The Last Patrician (34 page)

Literary Criticism

 

Henry James: Literary Criticism,
ed. Leon Edel and Mark Wilson (New York: Library of America, 1984).

The Lonely Crowd

 

David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denny,
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1950).

Lord Jim

 

Joseph Conrad,
Lord Jim: A Tale
(New York: Everyman's Library, 1992; originally published 1900).

Lyndon Johnson

 

Doris Kearns Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
(New York: St. Martin's, 1991).

Machiavellian Moment

 

J. G. A. Pocock,
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974).

Marilyn Monroe

 

Donald Spoto,
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography
(New York: Harper, 1994).

Melbourne

 

David Cecil,
Melbourne
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954; parts 1 and 2 were originally published as
The Young Melbourne
in 1939).

Memoirs

 

Edward Gibbon,
Memoirs of My Life
(New York: Penguin, 1984).

Mornings on Horseback

 

David McCullough,
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary American Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981).

New Dealer in the Cold War

 

Howard B. Schaffer,
Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).

Nixon off the Record

 

Monica Crowley,
Nixon off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics
(New York: Random House, 1996).

Old Money

 

Nelson Aldrich,
Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class
(New York: Allworth Press, 1996).

On Active Service

 

McGeorge Bundy and Henry L. Stimson,
On Active Service in Peace and War
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947).

The Other America

 

Michael Harrington,
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
(New York: Macmillan, 1962).

Palimpsest

 

Gore Vidal,
Palimpsest: A Memoir
(New York: Penguin, 1996).

A Passage to India

 

E. M. Forster,
A Passage to India
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1965; originally published 1924).

Patriotic Gore

 

Edmund Wilson,
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1984; originally published 1924).

Personal Impressions

 

Isaiah Berlin,
Personal Impressions
(New York: Penguin, 1982; originally published 1980).

Philadelphia Gentlemen

 

E. Digby Baltzell,
Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1989; originally published 1958).

Portraits

 

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve,
Portraits of the Seventeenth Century,
2 vols. trans. Katharine P. Wormsley (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1964).

Poverty and Compassion

 

Gertrude Himmelfarb,
Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians
(New York: Vintage, 1992; originally published 1991).

The Power Elite

 

C. Wright Mills,
The Power Elite
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956).

Present at the Creation

 

Dean Acheson,
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
(New York: Norton, 1969).

The Price of the Ticket

 

James Baldwin,
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction 1948–1985
(New York: St. Martin's, 1985).

The Prince

 

Niccolò Machiavelli,
The Prince
(New York: Penguin, 1995).

Promised Land, Crusader State

 

Walter A. McDougall,
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).

The Quiet American

 

Graham Greene,
The Quiet American
(New York: Penguin, 1974; originally published 1955).

Radical Son

 

David Horowitz,
Radical Son: A Journey through Our Times
(New York: Free Press, 1997).

Reagan's America

 

Garry Wills,
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987).

Real Lace

 

Stephen Birmingham,
Real Lace: America's Irish Rich
(New York: Harper & Row, 1973).

The Rector of Justin

 

Louis Auchincloss,
The Rector of Justin
(New York: Signet, 1965; originally published 1964).

Reflections

 

Edmund Burke,
Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris,
ed. J. G. A. Pocock (Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 1987; originally published 1790).

The Right Places

 

Stephen Birmingham,
The Right Places (For the Right People)
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1973; originally published 1968).

Rockefeller

 

Cary Reich,
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908–1958
(New York: Doubleday, 1996).

The Roman Revolution

 

Ronald Syme,
The Roman Revolution
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960; originally published 1939).

Roosevelt and Frankfurter

 

Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence 1928–1945,
annotated by Max Freedman (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967).

The Roosevelts

 

Peter Collier with David Horowitz,
The Roosevelts: An American Saga
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).

The Sacred Wood

 

T. S. Eliot,
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
(London: Methuen, 1920).

Securities Regulation

 

Louis Loss and Joel Seligman,
Securities Regulation,
11 vols., 3d. ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989).

Selected Essays

 

T. S. Eliot,
Selected Essays
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950).

The Shores of Light

 

Edmund Wilson,
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985; originally published 1952).

The Sixties

 

Edmund Wilson,
The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–1972
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993).

The Sixties Reader

 

The Sixties: The Art, Attitudes, Politics, and Media of Our Most Explosive Decade,
ed. Gerald Howard (New York: Marlowe, 1995; originally published 1982).

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

 

Joan Didion,
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
(New York: Penguin, 1974; originally published 1968).

Speeches and Writings

 

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings,
2 vols., ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher (New York: Library of America, 1989).

The Stevensons

 

Jean H. Baker,
The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family
(New York: Norton, 1997; originally published 1996).

Thoreau

 

Henry David Thoreau: A Week; Walden; Maine Woods; Cape Cod,
ed. Robert F. Sayre (New York: Library of America, 1985).

The Triple Thinkers

 

Edmund Wilson,
The Triple Thinkers and the Wound and the Bow
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1984).

Turmoil and Tradition

 

Elting E. Morison,
Turmoil and Tradition: A Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960).

United States

 

Gore Vidal,
United States—Essays: 1952–1992
(New York: Random House, 1993).

Upstate

 

Edmund Wilson,
Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971).

Vanity Fair

 

William Makepeace Thackeray,
Vanity Fair
(London: Heron, 1978; originally published 1847–48).

The Very Best Men

 

Evan Thomas,
The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).

Views from the Circle

 

Trustees of Groton School,
Views from the Circle: Seventy-five Years of Groton School
(privately printed, 1960).

Walter Lippmann

 

Ronald Steel,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1980).

Whittaker Chambers

 

Sam Tanenhaus,
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
(New York: Random House, 1997).

The Wise Men

 

Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas,
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
(New York: Touchstone, 1988; originally published 1986).

Worlds to Conquer

 

Cary Reich,
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller—Worlds to Conquer: 1908–1958
(New York: Doubleday, 1996).

Writings of Chapman

 

The Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman,
ed. Jacques Barzun (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957).

Yeats

 

Richard Ellmann,
Yeats: The Man and the Masks
(New York: Norton, 1978; originally published 1948).

1968

 

Jules Witcover,
The Years the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America
(New York: Warner, 1997).

1968 World Book Year Book

 

The 1968 World Book Year Book: A Review of the Events of 1967
(Chicago: Field Enterprises, 1968).