Thank you, Mary Anne, that's the sort of answer I was looking for. I agree with it, now that you've pointed it out to me.
That brings to mind "1984", and "The Surveillance State" or "The National Security State". "Big Brother" has this association with Communism because the Soviet Union provided the 20th's most vivid example of a Surveillance State, so conservatives might see it as simpatico. 'Course, they'd have to ignore the spectacle of today's Ministry of Internal Security....er, excuse me, Department of Homeland Security, busily building the Surveillance State around such entertaining concepts as "Total Information Awareness". Which is the point--"1984" is not a book about the left-right axis, it's perpendicular on the axis of state control of the individual. So I'd nominate "1984" as the book for Left- and Right-Libertarians.
How about "It Can't Happen Here" for the Liberal Bookshelf?
--Robert
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