ARCHIVE - BOOKS AND OTHER WORKS CITED BY BARZUN

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You are terrific Elizabeth..this was a big job and is very helpful.

Thank you again.

Bentley

[Elizabeth S]

From "The Great Illusion":

page 686: While discussing Shaw, Fabians, and the formation of welfare states, Barzun says "The book to read is This Little Band of Prophets by Anne Fremantle."
This little band of prophets The British Fabians

page 689: While discussing left and right, liberals, conservatives, and labor, Barzun says, "The book to read on arguments, briefly and beautifully dramatized long ago about shades of political opinion, is A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes Dickinson."


page 689: While discussing the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Barzun says, "Read Bernard Shaw's play Arms and the Man.


page 695: While discussing Anarchists and Nihilists and the assassinations of heads of state, Barzun says, "Read Oscar Wilde's melodrama Vera or The Nihilists."


page 697: While discussing a murder that happened in Paris around the time of the armistice, Barzun says, "The book to read is Death of an Editor by Peter Shankland."
Death of an editor The Caillaux drama

page 697: While discussing Russian issues and the lack of hope as expressed in literature, Barzun says, "Read The Seven That Were Hanged."


page 698: While discussing the commonality of traveling for writers and composers, Barzun says, "The book to read is Buda-Pest 1900 by John Lukacs."


page 698: While discussing how the Germans were particularly interested in an "international outlook," Barzun says, "The book to read is again The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig."


page 700: While discussing how difficult it was to argue against war, Barzun says, "The book to read is Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914 by Ronald N. Stomberg."
Redemption by War The Intellectuals and 1914

page 701: While discussing how difficult it was for even the clergy to speak against war, Barzun says, "The book to read is Society at War by Caroline Playne."

page 702: After stating that "war was overrated as a moral detergent," Barzun says, "The book to read is The Sexual History of the World War by Magnus Hirschfeld, 'Translated from the German and Intended for Circulation Among Mature Educated Persons Only.'"


page 707: Again discussing how difficult it was to speak against war, Barzun says, "The book to read is Shaw's Common Sense About the War, which adroitly takes to pieces the thought-cliches of the embattled mind."
Perhaps in here?

page 708: While discussing the value of protecting brilliant minds from having to fight, Barzun says, "The book to leaf through is L'Europe Blessee in English despite its title) by Henry Lafarge."

[Elizabeth S]

From "The Artist Prophet and Jester":

page 722: While discussing Duchamp painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa, Barzun says, "The reproductions to look at are in The World of Marcel Duchamp by Calvin Tompkins."
The World of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968

page 724: While discussing dehumanizing in art, Barzun says, "The book to read is The Dehumanization of Art by Ortega y Gasset."


page 725: While discussing art styles after WWI, Barzun says, "The book to look through is The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson."


page 727: While discussing art in advertising, Barzun says, "The book to read is Loewy's account of his odyssey: Industrial Design."


page 729: While discussing musical innovations requiring specially built instruments, Barzun says, "The book to read is Genesis of a Music by Partch himself."


page 735: While discussing the difference between a flapper and a damsel, Barzun says, "For visual evidence, look at the drawings of John Held, Jr., and then read The Jazz Age by Percy Marks."

page 740: While discussing crime fiction after Holmes, Barzun says, "The book to browse in is Catalogue of Crime, ed. by J. Barzun and W. H. Taylor."
A Catalogue of Crime/Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you once again Elizabeth for pursuing this task..all of these books are so worthwhile and to think that Barzun was intimately familiar with all of them.

[Elizabeth S]

From "Embracing the Absurd":

page 745: While introducing the 1920s, Barzun says, "The book to read, despite its invidious title, is The Crazy Years by William Wiser."
Crazy Years Paris in the Twenties

page 746: While discussing the treaty and League of Nations, Barzun says, "The small book to read is Between the Wars by D. C. Somervell."

page 749: While discussing Vichy leader Pierre Laval, Barzun says, "The book to read is Laval, Patriot or Traitor? by Rene de Chambrun."
Pierre Laval Traitor or patriot?

page 754: While discussing Agate and wishing his works were still in print, Barzun says, "Still on library shelves is one volume, The Later Ego, which combines nos. 8 and 9, ed. by J. Barzun."

page 768: While discussing economics, Barzun says, "But both groups in fact agree on the mechanics that Keynes described in his epoch-making General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money."


page 770: After summarizing parts of The Brothers Karamazov, Barzun says, "The resume should tempt to reading the masterpiece, which is in part II, book V, chapter V of The Brothers Karamazov. Separate editions of The Grand Inquisitor are also available."

[Elizabeth S]

From "Demotic Life and Times":

page 778: While discussing how to administer a big business, Barzun says, "An interested reader can learn about good 20C business management from The Art of Being an Executive by Louis B. Lundborg."
The Art of Being an Executive

page 779: While discussing the common man and the move toward decadence, Barzun says, "The book to read is The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard."


page 788: While discussing the choice between art and professionalism, Barzun says, "The book to read is Journalism Versus Art by Max Eastman."


page 793: While discussing American educational thought, Barzun says, "The book to read is The Transformation of the School by Lawrence Cremin."
The Transformation of the School Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957.

page 798: While looking for a thinker in 20C to compare with earlier thinkers, Barzun suggests Ortega y Gasset and says, "The book to begin with is The Modern Theme."
Modern Theme

page 798: While still advocating Ortega y Gasset, Barzun says, "The book to read is: Ortega y Gasset: A Pragmatic Philosophy of Life by John T. Graham."
A Pragmatist Philosophy of Life in Ortega Y Gasset (Comprehensive Studies on the Thought of Ortega Y Gasset, Vol 1)

page 799: While discussing how the West is the part of the world that has shown how to have emancipation and enjoyment, Barzun says, "A book to browse in is Pandemonium by Humphrey Jennings."
Pandaemonium, 1660-1886 or

[Elizabeth S]

And, DONE! At least with the bracketed recommendations. I did put in a few references as I caught them, but I didn't mark those as I read, so I probably missed 99% of them. Even if I had marked those as I read, I'd probably have missed 50%. Such is the mark of an author with an amazing capacity and a long life to fill that capacity.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you for what you have been able to do. As I reread it; if I notice any missed I will simply add them to this list. Barzun certainly amazed me.

[Michael]

This is an astounding bibliography. Though four or five months late coming to this thread, I am impressed and intrigued and will put Barzun on my TBR list, a list I try to keep as short as humanly possible so that I really do read them all. Hats off to you, Elizabeth!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Yes, it is Michael and certainly helps the person trying to explore cultural history. Elizabeth really tackled this effort and did a terrific job.

[Elizabeth S]

Why, thank you! Now you know why I am so familiar with the "add book/author" feature. (Although back then we weren't putting authors in all the time.)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

We have realized the error of our ways. And I plan to go through all of those threads and make it up to them; so that our group threads are cross populating correctly and all threads can serve as reference points.

And yes you are a pro.

[Elizabeth S]

Bentley wrote: "We have realized the error of our ways. And I plan to go through all of those threads and make it up to them; so that our group threads are cross populating correctly and all threads can serve as ..."

Now THAT is an ambitious project. I'll see if I can help with this Barzun stuff. Although just finding the book in the first place was often quite the task.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

That would be a very big help Elizabeth..thank you.