Book Reviews
Here’s an entry I thought was interesting at Book Magazine.com
In honor of America’s 227th birthday, we set out to find the twenty novels and nonfiction titles that have had the greatest impact on the history of the country: the ones that led to concrete, definable changes in the way Americans live their lives. We omitted a number of important volumes that existed before the country did; among their number are several seminal religious texts (the Bible, for instance). We also limited our list to books that were released more than twenty-five years ago. It just seems too early to assess the effect of recent efforts—Dinesh D’Souza’s 1991 Illiberal Education, which helped codify the country’s obsession with political correctness, for instance, or Andrew Weil’s 1995 advisory paean to alternative medicine, Spontaneous Healing, or Eric Schlosser’s 2001 McDonald’s-bashing Fast Food Nation. Here, then, in chronological order, are the books that forever changed the nation.
Continue onto the link to read the rest of the article. I was mildly surprised to see one particular book mentioned.
20 Books that Changed America
