Major Sage Texts
- Thomas Carlyle - "Signs of the Times" (1829); Past and Present (1843); Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
- Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy (1869)
- John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice (1851-3); Unto this Last (1860)
- Henry David Thoreau - Life Without Principle; (1854); Slavery in Massachusetts (1854); A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
- Norman Mailer - The Armies of the Night (1968)
- Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
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