Sunday, July 26, 2009

Reading Rat Fourth Sunday

Updates to posts on my recommended reading...


Art and Literature

The Economist on Alice Munro

Pat Rogers on Samuel Johnson

Jessica Ferri on Flannery O'Connor


Society and History

Andrew Norton on On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

The Economist on Abraham Lincoln


On the recommended reading list itself, I've continued adding comments from The Harvard guide to influential books: 113 distinguished Harvard professors discuss the books that have helped to shape their thinking (1986), edited by C. Maury Devine, Kim D. Parrish, and Claudia Dissell

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:46 PM

    Harvard? Perhaps the Communist Manifesto was on their list.

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  2. The book's Index of Works Cited indicates not.

    Hugh Heclo and Duncan Kennedy cited 'Das Kapital', and Orlando Patterson cited 'Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844'.

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