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Books

Philosophy after Christ: Thinking God’s Thoughts after Him

Christ, Capital & Liberty: A Polemic

Herbert Aptheker: Studies in Willful Blindness

Atheism Analyzed: The Implosion of George Smith’s “Case against God”

Six Popes: A Son of the Church Remembers, by Monsignor Hilary C. Franco with Anthony Flood (ghostwriter)

Notes on Epistemology, by John Toohey, SJ; edited by Anthony Flood

My Library for Sale

For the background on this, see: “My book problem (no, not tsundoku) and a possible solution.” If an item catches your eye, Contact Me for information about edition, condition, and terms. I’ve sorted the items into these categories: Archaeology, Art, Economics, History, Philosophy, Politics, Theater, Theology.  From time to time I’ll extend, annotate, and otherwise organize this list.—Anthony G. Flood

Archaeology

    • Deetz, James. Invitation to Archaeology

Art

    • Hare, Richard. The Art and Artists of Russia

Economics

    • Kirzner, Israel M. The Economic Point of View
    • North, Gary. The Coase Theorem
    • The Economics of Liberty, ed. Llewellyn H. Rockwell
    • von Mises, Ludwig. The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
    • von Mises, Ludwig. A Critique of Interventionism
  • History
    • Barnes, Harry Elmer. An Intellectual and Cultural History of the Western World.
    • Beard, Charles A. and Mary R. Beard. A Basic History of the United States
    • Bernal, J. D. Science in History
    • Billington, James H. The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture
    • Boswell, James. Life of Johnson
    • Boucher, Arlene and John Tehan. Prince of Democracy: James Cardinal Gibbons
    • Bowers, Claude G. Jefferson and Hamilton
    • Brinton, Crane, John B. Christopher and Robert Lee Wolff. A History of Civilization. One: Prehistory to 1715
    • Brinton, Crane, John B. Christopher and Robert Lee Wolff. A History of Civilization. Two: 1715 to the Present
    • Butterfield, Herbert. The Origins of History
    • Capitalism and the Historians, ed. F. A. Hayek
    • Childe, V. Gordon. Man Makes Himself
    • Clark, Kenneth. Civilisation
    • Coit, Margaret. Mr. Baruch
    • Dawson, Christopher. Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
    • Dawson, Christopher. The Dynamics of World History
    • Dawson, Christopher. The Making of Europe
    • Duby, Georges and Robert Mandrou. A History of French Civilization: From the Year 1000 to the Present
    • Ellis, John Tracy. The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1834-1921. Two volumes.
    • Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I
    • Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume II (I don’t have Volume III)
    • Grant, Michael. The Rise of the Greeks
    • Grant, Michael. The Classical Greeks
    • Grant, Michael. From Alexander to Cleopatra
    • Grant, Michael. Jesus: An Historian’s Review of the Gospels
    • Hamilton, Edith. The Roman Way
    • Hazen, Charles Downer. Fifty Years of Europe, 1870-1919
    • Hexter, J. H. On Historians: Reappraisals of some of the masters of modern history
    • Jackson,  J. Hampden. Marx, Proudhon and European Socialism
    • Kennan, George F. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
    • Kertzer, Morris. What Is a Jew?
    • Lasky, Victor. Robert F. Kennedy: The Man and the Myth
    • Lyons, Eugene. Workers’ Paradise Lost
    • Mandelbaum, Maurice. The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge
    • McNeill, William H. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
    • Morison, Samuel Eliot. The European Discovery of America: the Northern Voyages
    • Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Oxford History of the American People
    • Murrell, Gary. Iron Pants: Oregon’s Anti-New Deal Governor, Charles Henry Martin
    • Namier, Sir Lewis. Vanished Supremacies: Essays on European History, 1812-1918
    • Smith, Huston. The Religions of Man
    • The Jews: Their History, Culture, and Religion. Third edition. ed. Louis Finkelstein. Two volumes.
    • The Oxford History of the Classical World, eds. John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray
    • The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe, ed. George Holmes
    • The Popes: A Concise Biographical History, eds. Eric John.  Two volumes, boxed.
    • Towards a New History: Dissenting Essays in American History, ed. Barton J. Bernstein
    • Wells, H. G. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. Third edition.
    • Villard, Oswald Garrison. Germany Embattled: An American Interpretation

Literature

Bartlett, John. Familiar Quotations, 14th edition, ed. Emily Morison Beck

Music

    • Scholes, Percy A. The Oxford Companion to Music
    • Wein, George. Myself among Others: A Life in Music

Philosophy

    • A Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. M. Rosenthal and P. Yudin
    • Adler, Mortimer J. Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography
    • Adler, Mortimer J. Philosopher Six Great Ideas
    • Adler, Mortimer J. Ten Philosophical Mistakes
    • American Philosophy and the Future, ed. Michael Novak
    • Analysis and History, ed. William H. Dray
    • Avineri, Shlomo. Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State
    • Berman, David. Berkeley
    • Bertocci, Peter. The Person God Is
    • Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order
    • Bowne, Borden P. The Principles of Ethics
    • Bradley, F. H. Ethical Studies
    • Bradley, F. H. The Principles of Logic
    • Burtt, E. A. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
    • Butcher, S. H. Harvard. Lectures on Greek Subjects
    • Butler, Joseph. The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed
    • Chesterton, G. K. Saint Thomas Aquinas, “The Dumb Ox”
    • Clark, Gordon H. A Christian Philosophy of Education
    • Clark, Gordon H. A Christian View of Men and Things
    • Clark, Gordon H. Dewey
    • Clark, Gordon H. Language and Theology
    • Clark, Gordon H. Selections from Hellenistic Philosophy
    • Clark, Gordon H. Thales to Dewey
    • Clark, Gordon H. The Philosophy of Gordon H. Clark: A Festschrift (Wheaton Lectures), ed. Ronald Nash
    • Clark, Gordon H. The Philosophy of Science and Belief in God
    • Clark, Gordon H. Three Types of Religious Philosophy
    • Clark, Gordon H. William James
    • Croce, Benedetto. Aesthetic: As science of expression and general lingustic
    • D’Arcy, M. C. Christian Morals
    • Davis, Charles. A Question of Conscience
    • Davis, Charles. Theology for Today
    • Donceel, Joseph. Philosophical Psychology
    • Donceel, Joseph. The Searching Mind
    • Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy (1927 edition)
    • Edman, Irwin. Philosopher’s Holiday
    • Essays in Philosophical Psychology, ed. Donald F. Gustafson
    • Finnis, John. Natural Law and Natural Rights
    • Fiske, John. The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge
    • Gilbert, Paul. The Philosophy of Nationalism
    • Gilson, Etienne. The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
    • God, History, and Historians: Modern Christian Views of History, ed. C. T. McIntire
    • Goldsmith, M.  M. Hobbes’s Science of Politics
    • Gordon H. Clark: Personal Recollections, ed. John Robbins
    • Green, Ronald M. Religious Reasons: The Rational and Moral Basis of Religious Belief
    • Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy. In three volumes
    • Hegel, G. W. F. Philosophy of Mind
    • Hibben, John Grier. The Problems of Philosophy
    • James, William. The Will to Believe and other essays in popular philosophy
    • Josey, Charles Conant. The Philosophy of Nationalism
    • Körner, Stephan. Kant
    • Matson, Wallace I. The Existence of God
    • Moreland, J. P. and Kai Nielsen. Does God Exist? The Debate between Theists and Atheists
    • Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and The Geneology of Morals
    • Noonan, Jr., John T. A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Theology
    • Ogden, Schubert M. The Reality of God
    • Osgood, Robert and Robert W. Tucker, Force, Order, and Justice
    • Perry, Ralph Barton. The Thought and Character of William James. (One-volume condensation)
    • Philosophical Analysis and History, ed. William H. Dray
    • Philosophical Interrogations, ed. Sydney and Beatrice Rome
    • Popper, Karl R. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
    • Popper, Karl R. The Open Society and Its Enemies. I: The Spell of Plato
    • Popper, Karl R. The Open Society and Its Enemies. II: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath
    • Plant, Raymond. Hegel
    • Polanyi, Michael. The Study of Man
    • Reck, Andrew J. Recent American Philosophy: Studies of Ten Representative Thinkers
    • Reck, Andrew J. Speculative Philosophy: A Study of Its Uses and Nature
    • Roberts, William Henry. The Problem of Choice: An Introduction to Ethics
    • Ross, James F. Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
    • Saxena, Sushil Kumar. Studies in the Metaphysics of Bradley
    • Schuon, Frithjof. The Transcendent Unity of Religions
    • Slote, Michael A. Reason and Skepticism
    • Smart, J. J. C. Philosophy and Scientific Realism
    • Smith, John E. Reason and God: Encounters of Philosophy and Religion
    • Spinoza: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Marjorie Grene
    • Spinoza: Essays in Interpretation, eds. Maurice Mandelbaum and Eugene Freeman
    • The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Simon Blackburn
    • The Philosophy of Nietzsche, ed. Geoffrey Clive
    • The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory Readings, eds., William P. Alston and 
    • The Range of Philosophy: Introductory Readings, eds., Harold H. Titus and Maylon H. Hepp
    • William P. Alston and 
    • Toulmin, Stephen and June Goodfield. The Fabric of the Heavens: The Development of Astronomy and Dynamics
    • Veatch, Henry B. Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation
    • von Herder, Johann Gottfried. Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
    • Walsh, W. H. Philosophy of History
    • Willey, Basil. The Seventeenth Century Background
    • Willey, Basil. More Nineteenth Century Studies
    • Willey, Basil. Nineteenth Century Studies
    • Willey, Basil. The Eighteenth Century Background
    • Wolfson, Abraham. Spinoza: A Life of Reason

Politics

    • Blanshard, Paul. American Freedom and Catholic Power. 1st ed.
    • Blanshard, Paul. American Freedom and Catholic Power. 2nd ed.
    • Blanshard, Paul. Communism, Democracy, and Catholic Power
    • Murray, John Courtney, S.J. We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition
    • Wills, Garry. Politics and Catholic Freedom
  • Theater

    • Gielgud’s Letters, ed. Richard Mangan
    • Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor Prepares

Theology

    • Ambitious to Be Well-Pleasing, ed. Guelzo. (Chapter 7 is Gordon H. Clark, “Lord God of Truth”)
    • Aquinas, Thomas. The Basic Writings of Thomas Aquinas (2 vols.)
    • Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologiae. Volume 1, The Existence of God, Part One: Questions 1-13
    • Barry, William. The Tradition of Scripture: Its Origin, Authority and Interpretation
    • Clark, Gordon H. Biblical Predestination
    • Clark, Gordon H. God’s Hammer: The Bible and Its Critics
    • Clark, Gordon H. Predestination in the Old Testament
    • Forster, Roger T. and V. Paul Marston. God’s Strategy in Human History
    • McKenzie, John L. The Roman Catholic Church
    • Paine, Thomas. The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
    • Saints and Ourselves, ed. Philip Caraman, S.J.
    • Sheed, Frank J. Theology for Beginners
    • The Christian Case against Abortion, ed. Richard L. Ganz