National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century

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"Earlier this year (1999), 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 mostra'n més 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."

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ObraEtiqueta d'ordenació
The Second World War {complete} (1950) de Winston S. Churchill
1
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1973) de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2
Homenatge a Catalunya (1938) de George Orwell
3
Cami de servitud (1944) de F. A. Hayek
4
Essays (2000) de George Orwell
5
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1962) de Karl Popper
6
The Abolition of Man (1944) de C. S. Lewis
7
The Revolt of the Masses (1930) de José Ortega y Gasset
8
The Constitution of Liberty (1960) de F. A. Hayek
9
Capitalism and Freedom (1962) de Milton Friedman
10
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (2001) de Paul Johnson
11
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1981) de Michael Oakeshott
12
Capitalisme, socialisme i democràcia (1942) de Joseph A. Schumpeter
13
Economy and Society [complete] (1922) de Max Weber
14
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) de Hannah Arendt
15
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) de Rebecca West
16
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1881) de Edward O. Wilson
17
"Centesimus annus": carta encíclica en el centenari de la "Rerum Novarum" (1991) de John Paul II
18
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957) de Norman Cohn
19
Diari (1947) de Anne Frank
20
The Great Terror : A Reassessment (1968) de Robert Conquest
21
Chronicles of Wasted Time (1989) de Malcolm Muggeridge
22
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) de Albert Einstein
23
Witness (1952) de Whittaker Chambers
24
L'Estructura de les revolucions científiques (1962) de Thomas S. Kuhn
25
Mere Christianity (1952) de C. S. Lewis
26
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953) de Robert Nisbet
27
The Encyclopedia Britannica 11th Edition (1910) de Encyclopedia Britannica
28
Up in the Old Hotel (1943) de Joseph Mitchell
29
The Everlasting Man (1925) de G.K. Chesterton
30
Orthodoxy (1908) de G.K. Chesterton
31
The Liberal Imagination (1950) de Lionel Trilling
32
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) de James D. Watson
33
The Feynman lectures on physics [3-volume set] (1963) de Richard Feynman
34
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970) de Tom Wolfe
35
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1942) de Albert Camus
36
The unheavenly city; the nature and future of our urban crisis (1970) de Edward C. Banfield
37
La interpretació dels somnis (1) (1900) de Sigmund Freud
38
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) de Jane Jacobs
39
The End of History and the Last Man (1992) de Francis Fukuyama
40
Joy of Cooking [1975] (1931) de Irma S. Rombauer
41
The Age of Reform (1955) de Richard Hofstadter
42
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) de John Maynard Keynes
43
God and Man at Yale (1951) de William F. Buckley, Jr.
44
Selected Essays (1932) de T. S. Eliot
45
Ideas Have Consequences (1948) de Richard M. Weaver
46
La economía de las ciudades (1969) de Jane Jacobs
47
The Closing of the American Mind (1987) de Allan Bloom
48
Ethnic America: A History (1981) de Thomas Sowell
49
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) de Gunnar Myrdal
50
Three Case Histories (1963) de Sigmund Freud
51
The Struggle for Europe (1952) de Chester Wilmot
52
Main currents in American thought : an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920 (1927) de Vernon Louis Parrington
53
The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) de Johan Huizinga
54
Systematic theology (1998) de Wolfhart Pannenberg
55
The Campaign of the Marne (1935) de Sewell Tyng
56
Tractatus logico-philosophicus (1921) de Ludwig Wittgenstein
57
Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1958) de Bernard J. F. Lonergan
58
Being and Time (1927) de Martin Heidegger
59
Disraeli (1966) de Robert Blake
60
Democracy and Leadership (1924) de Irving Babbitt
61
The Elements of Style (1959) de William Jr. Strunk
62
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (1943) de James Burnham
63
Reflections of a Russian Statesman (1964) de Konstantin P. Pobedonostsev
64
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1953) de Isaiah Berlin
65
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974) de Eugene D. Genovese
66
ABC of Reading (1934) de Ezra Pound
67
The Second World War (1989) de John Keegan
68
The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry (1971) de Milman Parry
69
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works (1977) de Angus Wilson
70
Scrutiny : A Retrospect de F. R. Leavis
71
The Edge of the Sword (1944) de Charles de Gaulle
72
R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934) de Douglas Southall Freeman
73
Bureaucracy (1944) de Ludwig Von Mises
74
La muntanya dels set cercles (1948) de Thomas Merton
75
Balzac: A Biography (1946) de Stefan Zweig
76
The Good Society (1937) de Walter Lippmann
77
Silent Spring (1962) de Rachel Carson
78
The Christian tradition; a history of the development of doctrine (1971) de Jaroslav Pelikan
79
Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 (1946) de Marc Bloch
80
Looking Back - An Autobiographical Excursion (1933) de Norman Douglas
81
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) de Henry Adams
82
Poetry and the Age (1953) de Randall Jarrell
83
Love in the Western World (1940) de Denis de Rougemont
84
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953) de Russell Kirk
85
Wealth and Poverty (1981) de George F. Gilder
86
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988) de James M. McPherson
87
Henry James: A Life (1985) de Leon Edel
88
Essays of E.B. White (1977) de E. B. White
89
Parla, memòria (1947) de Vladimir Nabokov
90
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) de Tom Wolfe
91
Darwin's Black Box (1996) de Michael J. Behe
92
The Civil War: A Narrative (1958) de Shelby Foote
93
The Way the World Works, 20th Anniversary Edition (Gateway Contemporary) (1978) de Jude Wanniski
94
To the Finland Station (1940) de Edmund Wilson
95
Civilisation: A Personal View (1969) de Kenneth Clark
96
The Russian Revolution (1990) de Richard Pipes
97
The Idea of History (1946) de R. G. Collingwood
98
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (2012) de William Manchester
99
The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair (1998) de Kenneth Starr
100
El diari d'una noia (1947) de Anne Frank
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II) (1973) de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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