Lists of Bests: ISI's Fifty Best Books of the [20th] Century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25273 The turn of the century is a time to take stock of the path we have followed, the better to discern where we ought to be going. Historical discernment requires coming to judgment about what has been noble, good, and beneficial in our time—but also about what has been base, bad, and harmful. In the life of the mind, what has our century produced that deserves admiration? What has it produced that deserves only contempt? Prominent on the "Best" list are many volumes of extraordinary reflection and creativity in a traditional form, which heartens us with the knowledge that fine writing and clear-mindedness are perennially possible. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:15:54 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 The Education of Henry Adams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2136682 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2136682"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406802786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42269751_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Adams</div> The Abolition of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1056 <div id="position">2</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> Witness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969018 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Whittaker Chambers</div> T. S. Eliot - Selected Essays 1917-1932 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491137 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> Study of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1787848 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnold Toynbee</div> The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163 <div id="position">6</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> Teacher in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962540 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0819154474.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacques Barzun</div> Samuel Johnson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33833 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33833"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1887178767.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Jackson Bate</div> Understanding Poetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2639972 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. Brooks</div> Whig Interpretation of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66622 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66622"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393003183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herbert Butterfield</div> Orthodoxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2060193 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. K. Chesterton</div> The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11316 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039541685X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston S. Churchill</div> Complete Set: A History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston (A History of Philosophy in 9 Volumes) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2570085 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Copleston</div> Religion and the Rise of the Western Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1873525 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Dawson</div> The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/421565 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/421565"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300108281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eamon Duffy</div> The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/409814 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/409814"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307290468.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shelby Foote</div> R. E. Lee: a Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2344008 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Southall Freeman</div> Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4956 <div id="position">18</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> Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66627 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66627"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394716523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugene D. Genovese</div> Constitution of Liberty (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123174 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123174"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/041540424X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hayek. F. A.</div> Protestant--Catholic--Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66629 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66629"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226327345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Will Herberg</div> The Death and Life of Great American Cities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8985 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8985"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375508732.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Revised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380 <div id="position">23</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> The Face of Battle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473729 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Keegan</div> The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27641 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27641"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0895261715.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Kirk</div> The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (Harvard Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66630 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66630"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674361539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464359_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur O. Lovejoy</div> After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66631 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66631"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0268006113.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alasdair C. MacIntyre</div> Jefferson And His Time, 6 vol. set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2640026 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2640026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000J6DF2A.01-A3DTZ4WZZQL1VP._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dumas Malone</div> H. L. Mencken: Prejudices http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2333248 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James T Farrell</div> The Seven Storey Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337583 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337583"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0281044740.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Merton</div> The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics) 2 Volume Set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64965 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0664257097.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reinhold Niebuhr</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">32</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> The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66634 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117 <div id="position">34</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> Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5960 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312253990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> The Making of the Atomic Bomb http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684813785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rhodes</div> The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (Background: Essential Texts for the Conservative Mind) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977461 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977461"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1932236805.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Rieff</div> Persons and places: Fragments of autobiography (The Works of George Santayana) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292630 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Santayana</div> Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494535 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415107628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph A. 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