List: Brothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: Non-Fiction
Lindbergh (1998) - A. Scott Berg (-) (Grade:A+)The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1951) - Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) (Grade:A+)Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990) - H. G. Bissinger (-) (Grade:A+)The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1990) - Robert H. Bork (-) (Grade:A+)The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) - Herbert Butterfield (10/07/1900-1979) (Grade:A)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) - Robert A. Caro (-) (Grade:A+)Witness (1952) - Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) (Grade:A+)What it Takes : The Way to the White House (1992) - Richard Ben Cramer (-) (Grade:A+)Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) - Joan Didion (1934-) (Grade:A+)Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek (1974) - Annie Dillard (1945-) (Grade:A)
Fools' Names, Fools' Faces (1996) - Andrew Ferguson (1956-) (Grade:A)
The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition (1947) - Anne Frank (1929-1945) (Grade:A)
The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) - Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) (Grade:A+)The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006) (Grade:A-)
Freedom from Fear : The United States, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9) (1999) - David M. Kennedy (-) (Grade:A)
The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot (1953) - Russell Kirk (1918-1994) (Grade:A+)The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (1929) - Joseph Wood Krutch (11/25/1893-05/22/1970) (Grade:A-)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) - Thomas S. Kuhn (1929-1996) (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 (1898-1963) (Grade:A+)The Spirit of St. Louis (1953) - Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) (Grade:A+)The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) - Janet Malcolm (-) (Grade:A+)West With the Night (1941) - Beryl Markham (1902-1986) (Grade:A+)The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) - David McCullough (1933-) (Grade:A+)Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories (1992) - Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996) (Grade:A+)Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited (1966) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:A)
Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey (1981) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:A)
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943) - Albert Jay Nock (1872-1945) (Grade:A+)Parliament of Whores : A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) - P.J. O'Rourke (1947-) (Grade:A)
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962) - Michael Oakeshott (12/11/1901-1992) (Grade:A)
The Revolt of the Masses (1930) - Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) (Grade:A+)A Collection of Essays (1954) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949) (Grade:A+)And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) - Randy Martin Shilts (08/08/1951-02/17/1994) (Grade:A+)The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume I) (1973) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-) (Grade:A+)The Elements of Style (1959) - William Strunk Jr. (1869-1946) (Grade:A+)Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) - Sam Tanenhaus (-) (Grade:A)
Up From Slavery (1901) - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) (Grade:A)
The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (1987) - Richard A. Watson (02/23/1931-) (Grade:A)
The Right Stuff (1979) - Tom Wolfe (1931-) (Grade:A+)The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991) - Gordon S. Wood (1933-) (Grade:A)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (1925-1965) (Grade:A+)