Chris Doss wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >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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