31 March 2006

A Crunchy Con Library.

The Crunchy Con blog is winding up today, and doing so by posting some recommended reading:
T.S. Eliot, The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Toward a Definition of Culture.
Richard Weaver,
Ideas Have Consequences.
Russell Kirk,
The Conservative Mind (anything by Kirk is essential, but this is the big one).
Matthew Scully,
Dominion.
James Howard Kunstler,
The Geography of Nowhere.
Jane Jacobs,
The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Alasdair Macintyre,
After Virtue.
E.F. Schumacher,
Small Is Beautiful.
Wendell Berry, various essay collections, including
What Are People For? and Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community.
Eric Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation.
Aristotle, Politics
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck,
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
William F. Lynch, Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination
Allen Tate, "What is a Traditional Society?" (essay), found in Essays on Four Decades
 

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