A Waaaaa and an Appeal to the Overmind

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If you have a set of work keys and a set of home keys, make sure you take the former when going to your office. (I have spare house keys on my work keys, but the home keys set are fewer in number).


An appeal


I'm trying to get together a list of the Prozac Nation and Tipping Point type volumes from the seventies - yanno, the unexpected nonfiction bestsellers. ETA: The Zeitgeist surfers for the 1970s. A short list would include

• Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will [Corrected - thanks oursin]
  
• Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves [Corrected - thanks oursin]
  
• Lyall Watson, Supernature etc
  
• E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
  
• James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
  
• Alvin Toffler, Future Shock
  
• John Berger, Ways of Seeing
  

I'll add to this list as things occur to me - but I'm sure there's more. (Race and ethnicity? Civil Rights?)

TLS listing:

Books of the 1970s

Daniel Bell: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Isaiah Berlin: Russian Thinkers
Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously
Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures
Albert Hirschmann: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Leszek Kolakowski: Main Currents of Marxism
Hans Küng: On Being a Christian
Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
Gershom Scholem: The Messianic Idea in Judaism
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher: Small is Beautiful
Tibor Scitovsky: The Joyless Economy
Quentin Skinner: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago
Keith Thomas: Religion and the Decline of Magic

Comments

[gummitch.livejournal.com]

Was The Naked Ape sixties or seventies?

I don't know if you'd count them as unexpected bestsellers, but I think Civilization and The Ascent of Man sold quite well.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Naked Ape is 1967 - so an early influence.

The Clarke and Bronowski probably were more influential as documentaries - Civilisation is 1969, so still in the air, Ascent 1973 so a potential influence.