Frances
-----Original Message----- From: JKSCHW at aol.com <JKSCHW at aol.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:04 AM Subject: Top 100 nonfiction works
>The books listed below are all English-language works for general readers.
Is that a limitation? ALthough they are all lefty works.
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>Otherwise an obvious candidate is:
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>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.)
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>If we can have foreign language works, also very difficult, but clearly the
greatest work of Marxist philosophy of the 29th century is:
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>Georg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness
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>More in the vein of the books suggested, I'd nominate:
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>Leon Trotsky, The Russian Revolution (a literary masterwork as well as a
very solid piece of history).
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>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:
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>Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education
and Black America's Struggle for Equality
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>Though while we are thinking of American race relations, maybe we should
put in:
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>W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, and
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>James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.
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>Our list ought not be all white guys. Speaking of which we, where are the
girls?
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>-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:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> and have read a few
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>> Peter Kilander - not above a little chest-thumping
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