What Book had the biggest influence on you?

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23. Whatever book I happen to be reading at the moment.

I can't say that any one book has influenced the way I live my life--I'd say common sense and humanity take care of that automatically.

However, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle had quite an impact on me when I read it and probably played a role in my almost life-long vegetarianism. I read Native Son by Richard Wright in my early 20's and that really opened my eyes to racial social injustices. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins opened my eyes to quite a few things that took the polish off America's halo for me and when I was quite young I really liked Abe Lincoln's biography and I also really appreciated Susan B. Anthony's biography because it showed how hard women had to work to get the vote and how most men (at the time) thought it better a black man vote than a woman of any color because of his dangly bits making him exceptionally smarter than women without our dangly bits.