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Non-Fiction Works First Published in English in the 20th Century |
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Non-Fiction Works First Published in English in the 20th Century |
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN
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CounterPunch is a bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. The editors write: "Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. We aren't side-line journalists here at CounterPunch. Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature". When the editors read through the 100 best lists that appeared in the last few years they were disappointed. "So we've talked to friends, striven to remember what shaped us, what was innovative, path-breaking. Here's our reckoning. This first installment is of non-fiction, first published in English." The 123 selections are presented in the following table in alphabetic order by author.
| Louis Adamic | Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence in America, 1830-1930 |
| Philip Agee | Inside the Company: CIA Diary |
| Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa & Murray Silverstein | A Pattern Language: Towns, Building and Construction |
| Jack Anderson | Confessions of a Muckraker: The Inside story of Life in Washington During the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years |
| Kenneth Anger | Hollywood Babylon |
| Hannah Arendt | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil |
| David Arora | Mushrooms Demystified: A Guide to the Fleshy Fungi |
| Sylvia Ashton-Warner | Spinster |
| James Baldwin | The Devil Finds Work |
| Reyner Banham | Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies |
| Joseph Borkin | The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben |
| Jim Bouten | Ball Four |
| Richard Boyer & Herbert Morais | Labor's Untold Story |
| Marshall Bradley, Fern Bradley & Barbara Ellis | The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening |
| Harry Braverman | Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degredation of Work in the Twentieth Century |
| Kathleen Brenzel | Western Garden Book |
| David Brower | For the Earth's Sake |
| Norman O. Brown | Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History |
| Robert Byron | The Road to Oxiana |
| E.H. Carr | What Is History? |
| Allan Chase | The Legacy of Malthus |
| Samuel B. Charters | The Country Blues |
| Noam Chomsky | The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians |
| Andrew Cockburn | The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine |
| Claud Cockburn | I Claud |
| William Cronon | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West |
| Elizabeth David | French Provincial Cooking |
| Alexandra David-Neel | My Journey to Lhasa |
| Vine DeLoria, Jr. | Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto |
| Angie Debo | Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place |
| John Dower | War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War |
| E.R. Dodds | The Greeks and the Irrational |
| W.E.B. DuBois | The Souls of Black Folk |
| Havelock Ellis | Studies in the Psychology of Sex |
| William Empson | Seven Types of Ambiguity |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | 11th Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica |
| Shulamith Firestone | The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for a Feminist Revolution |
| M.F.K. Fisher | How to Cook a Wolf |
| Henry Watson Fowler | Modern English Usage |
| Roger Fry | Cezanne: A Study of His Development |
| Northrop Frye | An Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays |
| Alex Haley & Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| Myles Horton | The Long Haul: An Autobiography |
| Martha Gellhorn | The Face of War |
| Dan Georgakas | Detroit: I Do Mind Dying |
| Paul Goodman | Growing Up Absurd |
| Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man |
| Robert Graves | Goodbye to All That |
| Alice Hamilton | Exploring the Dangerous Trades |
| E.C.S. Handy & Elizabeth Handy | Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore and Environment |
| Gerald Hanley | Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis |
| Jane E. Harrison | Themis: A Study in the Social Origins of Greek Religion |
| Anthony Heilbut | The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times |
| Seymour Hersh | Kissinger: The Price of Power |
| George Leonard Herter & Berte Herter | Bull Cook: Authentic Recipes and Practices |
| Christopher Hill | The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution |
| William Hinton | Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village |
| Ivan Illich | Deschooling Society |
| Harold A. Innis | The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History |
| C.L.R. James | The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution |
| Gertrude Jekyll | Home and Garden |
| Ernest Jones | The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud |
| Leroi Jones | Blues People: Negro Music in White America |
| Walter Karp | The Politics of War |
| Paline Kael | For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies |
| John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
| Alfred Kinsey, et al. | The Kinsey Report on Human Sexual Behavior |
| Andrew Kopkind | The Thirty Years' War: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994 |
| Frank Kofsky | Harry Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Sucessful Campaign to Deceive the Nation |
| John Fire Lame Deer | Seeker of Visions |
| R.D. Laing | The Divided Self |
| Christopher Lasch | The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations |
| D.H. Lawrence | Etruscan Places |
| Bernard Leach | A Potter's Book |
| Geofrey Lehman | We the Jury: The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms: Great Jury Trials of History |
| Meridel Le Sueur | North Star Country |
| Peter Linebaugh | The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century |
| Albert Bates Lord | The Singer of Tales |
| Norman MacLean | A River Runs Through It |
| Fitzroy McLean | Eastern Approaches |
| Scott McCloud | Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art |
| Alfred McCoy | The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade |
| Carey McWilliams | Factories in the Fields: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California |
| Norman Mailer | Advertisements for Myself |
| Dave Marsh | Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made |
| Leo Marx | The Machine in the Garden |
| Peter Matthiessen | In the Spirit of Crazy Horse |
| H.L. Mencken | Prejudices: A Selection |
| Henry Miller | The Air-Conditioned Nightmare |
| C. Wright Mills | Listen Yanqui |
| Edwin Morse | Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings |
| Robert Motherwell | Dada Documents and Manifestoes |
| Lewis Mumford | Technics and Civilization |
| Paul Oliver | Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues |
| Oxford English Dictionary | Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| Robert Palmer | Deep Blues |
| Roger Tory Peterson | A Field Guide to Birds |
| Kim Philby | My Silent War |
| Karl Polanyi | The Great Transformation |
| Ezra Pound | ABC of Reading |
| Charles Ramsey & Harold Sleeper | Architectural Graphic Standards |
| Bertrand Russell | Autobiography |
| Edward Said | Orientalism |
| G.E.M. de Ste. Croix | The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World |
| Ken Saro-Wiwa | A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary |
| Nancy Scheper-Hughes | Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil |
| Lincoln Steffens | Shame of the Cities |
| Thomas Szasz | The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct |
| Ida Tarbell | The History of Standard Oil |
| Keith Thomas | Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England |
| Bertha Thompson | Sister of the Road: An Autobiography of Box Car Bertha |
| E.P. Thompson | The Making of the English Working Class |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| David Thomson | A Biographical Dictionary of Film |
| Robert Tench | Across the Forbidden Sands |
| Douglas Valentine | The Phoenix Program |
| Gordon Wasson | Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality |
| Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman, Jr. | The Decoration of Houses |
| Terry Tempest Williams | Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place |
| Edmund Wilson | To the Finland Station |
| Geoffrey Wolfe | Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby |
| Donald Worster | Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West |
| Frances Yates | The Art of Memory |
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