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The All-TIME 100 Best Non-Fiction Books

That’s “TIME” as in TIME Magazine. And “All-TIME” as in “written in English since TIME started publishing in 1923” (so no surprise appearances from Lucretius, Judah Halevi, Margaret Fuller or J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur). TIME magazine published their list yesterday. While obviously of limited real significance and predictably full of questionable inclusions and exclusions, this is obvious U.S. Intellectual History fodder, as a starting point both for endless arguments about what should and shouldn’t be on the list and for discussions of what this all says about American thought and culture in 2011. Have at it! (Complete list Read more