National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century

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"Earlier this year (1999), Random House announced that it would release a list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century. The publisher had enjoyed success (and controversy) with its 100 best toon meer novels; now it would do this. Here at National Review, we decided to get a jump on them by forming our own panel and offering our own list. Under the leadership of our reporter John J. Miller, we have done so. We have used a methodology that approaches the scientific. But-certainly beyond, say, the first 40 books-the fact of the books' presence on the list is far more important than their rankings. We offer a comment from a panelist after many of the books; but the panel overall, not the individual quoted, is responsible for the ranking. So, here is our list, for your enjoyment, mortification, and stimulation."

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De Tweede Wereldoorlog (1950) door Winston S. Churchill
1
De Goelag Archipel (1973) door Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2
Saluut aan Catalonië (1938) door George Orwell
3
De weg naar moderne slavernij waarheen leidt de huidige economische crisis ? (1944) door F. A. Hayek
4
Essays (2000) door George Orwell
5
The open society and its enemies (1962) door Karl Popper
6
De afschaffing van de mens, gevolgd door De descriptione temporum (1944) door C. S. Lewis
7
De opstand van de massamens (1930) door José Ortega y Gasset
8
The Constitution of Liberty (1960) door F. A. Hayek
9
Capitalism and Freedom (1962) door Milton Friedman
10
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (2001) door Paul Johnson
11
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1981) door Michael Oakeshott
12
Kapitalisme, socialisme en democratie (1942) door Joseph A. Schumpeter
13
Economy and Society [complete] (1922) door Max Weber
14
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) door Hannah Arendt
15
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) door Rebecca West
16
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1881) door Edward O. Wilson
17
Centesimus Annus: On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (1991) door John Paul II
18
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957) door Norman Cohn
19
Het Achterhuis (1947) door Anne Frank
20
The Great Terror : A Reassessment (1968) door Robert Conquest
21
Chronicles of Wasted Time (1989) door Malcolm Muggeridge
22
Einstein mijn theorie : over de speciale en de algemene relativiteitstheorie (1916) door Albert Einstein
23
Witness (1952) door Whittaker Chambers
24
De structuur van wetenschappelijke revoluties (1962) door Thomas S. Kuhn
25
Onversneden Christendom (1952) door C. S. Lewis
26
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953) door Robert Nisbet
27
The Encyclopedia Britannica 11th Edition (1910) door Encyclopedia Britannica
28
Up in the Old Hotel (1943) door Joseph Mitchell
29
De eeuwige mens (1925) door G.K. Chesterton
30
Orthodoxie (1908) door G.K. Chesterton
31
The Liberal Imagination (1950) door Lionel Trilling
32
De dubbele helix hoe ik de sleutel tot de erfelijkheid ontdekte en daarmee de Nobelprijs won (1969) door James D. Watson
33
The Feynman lectures on physics [3-volume set] (1963) door Richard Feynman
34
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970) door Tom Wolfe
35
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1942) door Albert Camus
36
The unheavenly city; the nature and future of our urban crisis (1970) door Edward C. Banfield
37
De droomduiding (1900) door Sigmund Freud
38
Dood en leven van grote Amerikaanse steden (1961) door Jane Jacobs
39
Het einde van de geschiedenis en de laatste mens (1992) door Francis Fukuyama
40
Joy of Cooking [1975] (1931) door Irma S. Rombauer
41
The Age of Reform (1955) door Richard Hofstadter
42
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) door John Maynard Keynes
43
God and Man at Yale (1951) door William F. Buckley, Jr.
44
Selected Essays (1932) door T. S. Eliot
45
Ideas Have Consequences (1948) door Richard M. Weaver
46
The Economy of Cities (1969) door Jane Jacobs
47
De gedachteloze generatie (1987) door Allan Bloom
48
Ethnic America: A History (1981) door Thomas Sowell
49
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) door Gunnar Myrdal
50
Three Case Histories (1963) door Sigmund Freud
51
De strijd om Europa (1952) door Chester Wilmot
52
Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920 (1927) door Vernon Louis Parrington
53
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (1919) door Johan Huizinga
54
Systematic theology (1998) door Wolfhart Pannenberg
55
The Campaign of the Marne (1935) door Sewell Tyng
56
Tractatus logico-philosophicus (1921) door Ludwig Wittgenstein
57
Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1958) door Bernard J. F. Lonergan
58
Zijn en tijd (1927) door Martin Heidegger
59
Disraeli (1966) door Robert Blake
60
Democracy and Leadership (1924) door Irving Babbitt
61
The Elements of Style (1959) door William Jr. Strunk
62
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (1943) door James Burnham
63
Reflections of a Russian Statesman (1964) door Konstantin P. Pobedonostsev
64
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1953) door Isaiah Berlin
65
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974) door Eugene D. Genovese
66
ABC of Reading (1934) door Ezra Pound
67
The Second World War (1989) door John Keegan
68
The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry (1971) door Milman Parry
69
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works (1977) door Angus Wilson
70
Scrutiny : A Retrospect door F. R. Leavis
71
The Edge of the Sword (1944) door Charles de Gaulle
72
R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934) door Douglas Southall Freeman
73
Bureaucracy (1944) door Ludwig Von Mises
74
Louteringsberg (1948) door Thomas Merton
75
Balzac - De roman van zijn leven (1946) door Stefan Zweig
76
The Good Society (1937) door Walter Lippmann
77
Silent Spring (1962) door Rachel Carson
78
The Christian tradition; a history of the development of doctrine (1971) door Jaroslav Pelikan
79
Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 (1946) door Marc Bloch
80
Terugblik : een autobiografie in visitekaartjes (1933) door Norman Douglas
81
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) door Henry Adams
82
Poetry and the Age (1953) door Randall Jarrell
83
Liefde en avondland (1940) door Denis de Rougemont
84
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953) door Russell Kirk
85
Wealth and Poverty (1981) door George F. Gilder
86
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988) door James M. McPherson
87
Henry James: A Life (1985) door Leon Edel
88
Essays of E.B. White (1977) door E. B. White
89
Geheugen, spreek een autobiografie herzien (1947) door Vladimir Nabokov
90
De trip - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) door Tom Wolfe
91
Intelligent Design - De zwarte doos van Darwin (1996) door Michael J. Behe
92
The Civil War: A Narrative (1958) door Shelby Foote
93
The Way the World Works, 20th Anniversary Edition (Gateway Contemporary) (1978) door Jude Wanniski
94
Reis naar de revolutie (1940) door Edmund Wilson
95
Civilisatie (1969) door Kenneth Clark
96
The Russian Revolution (1990) door Richard Pipes
97
The Idea of History (1946) door R. G. Collingwood
98
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (2012) door William Manchester
99
The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair (1998) door Kenneth Starr
100
Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (1947) door Anne Frank
De Goelag archipel, 1918-1956, Boek 1: I-II (1973) door Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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