Wednesday, December 08, 2010

The Well-Educated Mind Update 146/158 = 92%

I have 12 more to go!!!! I just finished: 


The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith. Let's not let history repeat itself! It was a fascinating read in every way. I recommend this too: 


The 1930's which is from the PBS Show American Experience.


AUTOBIOGRAPHY (all in the Modern Period)

1948 Seven Story Mountain Merton (Sept. 27, 2010)
1965 The Autobiography of + Malcolm X (November 15, 2010)
1973 Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn (Nov)

HISTORY
EARLY MODERN (1600 – 1850)
1776 Decline & Fall Roman Empire Gibbon (Dec)
1835 Democracy in America Tocqueville (Jan)
MODERN (1850 – present)
1860 Civilization of Renaissance Burckhardt (Feb)
1904 Protestant Work Ethic/Spirit of Capitalism Weber (Mar)
1937 The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell (Apr)
1938 The New England Mind Miller (April/May)
1955 The Great Crash Galbraith (December 8, 2010)
1974 Roll, Jordan, Roll Genovese (June)
1978 Distant Mirror Tuchman (Aug)
1987 All the President's Men Woodward & Bernstein (July)
1990 A Midwife's Tale Ballard (July)
1992 The End of History & the Last Man Fukuyama (Sept)

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