Here are a couple of gals for the list:
Hannah Arendt, _The Origins of Totalitarianism_.
Simone de Beauvoir, _Le deuxieme sexe_.
Both great books.
>From: JKSCHW at aol.com
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Top 100 nonfiction works
>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:45:57 EST
>
>The books listed below are all English-language works for general readers.
>Is that a limitation? ALthough they are all lefty works.
>
>Otherwise an obvious candidate is:
>
>John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (_the_ preeminant work of political
>philosophy in the 20th century, but not exactly fun for the intellectual
>hoi poloi. It's unashamedly liberal, although right wingers find it
>communistical and Rawls is open to market socialism.)
>
>If we can have foreign language works, also very difficult, but clearly the
>greatest work of Marxist philosophy of the 29th century is:
>
>Georg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness
>
>More in the vein of the books suggested, I'd nominate:
>
>Leon Trotsky, The Russian Revolution (a literary masterwork as well as a
>very solid piece of history).
>
>Not exactly on that level, but at least as good as several of the books
>listed is my favorite book of popular law, and of the best books I have
>ever read on race relations:
>
>Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education
>and Black America's Struggle for Equality
>
>Though while we are thinking of American race relations, maybe we should
>put in:
>
>W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, and
>
>James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.
>
>Our list ought not be all white guys. Speaking of which we, where are the
>girls?
>
>-jks
>
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>
>In a message dated Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:42:34 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>"Peter K." <peterk at enteract.com> writes:
>.
> > Here's a link for their "Top 100 (and a few more) Non-fiction works of
>the
> > 20th Century."
> > http://www.counterpunch.org/top100nf.html
> >
> > I'd be interested to hear comments about the list from the learned (and
> > quirky) amongst you. I'm proud to say I have
> > Edward Abbey's Fool's Progress
> > Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: the degradation of work in
>the
> > Twentieth Century
> > William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
> > Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel and the
> > Palestinians
> > Christopher Hill,The World Turned Upside Down: radical ideas during the
> > English revolution
> > Andrew Kopkind, The Thirty Years' War: dispatches and diversions
> > of a radical journalist 1965-1994
> > Peter Linebaugh,The London Hanged: crime and civil society in the
>Eighteenth
> > Century
> > Edward Said, Orientalism
> > EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
> >
> > and have read a few
> >
> > Peter Kilander - not above a little chest-thumping
>
>
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