Lists of Bests: National Review's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/10362 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:16:12 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 THE SECOND WORLD WAR http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766942 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston Churchill</div> The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060007761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn</div> Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156421178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4967 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4967"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226320618.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. A. Hayek</div> The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (4 volumes) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1700433 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus</div> The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89348 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89348"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415278422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl R. Popper</div> The Abolition of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1056 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1056"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060652942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> The Revolt of the Masses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479856 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393310957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Ortega y Gasset</div> The Constitution of Liberty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4969 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226320847.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426301_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. A. Hayek</div> Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4956 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4956"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226264211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milton Friedman</div> Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Revised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935502.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul M. Johnson</div> Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1256627 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1256627"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0865970955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Oakeshott</div> Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66636 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66636"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0061330086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128585542_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph A. Schumpeter</div> Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430849 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430849"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520035003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Max Weber</div> The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805242252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64978 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140188479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59143551_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rebecca West</div> Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18270 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18270"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674002350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum: Centissimus Annus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1852158 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pope John Paul II</div> The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Galaxy Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/467673 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/467673"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195004566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423473_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Cohn</div> Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85717 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85717"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385473788.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> The Great Terror: A Reassessment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4390 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4390"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195071328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Conquest</div> Chronicles of Wasted Time: An Autobiography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66885 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Muggeridge</div> Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> Witness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66623 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66623"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0895267896.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Whittaker Chambers</div> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4985 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4985"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226458083.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas S. Kuhn</div> Mere Christianity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19304 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19304"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684823780.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (ICS Series in Self-Governance) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66633 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66633"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1558150587.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Nisbet</div> Encyclopedia Britannica: With 2004 Book of the Year (Britannica Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1852173 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1852173"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0852299613.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Up in the Old Hotel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76693 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679746315.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Mitchell</div> The Everlasting Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27749 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27749"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0898704448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. K. Chesterton</div> Orthodoxy (Hendrickson Christian Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217675 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217675"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1598560573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1137175173_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. K. Chesterton</div> Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society. Reprint of the 1950 Ed (Trilling, Lionel, Works.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64987 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lionel Trilling</div> The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074321630X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James D. Watson</div> The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/145687 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/145687"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805390456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard P. Feynman</div> Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100904 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100904"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056455576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18762 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The unheavenly city; the nature and future of our urban crisis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1390520 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward C. Banfield</div> The Interpretation Of Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1566195764.01-AHYFIEJ2WTD9G._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45451576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68278 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600477.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553653_.jpg" /></a></div> The End of History and the Last Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/801871 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/801871"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743284550.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francis Fukuyama</div> The All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19291 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19291"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684818701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62065464_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marion Rombauer Becker</div> The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963020 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963020"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1597400580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Hofstadter</div> The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980798 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980798"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521220998.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Maynard Keynes</div> God and Man at Yale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93978 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93978"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/089526692X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057196361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William F. Buckley</div> Selected Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64960 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151803870.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> Ideas Have Consequences http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87849 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87849"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226876802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426499_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard M. Weaver</div> The Economy of Cities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11159 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11159"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039470584X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> The Closing of the American Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17935 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17935"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671657151.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan Bloom</div> Ethnic America: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80991 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80991"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465020755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056445252_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Sowell</div> An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Black and African-American Studies) Volume 2 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691405 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691405"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560008571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunnar Myrdal</div>