Molders of the Modern Mind Author:Robert B. Downs Subtitle: "111 Books That Shaped Western Civilization" — From Columbus' letter "Concerning Newly Discovered Islands"(1493), Erasmus' "In Praise of Folly"(1511), More's "Utopia" (1511), & Luther's "...Address..."(1520) to Lenin's "...Revolution...", Keynes' "Economic...", Hitler's "Mein Kampf", Pavlov's "Conditioned Reflexes..." . & Freud's "Civil... more »ization & It's Discontents".
An average of four pages review the 111 works showing their influence on western civilization.
A good way to get an overview of Machiavelli, Copernicus, "Hamlet", "Don Quixote", Newton, Adam Smith, Tom Paine, Malthus, Tocqueville, Emerson, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Darwin, and Einstein, et al.
Robert Downs has written many books like this, but none have as much discussion of books since c.1500 A.D. as this book does.« less