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List:  Intercollegiate Studies Institute Fifty BEST Books of the Century


The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography (1918) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838 -1918)  (Grade:B+)

The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) - Herbert Butterfield (10/07/1900 -7/20/1979)  (Grade:A)

Witness (1952) - Whittaker Chambers (4/01/1901 -7/09/1961)  (Grade:A+)

The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England (1992) - Eamon Duffy (1947 -)  (Grade:A)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006)  (Grade:A-)

The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot (1953) - Russell Kirk (10/19/1918 -4/29/1994)  (Grade:A+)

The Abolition of Man: Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools (1943) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A+)

Homage to Catalonia (1938) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A)

The Elements of Style (1959) - William Strunk Jr. (1869-1946)  (Grade:A+)

Up From Slavery (1901) - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)  (Grade:A)

The Right Stuff (1979) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (5/19/1925 -2/21/1965)  (Grade:A+)