[Billthedrill]

Good heavens - I own all of the top 50. Scary.

I am pleased to see Witness that high in the list. It is one of the most stunning books I've ever read. I am even more pleased to see Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus there but it doesn't really belong - it is very, very difficult and indecipherable in a bad translation. But if all you take away is the first line - "The world consists not of things, but of facts," you will blow away most of the Marxian crap that so infested the 20th century and all of the ridiculous postmodern puppet show that has pretended to replace philosophy with nihilism.

Very, very pleased to see Paul Johnson included. Orwell's Homage to Catalonia was the break of a brilliant mind from obscurantist garbage by way of a real war. Eggs aren't broken to make Lenin's omelet, people are. What else? Wolfe gets a double portion and it's deserved. Keegan is there. Churchill, of course.

A couple of modest suggestions - Human Action by Ludwig von Mises and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. And maybe History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.

I didn't see Naughty Nurses In Bondage but dang it, that's a classic too...

[Mr. Mojo]

I'm about to dig into Johnson's History of the American People. ....which will be the first book of his I've read.

I'll second your Wm. Shirer nomination.

[RightWingAtheist]

I can think of a number of other Von Mises books that could be placed on the list (any one of them could bump the Starr Report off-sheesh!): Theory and History, Socialism, and Theory of Money and Credit. Also, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson is at least as deserving as Wanniski's book. If we're going to add some more Bertrand Russell-how about the Principia Mathematica that he wrote with Alfred Whitehead?

[Blind Eye Jones]

"the ridiculous postmodern puppet show that has pretended to replace philosophy with nihilism."

What! Noam Chomsky -- voted the greatest intellectual on the planet, ever, I mean like you know dude, like ever -- not on the list!!!! Awe man, he's smarter than the Democrat chimp president we voted in. <s/