Other Authors Recommended by Pierre Goodrich

About this Collection

In addition to the names inscribed on the walls of the Goodrich Seminar Room in the Library at Wabash College, Indiana, Goodrich also recommended the works of the following authors.

Also see:

Key Authors

Key People

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton

Avicenna

Avicenna

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt

Carl von Clausewitz

Carl von Clausewitz

Pierre F. Goodrich

Pierre F. Goodrich

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Friedrich August von Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek

Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker

John Jay

John Jay

Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

James Madison

James Madison

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises

Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

Roscoe Pound

Roscoe Pound

Leonard E. Read

Leonard E. Read

Samuel

Samuel

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

Voltaire

Voltaire

Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Titles & Essays

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A Dissertation upon Parties: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

I should be clear. I am aware that Bolingbroke's Dissertation Upon Parties has nothing to do with the kinds of parties we are all anticipating as 2022 begins to transform into 2023. That said, I was entirely unable to resist posting…
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A Toast: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Recently, I've been diving into the Liberty Fund rare book room every Friday to find and share a treasure with readers of this blog. I hope my posts so far have persuaded you of the wealth of materials that we have on hand in the…
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Alexis de Tocqueville

This is a collection of key extracts by, and essays and study guides about Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859).

See the Liberty Matters online discussion of Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited.

See also the following…

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An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

We've certainly highlighted more extravagantly produced books from our rare book collection. I'm a sucker for marbled endpapers, gold stamping, raised detailing, and glorious illustrations. It would be easy to pass by this volume,…
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Antigone: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Antigone is one of the greatest literary debates about freedom and responsibility in human history, and one of our most enduring works of literature as well. Pierre Goodrich's 1900 edition of Antigone is clearly well loved, and…
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Darwin’s The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Liberty Fund's founder had an abiding interest in the history of science. His library contains works by Boyle and Newton, and he listed Galileo, Avicenna, Ptolemy, and other scientific thinkers on the wall in the Goodrich Seminar…
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De Motu Cordis: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

When I blogged about Pierre Goodrich's copies of Darwin, I mentioned his long-standing interest in the history of science. Finding a modern (1941) translation of William Harvey's masterwork, De Motu Cordis (The Motion of the Heart)…
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Essays of Elia: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Finals week is upon us, and students everywhere are reviewing notes, writing papers, sitting exams, and hoping to remember enough of what they've read to succeed. Pierre Goodrich's copy of Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia opens a…
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Faust: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

This visit to the Liberty Fund rare book room is for the mid-century modern design fans. Pierre Goodrich's 1941 copy of Goethe's Faust, published by Knopf, is a perfect example of the charms of mid century book design, as well as…
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Hobbes Translation of Thucydides: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

This is the book that knocked my socks off the first time I visited Liberty Fund's rare book collection, more than twenty years ago. It is a 1648 edition of Hobbes's 1629 translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War…
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Hooker’s Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

It is hard to overstate the importance of Richard Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity. The book set out to describe the ways in which the Church of England was distinctive--neither Catholic nor Calvinist--and wound up all but…
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Hume’s History of England: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Some of the most remarkable books in the Liberty Fund rare book room come from the collection of the American historian Joseph Hamburger. Acquired in the late 90s, the selections from Hamburger's collection that we own are some of…
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John Toland’s Tetradymus: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

One of the great joys of working at Liberty Fund, and of working with our websites, in particular, is the chance to learn about so many new things. Without Walter Donway's recent posts on the Irish Enlightenment--and about John…
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Johnson’s Dictionary: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

One of the real pleasures of working at Liberty Fund is having the chance to bring office visitors into our rare book room to explore its hidden treasures. One of the books I get particularly excited about is our beautiful two volume…
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Letters from Ireland: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

The copy of Harriet Martineau's Letters from Ireland that lives in the Liberty Fund rare book room as part of the Hamburger collection, seems to be an idea book to take off the shelves for both Women's History Month and St.…
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Madame de Stael: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

This first edition of an English translation of Lady Blennerhasset's Madame de Stael: Her Friends and Her Influence in Politics and Literature, which comes to the Liberty Fund archives through the Hamburger collection, seems a…
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Men and Snakes: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Look, we all know how it is. You sit down with the Wall Street Journal, there's a faint haze, a buzzing noise, maybe some flashing lights, and you're suddenly the proud possessor of 5 or 6 new books on topics that you didn't know…
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Miracles: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

The concurrence of Ramadan, Pesach, and Easter sent me to the Liberty Fund archives to see if I could find an appropriate book title to highlight this week. Goodrich's collection did not disappoint.
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Pilgrim’s Progress: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

I have, I must confess, romantic and childish notions about John Bunyan's great 1678 allegorical novel, The Pilgrim's Progress. Undoubtedly my notions date from my reading of Little Women when I was a teen. Louisa May Alcott adapts…
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Tai Shang Kan-Ying Pien: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Last week we visited the Liberty Fund rare book room to take a look at a beautiful early edition of one of the most canonical, and canonizing, books in the English language, Johnson's Dictionary. This week, I thought it might be fun…
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Tales and Maxims from the Talmud: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

I'm currently reading the Talmud--a record of more than 600 years worth of rabbinic teaching, commentary, debate, and discussion) at the rate of one Hebrew page a day. (I'm reading it in English, which works out to about 5 pages per…
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The Adventures of Marco Polo: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

With the official start of summer this week, the world seems to be gearing up for travel. The OLL staff has been everywhere from Arizona to Glasgow to Jerusalem, with a lot more travel coming up through the summer month.
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The Lady and the Tycoon: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

The lively colors of this book from Pierre Goodrich's personal collection made it jump off the shelf during this week's visit to the Liberty Fund rare book room. The title is not, as I had first speculated, that of a romance novel.…
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The Odyssey: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

One of Pierre Goodrich's long time hobbies was making reading lists of recommended reading for a well-rounded, well-educated person. He made (at least) one while planning Liberty Fund. He made one for undergraduates at Wabash…
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The Science of Dining: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

“The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society.”~ Judith Martin…
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The Works of Machiavelli: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Few writers can have been more controversial than Machiavelli, whose very name became an adjective meaning "cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous" with particular reference to those who behave thusly in the political arena. I,…
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Translations from the Chinese: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

Arthur Waley's early 20th century translations opened up the subtle beauties and nuances of classical Chinese poetry to a whole new audience. Still regarded as exceptionally well done, Waley's translations were accurate and erudite,…
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Trollope’s Belgium and West Germany: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

What better author from the Liberty Fund archives could there be to mark Women's History Month than Frances "Fanny" Trollope? The mother of the prolific and respected novelist Anthony Trollope, Frances Trollope is widely considered…
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Voltaire’s A Philosophical Dictionary: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room

By: Sarah Skwire

I pulled Pierre Goodrich's copy of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary off the shelves because of the glorious mid 20th century book design. The striking cream and black checkerboard is eye-catching and emphasizes the "marquee"…
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