Exactly No Merci. When you put something on a recommended list you are promoting that thing, and if that thing is a book that promotes a particular ideology, then vicariously, you are promoting that ideology.

If I walked into a bookstore and saw that Sarah Palin and George W. Bush's books were all on recommended reading lists, but books by Clinton and Obama weren't, I would assume that store was promoting the Republican agenda and 9 times out of 10, I would be right.