100 Best Non Fiction list of Counterpunch

Michael Hoover hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us
Mon Jan 24 15:21:07 PST 2000



> Eugene Genovese, "Roll Jordan Roll."
> Roy Medvedev, "Let History Judge."
> Rudolf Bahro, "The Alternative In Eastern Europe. "
> A. Heller et. al. "The Dictatorship Over Needs."
> Victor Serge, "Year One Of The Russian Revolution."
> Harold Isaacs, "The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution. "
> Livio Maitan, "Party, Army and Masses in China."
> Theodor Adorno, "Minima Moralia."
> M. Merlau Ponty, "Adventures of the Dialectic."
> Russell Jacoby, "Dialectic of Defeat,"
> Christopher Lasch, "The Culture of Narcissism, " and , "The Agony of
> W.A. Williams, "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy."
> Harold Cruse, "The Crisis of The Negro Intellectual"
> Jeffrey Alexander, "Theoretical Logic in Sociology."
> Nicos Poulanzas, "State, Power, Socialism."
> Francois Furet, "The Passing Of An Illusion."
> Dwight MacDonald, "Memoirs Of A Revolutionist."
> Peter Dale Scott, "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK."
> Franz Schurmann, "Primacy and World Power, " and I hear his book on
> Gerard Chaliand, "Revolution In The Third World. "
> Jim O' Connor, "The Fiscal Crisis Of The State. "
> Gabriel Kolko, "A Century Of War. "
> Fred Block, "The Origins Of Int'l. Econ. Crisis."
> Manuel Castells, the newish volumes on the Network Society.
> Seyla Ben-Habib, "Critique, Norm and Utopia."
> Sidney Hook, "Towards the Understanding Of Karl Marx. "
> Isaac Deutscher, "Marxism, Wars, and Revolutions." Of course the 3
> Rakesh mentioned Lewis Corey/Louis Fraina. See Paul Buhle's bio, "A
> Kirkpatrick Sale, "S.D.S."
> Fernando Claudin, "The Communist Movement." 2 vols.
> Richard Gombin, "The Radical Tradition."
> J. Habermas, "Legitimation Crisis."
> Joseph Freeman, "An American Testament."
> And finally for comedic purposes, "Iron Curtain Over America, "
> Michael Pugliese

Zowie Batman! looks like list of 100 is gonna be 1000 any day now...

such lists are silly, I mean how could anyone possibly leave _____ (fill in blank) off list, or how about _____ (name favorite obscure book that few others will recognize)...

enough to make me rethink my father's comments about 'book learning'... Michael Hoover



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