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| Jane Jacobs |
Vernon Parrington
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In reaction to the Random House 100 best non-fiction books of the century, National Review, the conservative weekly magazine of political and social commentary, formed a panel who selected their choices for the 100 best. In publishing the list the National Review wrote: "So here is our list, for your enjoyment, mortification and stimulation."
| 1 | Winston S. Churchill | The Second World War |
| 2 | Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn | The Gulag Archipelago |
| 3 | George Orwell | Homage to Catalonia |
| 4 | F. A. von Hayek | The Road to Serfdom |
| 5 | George Orwell | Collected Essays |
| 6 | Karl Popper | The Open Society and Its Enemies |
| 7 | C. S. Lewis | The Abolition of Man |
| 8 | Jose Ortega y Gasset | Revolt of the Masses |
| 9 | F. A. von Hayek | The Constitution of Liberty |
| 10 | Milton Friedman | Capitalism and Freedom |
| 11 | Paul Johnson | Modern Times |
| 12 | Michael Oakeshott | Rationalism in Politics |
| 13 | Joseph A. Schumpeter | Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy |
| 14 | Max Weber | Economy and Society |
| 15 | Hannah Arendt | The Origins of Totalitarianism |
| 16 | Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon |
| 17 | Edward O. Wilson | Sociobiology |
| 18 | Pope Paul John II | Centissimus Annus |
| 19 | Norman Cohn | The Pursuit of the Millenium |
| 20 | Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| 21 | Robert Conquest | The Great Terror |
| 22 | Malcolm Muggeridge | Chronicles of Wasted Time |
| 23 | Albert Einstein | Relativity |
| 24 | Whittaker Chambers | Witness |
| 25 | Thomas S. Kuhn | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| 26 | C. S. Lewis | Mere Christianity |
| 27 | Robert Nisbet | The Quest for Community |
| 28 | Encyclopedia Britannica | Eleventh Edition of the E B |
| 29 | Joseph Mitchell | Up in the Old Hotel |
| 30 | G. K. Chesterton | The Everlasting Man |
| 31 | G. K. Chesterton | Orthodoxy |
| 32 | Lionel Trilling | The Liberal Imagination |
| 33 | James D. Watson | The Double Helix |
| 34 | Richard Phillips Feynman | The Feynman Lectures on Physics |
| 35 | Tom Wolfe | Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers |
| 36 | Albert Camus | The Myth of Sisyphus |
| 37 | Edward C. Banfield | The Unheavenly City |
| 38 | Sigmund Freud | The Interpretation of Dreams |
| 39 | Jane Jacobs | The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
| 40 | Francis Fukuyama | The End Of History and the Last Man |
| 41 | Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker | Joy of Cooking |
| 42 | Richard Hofstadter | The Age of Reform |
| 43 | John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
| 44 | William F. Buckley Jr. | God & Man at Yale |
| 45 | T. S. Eliot | Selected Essays |
| 46 | Richard M. Weaver | Ideas Have Consequences |
| 47 | Jane Jacobs | The Economy of Cities |
| 48 | Allan Bloom | The Closing of the American Mind |
| 49 | Thomas Sowell | Ethnic America |
| 50 | Gunnar Myrdal | An American Dilemma |
| 51 | Sigmund Freud | Three Case Histories |
| 52 | Chester Wilmot | The Struggle for Europe |
| 53 | Vernon Louis Parrington | Main Currents in American Thought |
| 54 | Johann Huzinga | The Waning of the Middle Ages |
| 55 | Wolfhart Pannenberg | Systematic Theology |
| 56 | Sewell Tyng | The Campaign of the Marne |
| 57 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| 58 | Bernard Lonergan | Insight: A Study of Human Understanding |
| 59 | Martin Heidegger | Being and Time |
| 60 | Robert Blake | Disraeli |
| 61 | Irving Babbitt | Democracy and Leadership |
| 62 | William Strunk, E.B. White | The Elements of Style |
| 63 | James Burnham | The Machiavellians |
| 64 | Konstantin P. Pobedonostsev | Reflections of a Russian Statesman |
| 65 | Isaiah Berlin | The Hedgehog and the Fox |
| 66 | Eugene D. Genovese | Roll, Jordan, Roll |
| 67 | Ezra Pound | The ABC of Reading |
| 68 | John Keegan | The Second World War |
| 69 | Milman Parry | The Making of Homeric Verse |
| 70 | Angus Wilson | The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
| 71 | F. R. Leavis | Scrutiny |
| 72 | Charles de Gaulle | The Edge of the Sword |
| 73 | Douglas Southall Freeman | R. E. Lee |
| 74 | Ludwig von Mises | Bureaucracy |
| 75 | Thomas Merton | The Seven Storey Mountain |
| 76 | Stefan Zweig | Balzac |
| 77 | Walter Lippmann | The Good Society |
| 78 | Rachel Carson | Silent Spring |
| 79 | Jaroslav Pelikan | The Christian Tradition |
| 80 | Marc Bloch | Strange Defeat |
| 81 | Norman Douglas | Looking Back |
| 82 | Henry Adams | Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres |
| 83 | Randall Jarrell | Poetry and the Age |
| 84 | Denis de Rougemont | Love in the Western World |
| 85 | Russell Kirk | The Conservative Mind |
| 86 | George Gilder | Wealth and Poverty |
| 87 | James M. McPherson | Battle Cry of Freedom |
| 88 | Leon Edel | Henry James |
| 89 | E. B. White | Essays of E. B. White |
| 90 | Vladimir Nabokov | Speak, Memory |
| 91 | Tom Wolfe | The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test |
| 92 | Michael J. Behe | Darwin's Black Box |
| 93 | Shelby Foote | The Civil War |
| 94 | Jude Wanniski | The Way the World Works |
| 95 | Edmund Wilson | To the Finland Station |
| 96 | Kenneth Clark | Civilization |
| 97 | Richard Pipes | The Russian Revolution |
| 98 | R. G. Collingwood | The Idea of history |
| 99 | William Manchester | The Last Lion |
| 100 | Kenneth W. Starr | The Starr Report |
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