4.48 avg rating — 1,810 ratings

"Brookhiser: “The big story of the century, told by its major hero.”"

4.33 avg rating — 34,662 ratings

"Neuhaus: “Marked the absolute final turning point beyond which nobody could deny the evil of the Evil Empire.”"

4.09 avg rating — 71,187 ratings

"Herman: “Orwell’s masterpiece-far superior to Animal Farm and 1984. No education in the meaning of the 20th century is complete without it.”"

4.15 avg rating — 25,962 ratings

"Helprin: “Shatters the myth that the totalitarianisms ‘of the Left’ and ‘of the Right’ stem from differing impulses.”"

4.30 avg rating — 8,086 ratings

"King: “Every conservative’s favorite liberal and every liberal’s favorite conservative. This book has no enemies.”"

4.21 avg rating — 2,628 ratings

"Herman: “The best work on political philosophy in the 20th century. Exposes totalitarianism’s roots in Plato, Hegel, and Marx.”"

4.12 avg rating — 40,728 ratings

"Brookhiser: “How modern philosophies drain meaning and the sacred from our lives.”"

4.03 avg rating — 6,509 ratings

"Gilder: “Prophesied the 20th century’s debauchery of democracy and science, the barbarism of the specialist, and the inevitable fatuity of public opinion. Explained the genius of capitalist elites.”"

4.16 avg rating — 2,890 ratings

"O’Sullivan: “A great re-statement for this century of classical liberalism by its greatest modern exponent.”"

3.90 avg rating — 15,155 ratings

4.29 avg rating — 2,819 ratings

"Herman: “Huge impact outside the academy, dreaded and ignored inside it.”"

3.99 avg rating — 310 ratings

"Herman: “Oakeshott is the 20th century’s Edmund Burke.”"

3.99 avg rating — 2,947 ratings

"Caldwell: “Locus classicus for the observation that democratic capitalism undermines itself through its very success.”"

4.11 avg rating — 1,598 ratings

"Lind: “Weber made permanent contributions to the understanding of society with his discussions of comparative religion, bureaucracy, charisma, and the distinctions among status, class, and party.”"

4.30 avg rating — 14,724 ratings

"Caldwell: “Through Nazism and Stalinism, looks at almost every pernicious trend in the last century’s politics with stunning subtlety.”"

4.21 avg rating — 2,675 ratings

"Kelly: “For its writing, not for its historical accuracy.”"

4.23 avg rating — 1,795 ratings

"Lind: “Darwin put humanity in its proper place in the animal kingdom. Wilson put human society there, too.”"

4.23 avg rating — 207 ratings

4.26 avg rating — 952 ratings

"Neuhaus: “The authoritative refutation of utopianism of the left, right, and points undetermined.”"

4.20 avg rating — 4,185,627 ratings

"Helprin: “An innocent’s account of the greatest evil imaginable. The most powerful book of the century. Others may not agree. No matter, I cast my lot with this child.” Caldwell: “If one didn’t know her fate, one might read it as the reflections of any girl. That one does know her fate makes this as close to a holy book as the century produced.”"

4.14 avg rating — 1,205 ratings

"Herman: “Documented for the first time the real record of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. A genuine monument of historical research and reconstruction, a true epic of evil.”"

4.14 avg rating — 173 ratings

"Gilder: “The best autobiography, Christian confession, and historic meditation of the century.”"

4.20 avg rating — 23,012 ratings

"Lind: “The most important physicist since Newton.”"

4.38 avg rating — 2,308 ratings

"Caldwell: “Confession, history, potboiler-by a man who writes like the literary giant we would know him as, had not Communism got him first.”"

4.03 avg rating — 29,900 ratings

4.37 avg rating — 457,054 ratings

"Neuhaus: “The most influential book of the most influential Christian apologist of the century.”"

4.25 avg rating — 352 ratings

4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings

"Helprin: “The infinite riches of the world, presented with elegance, confidence, and economy.”"

4.33 avg rating — 4,257 ratings

4.16 avg rating — 10,723 ratings

"Lukacs: “A great carillonade of Christian verities.”"

4.19 avg rating — 42,134 ratings

"O’Sullivan: “How to look at the Christian tradition with fresh eyes.”"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 485 ratings

"Hart: “The popular form of liberalism tends to simplify and caricature when it attempts moral aspiration-that is, it tends to ‘Stalinism.’”"

3.84 avg rating — 20,028 ratings

"Herman: “Deeply hated by feminists because Watson dares to suggest that the male-female distinction originated in nature, in the DNA code itself.”"

4.61 avg rating — 8,085 ratings

"Gelernter: “Outside of art (or maybe not), physics is mankind’s most beautiful achievement; these three volumes are probably the most beautiful ever written about physics.”"

3.81 avg rating — 4,055 ratings

"O’Sullivan: “Wolfe is our Juvenal.”"

4.22 avg rating — 65,329 ratings

3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings

"Neuhaus: “The volume that began the debunking of New Deal socialism and its public-policy consequences.”"

3.84 avg rating — 81,090 ratings

4.29 avg rating — 19,904 ratings

3.61 avg rating — 7,856 ratings

4.13 avg rating — 198,406 ratings

3.91 avg rating — 1,966 ratings

"Herman: “The single best book on American history in this century, bar none.”"

3.85 avg rating — 5,767 ratings

"Hart: “Influential in suggesting that the business cycle can be modified by government investment and manipulation of tax rates.”"

3.71 avg rating — 2,065 ratings

"Gilder: “Still correct and prophetic. It defines the conservative revolt against socialism and atheism on campus and in the culture, and reconciles the alleged conflict between capitalist and religious conservatives.”"

4.13 avg rating — 453 ratings

"Hart: “Shaped the literary taste of the mid-century.”"

4.13 avg rating — 1,891 ratings

4.09 avg rating — 1,282 ratings

3.76 avg rating — 5,976 ratings

4.35 avg rating — 1,075 ratings

4.12 avg rating — 125 ratings

3.91 avg rating — 737 ratings

"Gelernter: “Beyond question Freud is history’s most important philosopher of the mind, and he ranks alongside Eliot as the century’s greatest literary critic. Modern intellectual life (left, right, and in-between) would be unthinkable without him.”"

4.38 avg rating — 183 ratings

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

"King: “An immensely readable history of ideas and men. (Skip the fragmentary third volume-he died before finishing it.)”"

4.03 avg rating — 4,334 ratings

"Lukacs: “Probably the finest historian who lived in this century. “"

4.25 avg rating — 81 ratings

"Neuhaus: “The best summary and reflection on Christianity’s encounter with the Enlightenment project.”"

4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings

"Keegan: “A forgotten American’s masterly account of the First World War in the West.”"

4.10 avg rating — 22,369 ratings

"Hart: “A terse summation of the analytic method of the analytic school in philosophy, and a heroic leap beyond it.”"

4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings

"Glendon: “The Thomas Aquinas of the 20th century.”"

4.05 avg rating — 27,803 ratings

"Hart: “A seminal thinker, notwithstanding his disgraceful error of equating National Socialism with the experience of ‘Being.’”"

4.19 avg rating — 227 ratings

"Keegan: “Political biography as it should be written.”"

4.21 avg rating — 52 ratings

"King: “A conservative literary critic describes what happens when humanitarianism over takes humanism.”"

4.18 avg rating — 87,067 ratings

"A. Thernstrom: “If only every writer would remember just one of Strunk & White’s wonderful injunctions: ‘Omit needless words.’ Omit needless words.”"

4.27 avg rating — 2,034 ratings

"O’Sullivan: “Burnham is the greatest political analyst of our century and this is his best book.”"

4.18 avg rating — 49 ratings

"King: “The ‘culture war’ as seen by the tutor to the last two czars. A Russian Pat Buchanan.”"

4.02 avg rating — 2,396 ratings

4.03 avg rating — 2,005 ratings

"Neuhaus: “The best account of American slavery and the moral and cultural forces that undid it.”"

3.90 avg rating — 1,928 ratings

"Brookhiser: “An epitome of the aging aesthetic movement that will be forever known as modernism.”"

4.11 avg rating — 5,062 ratings

"Hart: “A masterly history in a single volume.”"

4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings

"Lind: “Genuine discoveries in literary study are rare. Parry’s discovery of the oral formulaic basis of the Homeric epics, the founding texts of Western literature, was one of them.”"

3.46 avg rating — 24 ratings

"Keegan: “A life of a great author told through the transmutation of his experience into fictional form.”"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings

"Hart: “Enormously important in education, especially in England. Leavis understood what one kind of ‘living English’ is.”"

3.79 avg rating — 99 ratings

"Brookhiser: “A lesser figure than Churchill, but more philosophical (and hence, more problematic).”"

4.27 avg rating — 1,814 ratings

"Conquest: “The finest work on the Civil War.”"

4.24 avg rating — 892 ratings

4.08 avg rating — 20,879 ratings

"Neuhaus: “A classic conversion story of a modern urban sophisticate.”"

4.28 avg rating — 744 ratings

"King: “On the joys of working one’s self to death. The chapter ‘Black Coffee’ is a masterpiece of imaginative reconstruction.”"

3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings

"Gilder: “Written during the Great Depression. A corruscating defense of the morality of capitalism.”"

4.06 avg rating — 54,846 ratings

"Lind: “For all the excesses of the environmental movement, the realization that human technology can permanently damage the earth’s environment marked a great advance in civilization. Carson’s book, more than any other, publicized this message.”"

4.29 avg rating — 1,109 ratings

"Neuhaus: “The century’s most comprehensive account of Christian teaching from the second century on.”"

3.99 avg rating — 1,089 ratings

"Herman: “A great historian’s personal account of the fall of France in 1940.”"

3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings

"Conquest: “Fascinating memoirs of a remarkable writer.”"

3.94 avg rating — 450 ratings

4.26 avg rating — 151 ratings

"Caldwell: “The book for showing how 20th- century poets think, what their poetry does, and why it matters.”"

4.10 avg rating — 557 ratings

"Brookhiser: “What has become of eros over the last seven centuries.”"

4.13 avg rating — 1,741 ratings

4.02 avg rating — 425 ratings

4.40 avg rating — 33,882 ratings

4.27 avg rating — 252 ratings

"King: “All the James you want without having to read him.”"

4.31 avg rating — 4,124 ratings

"Gelernter: “White is the apotheosis of the American liberal now spurned and detested by the Left (and the cultural mainstream). His mesmerized devotion to the objects of his affection-his family, the female sex, his farm, the English language, Manhattan, the sea, America, Maine, and freedom, in descending order-is movingly absolute.”"

4.08 avg rating — 17,714 ratings

3.92 avg rating — 78,991 ratings

3.79 avg rating — 4,053 ratings

"Gilder: “Overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning.”"

4.53 avg rating — 8,085 ratings

4.17 avg rating — 121 ratings

"Gilder: “The best book on economics. Shows fatuity of still-dominant demand-side model, with its silly preoccupation with accounting trivia, like the federal budget and trade balance and savings rates, in an economy with $40 trillion or so in assets that rise and fall weekly by trillions.”"

4.11 avg rating — 1,503 ratings

"Herman: “The best single book on Karl Marx and Marx’s place in modern history.”"

4.25 avg rating — 1,872 ratings

4.08 avg rating — 960 ratings

3.95 avg rating — 712 ratings

4.66 avg rating — 459 ratings

3.12 avg rating — 115 ratings

"Hart: “A study in human depravity.”"