“13 this decade? I’m trying to think of ONE outstanding book written in my lifetime.”
To each his own, but I would put F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom on my list of great books written during my lifetime. George H. Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 is also very good, as is W.W. Rostow’s How It All Began: Origins of the Modern Economy.
You really find none of those books to be outstanding?
They were all written before my lifetime! :D