Ok, let’s do this, tweeps. What works of nonfiction have you found “profoundly moving”? And especially, what works of *history* have found profoundly moving?
Ginsburg, The Cheese and the Worms
Scott, Seeing Like a State
Tuchman, The March of Folly
Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Scott, Seeing Like a State
Tuchman, The March of Folly
Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism
Ryszard Kapuściński, Shah of Shahs
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts
Donna Haraway, Primate Visions
Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism
Ryszard Kapuściński, Shah of Shahs
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts
Donna Haraway, Primate Visions
Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Wiesel, Night
Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Marx, The Communist Manfesto
Faust, Republic of Suffering
Laqueur, The Work of the Dead
Wiesel, Night
Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Marx, The Communist Manfesto
Faust, Republic of Suffering
Laqueur, The Work of the Dead
