Awards search:National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century

The Road to Serfdom

by Friedrich A. Hayek
Hardcover, 1945
Tags
009, nonfiction, yard sales 9/8/07, short, central planning, bureaucracy, government, politics, economics, economy, classical liberalism — 10 more, Publisher-University of Chicago Press, google partial, hardcover, book, AQR 2007, OWS/Library overlap, needs tags, ≥40 global ratings, Up Next, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HD82.H38 1944

The Origins of Totalitarianism; New Edition with Added Prefaces

by Hannah Arendt
Paperback, 1985
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nonfiction, ind-read-list, imperialism, anti-semitism, Dreyfus Affair, needs tags, Publisher-Harcourt, google partial, Adolf Hitler, anti-clericalism, book — 5 more, AQR 2004, OWS/Library overlap, ≥40 global ratings, woman author, move √
Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1-3)
Status
Available
Call number
JC481.A62 1966

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1980
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biography, nonfiction, Larry, short, authors, Catalonia, soldiers, Spain, Europe, Spanish Civil War, civil wars — 17 more, war, 20th century, 1930s, politics, government, history, communes, google partial, anarchists, anti-fascism, book, Barcelona, OWS/Library overlap, cover-yellow, ≥40 global ratings, move √, Spanish Revolution
Status
Available
Call number
DP269.9.O7 1952

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

by James M. McPherson
Paperback, 1989
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Confederacy, 19th century, slavery, nonfiction, favorite nonfiction, ind-read-list, civil wars, war, history, United States, American Civil War — 15 more, Publisher-Ballantine, google partial, 49ers, 54th Massachusetts, Abraham Lincoln, Alabama, Alexander H. Stephens, Andersonville, book, AQR 2005, S-The Oxford History of the United States, cover-brown, ≥10 global ratings, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Series
The Oxford History of the United States (6)
Status
Available
Call number
E470.M36 1988

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs
Hardcover, 1961
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nonfiction, city planning, government, urban planning, history, cities, urban, Publisher-Modern Library, favorite nonfiction, UP Library, Read in 2013 — 10 more, ≥10 global ratings, ≥40 global ratings, hardcover, dustjacket, first edition, book, google partial, needs tags, move √, walkability
Status
Available
Call number
HT167.J33 1961

To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History

by Edmund Wilson
Paperback, 1953
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nonfiction, history, socialism, communism, Marxism, philosophy, politics, ∫LT-50, look for old edition, HP Library book sale 2011-05-21, google partial — 11 more, 1848 Revolution, Aleksandr Herzen, Alexander II of Russia, book, AQR 2011, OWS/Library overlap, Leon Trotsky, François-Noël Babeuf, needs tags, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HX36.W5 1940

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

by Eugene D. Genovese
Paperback, 1976
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mcr010, nonfiction, ind-read-list, slaves, slavery, United States, history, Publisher-Vintage, early republic, antebellum, needs tags — 10 more, history of the family, google partial, Afro-Christianity, Alabama, American South, book, AQR 2004, cover-red, move √, ≥40 global ratings
Status
Available
Call number
E443.G46 1974

The Economy of Cities

by Jane Jacobs
Hardcover, 1969
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nonfiction, urban planning, planning, cities, economic development, economics, hardcover, dustjacket, book, google no preview, missing where from — 3 more, urban, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HT321.J32 1969

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Hardcover, 1974
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translation, Russian, nonfiction, Larry, concentration camps, violence, prisoners, political prisoners, prison, Soviet Union, politics — 13 more, government, history, 20th century, Publisher-Harper, google partial, hardcover, dustjacket, book, OWS/Library overlap, needs tags, secret police, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Series
The Gulag Archipelago (Volume 1, Parts I-II)
Status
Available
Call number
HV9713.S6413 1974

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Third Edition

by Thomas S. Kuhn
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, science, history, philosophy, intellectual history, Publisher-University of Chicago Press, missing where from, google partial, Albert Einstein, book, OWS/Library overlap — 5 more, philosophy of science, needs tags, ≥40 global ratings, move √, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
Q175.K95 1996
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