Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Well-Educated Mind: 142 out of 158. I'm at 90% with 16 to Go!!!!

MEDIEVAL (400 – 1599)
1580 Essays of Montaigne (6/8/10)
EARLY MODERN (1600 – 1850)
1754 History of England, V.5 Hume (8/14/10)
1776 Decline & Fall Roman Empire Gibbon
1792 Vindication Rights Women Wollstonecraft (6/17/10)
1835 Democracy in America Tocqueville
1848 The Communist Manifesto Marx & Engel (6/17/10)
MODERN (1850 – present)
1860 Civilization of Renaissance Burckhardt
1904 Protestant Work Ethic/Spirit of Capitalism Weber
1908 Ecce Homo Nietzsche Autobio (6/14/10)
1925 Mein Kampf Hitler Autobiography (09/3/10)
1929 The Story of My Experiments w/Truth Gandhi (8/27/10)
1937 The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell
1938 The New England Mind Miller
1948 Seven Story Mountain Merton
1955 The Great Crash Galbraith 
1955 Surprised by Joy C.S. Lewis (6/28/10)
1959 The Longest Day Ryan (8/10)
1965 The Autobiography of + Malcolm X
1973 Journal of a Solitude Sarton (6/5/10)
1973 Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn 

1974 Roll, Jordan, Roll Genovese
1978 Distant Mirror Tuchman
1987 All the President's Men Woodward & Bernstein
1990 A Midwife's Tale Ballard
1992 The End of History & the Last Man Fukuyama

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