This passionate account of how rock’n’roll changed the world was written with the wild energy of its subject matter.ġ5. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom by Nik Cohn (1969)
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The Australian feminist’s famous polemic remains a masterpiece of passionate free expression in which she challenges a woman’s role in society.ġ4. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970) Sacks’s moving account of how, as a doctor in the late 1960s, he revived patients who had been neurologically “frozen” by sleeping sickness reverberates to this day.ġ3.
This raw, tender, unguarded collection transcends politics, reflecting Heaney’s desire to move “like a double agent among the big concepts”. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)Īn intoxicating renewal of evolutionary theory that coined the idea of the meme and paved the way for Professor Dawkins’s later, more polemical works. This polemical masterpiece challenging western attitudes to the east is as topical today as it was on publication.Ī compelling sense of urgency and a unique voice make Herr’s Vietnam memoir the definitive account of war in our time.ġ0. Tom Wolfe raised reportage to dazzling new levels in his quest to discover what makes a man fly to the moon. The theoretical physicist’s mega-selling account of the origins of the universe is a masterpiece of scientific inquiry that has influenced the minds of a generation. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)
This remarkably candid memoir revealed not only a literary talent, but a force that would change the face of US politics for ever.Ħ. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995) These passionate, audacious poems addressed to Hughes’s late wife, Sylvia Plath, contribute to the couple’s mythology and are a landmark in English poetry.ĥ. Naomi Klein’s timely anti-branding bible combined a fresh approach to corporate hegemony with potent reportage from the dark side of capitalism.
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