David Brown
Producer David Brown’s most recent credits include the films Chocolat and Along Came a Spider, and the upcoming Broadway shows Sweet Smell of Success and Mr. Goldwyn. Here he chooses six favorite books.
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Touchstone Books, $16). The extraordinary story of John Fores Nash Jr., whose beautiful mind survives schizophrenia and achieves greatness through a forest of demons, eventually sharing the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994.
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick Buchanan (Dunne Books, $26). The nation’s preeminent doomsayer writes the obituary for America and its traditional values, citing low population growth, flooding immigration, the proliferation of anti-Western culture, and the rise of global leadership.
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg (Regnery Pub., $28). An extraordinary attack on TV news coverage, especially CBS. Goldberg, a veteran reporter, alleges that the leftist slant of the media is fatal to objective journalism, naming specific names as he makes his case. His bias is evident.
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Atlantic Monthly Press, $24). Enger writes a heroic and haunting story of the possibility of magic in the everyday world. Frank McCourt describes it as “written in prose tart and crisp as a Minnesota autumn.”
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner (Penguin USA, $14). A remarkable and intensely moving novel about a friendship between two couples. A story that deals with most of the concerns that men and women face.
The Holy Bible (Crossway Books, $25). The Old and New Testament are an unending fountain of wisdom and truth. I refresh my mind and spirit at this fountain whenever the world is too much for me. Recommended for all ages.
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