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
Harvard? Perhaps the Communist Manifesto was on their list.
ReplyDeleteThe book's Index of Works Cited indicates not.
ReplyDeleteHugh Heclo and Duncan Kennedy cited 'Das Kapital', and Orlando Patterson cited 'Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844'.