Lists of Bests: National Review 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/37567 http://www.nationalreview.com/100best/100_books.html Earlier this year, Random House announced that it would release a list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century. The publisher had enjoyed success (and controversy) with its 100 best novels; now it would do this. Here at National Review, we decided to get a jump on them by forming our own panel and offering our own list. Under the leadership of our reporter John J. Miller, we have done so. We have used a methodology that approaches the scientific. But-certainly beyond, say, the first 40 books-the fact of the books' presence on the list is far more important than their rankings. We offer a comment from a panelist after many of the books; but the panel overall, not the individual quoted, is responsible for the ranking. So, here is our list, for your enjoyment, mortification, and stimulation. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:19:45 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Second World War (THE GATHERING STORM,THEIR FINEST HOUR,THE GRAND ALLIANCE, THE HINGE OF FATE, CLOSING THE RING, TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY, 6 VOLUME SET 1948-1953) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2273435 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by winston s 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: A Classic Warning Against The Dangers To Freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/228146 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/228146"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0736651063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056472475_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich A. Hayek</div> The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, 4 volumes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823929 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Open society & its enemies: Vol 2 The High tide of prophecy: Hegel, Marx and the aftermath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487728 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by K 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> Constitution of Liberty (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123174 <div id="position">9</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> 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/2494535 <div id="position">13</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. 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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2045629 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2045629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014310490X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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 Messianism in Medieval and Reformation Europe and its Bearing on Modern Totalitarian Movements http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/467674 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/467674"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007I6TOQ.01-AX4OIACNZHRZR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Cohn</div> The Diary of a Young Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18142 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18142"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671835467.01-A1QG3W3TZ7ACUQ._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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2339326 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2339326"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573833762.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></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/2823935 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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> Quest for Community (Galaxy Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691456 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Nisbet</div> Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823936 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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/2823937 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823937"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01kWykA5umL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. K. Chesterton</div> Orthodoxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785636 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785636"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01TkCcgZt4L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gilbert Keith Chesterton</div> The Liberal Imagination. Essays on Literature and Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823938 <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/2823940 <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/2765602 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765602"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595479368.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24779393_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund, Freud</div> The Death and Life of Great American Cities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8985 <div id="position">39</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> 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> Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/892764 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/892764"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743246268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irma S. Rombauer</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 General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31327 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573921394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Maynard Keynes</div> God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom" http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823942 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William F., Jr. Buckley</div> Selected Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2478948 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2478948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571197469.01._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 by Jane Jacobs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823944 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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 Dilemna: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy 2 volume set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823945 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunnar Myrdal</div>