass
34. An Open Letter to the Party [A Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto], Jacek Kuron, and Modzelewski, Karol, and Harman, Chris
35. Breaking faith: The Mulroney legacy of deceit, destruction, and disunity, Brooke Jeffrey
36. Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, Robert James Waller
37. Toward a Marxist Theory of Nationalism, Horace B. Davis
38. Building Cities That Work, Edmund P. Fowler
39. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
40. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
41. Passion for Action in Child and Family Services: Voices from the Prairies (University of Regina Publications(UR)), Don Fuchs
42. Canadians at work, Vincenzo Pietropaolo
43. A Lasting Peace: Collected Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda, Daisaku Ikeda
44. Daughter of Fortune: A Novel, Isabel Allende
45. Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11, Barrie Zwicker
46. Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 (Canadian Social History Series), Gillian Creese
47. Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence, Sonali Kolhatkar
48. Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century?, Stephen H. Schneider
49. Globalization and Its Discontents (Norton Paperback), Joseph E. Stiglitz
50. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies (No Nonsense Guides (Verso)), Jeremy Seabrook
51. The Sound of Trumpets (Rapstone Chronicles), John Mortime
52. Whose Trade Organization?: The Comprehensive Guide to the WTO, Lori Wallach
53. Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder, Ken Greenberg
54. Paper Doll: Lessons Learned from a Life Lived in the Headlines, Luan Mitchell
55. Ragged Chain: A Sumach Mystery, Vivian Meyer
56. In My Own Name, Maureen McTeer
57. The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture, Fritjof Capra
58. Finding Carrie George, Frank LaRue
59. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, Seth Godin
60. The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology & the Evolutionary Corporation (Conscientious Commerce), Brian Nattrass
61. The Cult of Efficiency (CBC Massey Lecutres Series), Janice Stein
62. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
63. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
64. Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, Mao Tse-Tung
65. 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Wilfred & Lewis Funk, Norman
66. The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
67. The Poems of John Keats, John Keats
68. Biopolitics, Thomas Landon Thorso
69. Gorgias, Plato
70. Necessity of Social Control, I. Meszaros
71. Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau, Hume Locke, Rousseau
72. Search for a Method, Jean-Paul Sartre
73. Between Past and Future (Penguin Classics), Hannah Arendt
74. The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, Albert Camus
75. An outline of basic political theory, Charles Preston
76. Kant: Great books of the western world; 42. The critique of pure reason; The critique of practical reason and other ethical treatises; The critique of judgement. (Great Books of the Western World, 42), Robert M. Hutchins, Kant
77. Ethics, G.E. Moore

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