The Last Patrician (33 page)

American Establishment

 

Leonard Silk and Mark Silk,
The American Establishment
(New York: Basic Books, 1980).

The American Establishment and Other Reports

 

Richard Rovere,
The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1962).

American Nervousness

 

Tom Lutz,
American Nervousness 1903: An Anecdotal History
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991).

American Renaissance

 

F. O. Matthiessen,
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968; originally published 1941).

An Artist's Story

 

George Biddle,
An Artist's Story
(New York: Harold Ober Associates, 1939)

Anti-Intellectualism

 

Richard Hofstadter,
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
(New York: Knopf, 1963).

The Antitrust Paradox

 

Robert H. Bork,
The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself
(New York: Basic Books, 1978).

APT

 

Richard Hofstadter,
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
(New York: Vintage, 1974; originally published 1948).

Aspects of Aristocracy

 

David Cannadine,
Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994).

Axël's Castle

 

Edmund Wilson,
Axël's Castle: Studies in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930
(New York: Norton, 1985; originally published 1931).

Boston Irish

 

Thomas H. O'Connor,
The Boston Irish: A Political History
(Boston: Back Bay Books, 1995).

Brideshead Revisted

 

Evelyn Waugh,
Brideshead Revisted
(New York: Everyman's Library, 1993; originally published 1944).

A Bright Shining Lie

 

Neil Sheehan,
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
(New York: Vintage, 1989; originally published 1988).

Centenary Remembrance

 

Joseph Alsop,
FDR: 1882–1945: A Centenary Remembrance
(New York: Viking, 1982).

Churchill

 

Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: Henry Holt, 1991).

The City in History

 

Lewis Mumford,
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1961).

Clark's
Leonardo

 

Kenneth Clark,
Leonardo Da Vinci
(New York: Viking, 1988; originally published 1939).

Collected Poems

 

T.S. Eliot,
Collected Poems: 1909–1962
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1963).

The Confidence-Man

 

Herman Melville,
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
(New York: Penguin, 1990; originally published 1857).

Controversy

 

William Manchester,
Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1976).

Creation of the Republic

 

Gordon S. Wood,
The Creation of the American Republic: 1776–1787
(New York: Norton, 1972; originally published 1969).

Culture of Disbelief

 

Stephen L. Carter,
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion
(New York: Anchor, 1994; originally published 1993).

Culture of Narcissism

 

Christopher Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
(New York: Norton, 1978).

Decline and Fall

 

Edward Gibbon,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
7 vols., ed. J. B. Bury (London: Methuen, 1909–14; originally published 1776–88).

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

 

Henry Adams,
The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma,
ed. Brooks Adams (New York: Macmillan, 1919).

Democracy's Discontent

 

Michael J. Sandel,
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).

Discourses

 

Niccolò Machiavelli,
The Discourses on the First Decade of Livy
(New York: Penguin, 1983).

Disraeli

 

Robert Blake,
Disraeli
(London: Methuen, 1969; originally published 1966).

Edie

 

Jean Stein,
Edie: An American Biography,
ed. George Plimpton (New York: Knopf, 1982).

Education

 

Henry Adams: Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education,
ed. Ernest Samuels and Jaune N. Samuels (New York: Library of America, 1983).

Eichmann in Jerusalem

 

Hannah Arendt,
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
(New York: Penguin, 1994; originally published 1963).

Eliot's New Life

 

Lydall Gordon,
Eliot's New Life
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988).

Emerson

 

John Richardson,
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

End of Reform

 

Alan Brinkley,
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
(New York: Vintage, 1996; originally published 1995).

Essays and Lectures

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures,
ed. Joel Porte (New York: Library of America, 1983).

The Essential Holmes

 

The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
ed. Richard A. Posner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).

The Fatal Conceit

 

F. A. von Hayek,
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism,
ed. W. W. Bartley III (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).

FDR

 

Ted Morgan,
FDR: A Biography
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985).

The Fifties

 

David Halberstam,
The Fifties
(New York: Villard, 1993).

Fire in the Lake

 

Frances Fitzgerald,
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
(New York: Vintage, 1973).

FND

 

Edmund Wilson,
The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986).

Frankfurter Reminisces

 

Harlan B. Phillips,
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces
(New York: Reynal, 1960).

The Good Society

 

Walter Lippman,
The Good Society
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1937).

The Great Gatsby

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962; originally published 1925).

The Greek Way

 

Edith Hamilton,
The Greek Way
(New York: Norton, 1993; originally published 1930).

Growing Up Absurd

 

Paul Goodman,
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System
(New York: Random House, 1960).

Hereditary Patriotic Societies

 

Wallace E. Davies,
A History of American Veterans' and Hereditary Patriotic Societies, 1783–1900
(unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard university, 1944).

Herndon's
Lincoln

 

William H. Herndon,
Life of Lincoln
(New York: Da Capo, 1983).

History of the United States

 

Henry Adams,
History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
(New York: Library of America, 1986; originally published 1889–91).

The House of Morgan

 

Ron Chernow,
The House of Morgan: An American Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990).

Human

 

Friedrich Nietzsche,
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits,
trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; originally published 1878).

Ideological Origins

 

Bernard Bailyn,
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967).

Individualism

 

David Riesman,
Individualism Reconsidered and Other Essays
(Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1954).

In the Time of the Americans

 

David Fromkin,
In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur—The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World
(New York: Vintage, 1996; originally published 1995).

Joe Alsop's Cold War

 

Edwin M. Yoder, Jr.,
Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue
(Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

Journals

 

Emerson in His Journals,
ed. Joel Porte (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).

Keats

 

Selected Letters and Poems of John Keats,
ed. J. H. Walsh (London: Chatto and Windus, 1954).

Lawyer's Lawyer

 

William H. Harbaugh,
Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990; originally published 1973).

Lead Time

 

Garry Wills,
Lead Time: A Journalist's Education
(New York: Penguin, 1984; originally published 1983).

Learned Hand

 

Gerald Gunther,
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995; originally published 1994).

Letters of Machiavelli

 

The Letters of Machiavelli: A Selection,
(ed. and trans. Allan Gilbert (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961).

The Liberal Imagination

 

Lionell Trilling,
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950).

The Liberal Persuasion

 

The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past,
ed. John Patrick Diggins (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Liberal Tradition

 

Louis Hartz,
The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1955).