Eclectic Good Nonfiction Reads
Discover eclectic nonfiction gems in this curated reading list, featuring Thomas Sowell, Paul Theroux, John McPhee, and A Walk Across America—perfect for curious, adventurous minds.
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The Vision of the Anointed
by Thomas Sowell
Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.
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The Old Patagonian Express
by Paul Theroux
An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia.
