Book List
Books to be acquired by participants:For meeting 2:
Menand, Louis; The Metaphysical Club: A story of ideas in America; New York; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 2001, 546 pp., isbn trade paper 0374528497.
For meeting 3:
Lemann, Nicholas; The Big Test: The secret history of the American meritocracy; New
York; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 1999, 406 pp., isbn trade paper 0374527512.
For meeting 4:
Brechin, Gray, Imperial San Francisco: Urban power, earthly ruin, Berkeley, University
of California Press, 1999, 437 pp., isbn trade paper 0520250087.
For meeting 5:
Conant, Jennet, Tuxedo Park, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2002, 352 pp., isbn trade paper 0684872889.
For meeting 7:
Carlin, David, The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, Manchester NH, Sophia Institute Press, 2003, 432 pp., isbn hardcover 1928832792.
For meeting 8:
Pieper, Josef; Leisure the Basis of Culture; trans. from the German by Alexander Dru, with T. S. Eliot intro; Indianapolis; Liberty Fund, 1999 reprint of 1952 ed.; 137 pp, isbn hardcover 0865972109.
For meeting 9:
Buchanan, Scott, The Doctrine of Signatures: A defense of theory in medicine, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1991, 205 pp., isbn trade paper 0252061500.
For meeting 11:
Wolter, Fr. Allan B OFM, and Blane O’Neill, OFM; John Duns Scotus: Mary’s architect; Franciscan Press; Quincy IL; 1993; 90 pp., isbn trade paper 0819909602.