List: National Review's List of the Top 100 Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century
List Information: National Review put together an alternative
list of the top 100, I'll be reviewing them periodically, without regard
to whether I would recommend them
THE PANEL:
Richard
Brookhiser, NR senior editor
David
Brooks, senior editor of The Weekly Standard
Christopher Caldwell, senior writer at The Weekly Standard
Robert
Conquest, historian
David
Gelernter, writer and computer scientist
George Gilder, writer
Mary Ann Glendon, professor at Harvard Law School
Jeffrey Hart, NR senior editor
Mark
Helprin, novelist
Arthur Herman, author of The Idea of Decline in Western History
John
Keegan, military historian
Michael Kelly, editor of National Journal
Florence King, author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Michael Lind, journalist and novelist
John Lukacs, historian
Adam Meyerson, vice president at the Heritage Foundation
Richard John Neuhaus, editor-in-chief of First Things
John O'Sullivan, NR editor-at-large
Richard Pipes, historian
Abigail Thernstrom, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Stephan Thernstrom, historian
James Q. Wilson, author of The Moral Sense