Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans."

Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" ("Not only is it dull but it is troublesome, and practically nobody ever reads it").

Andrei Y. Vishinsky's "The Law of the Soviet State" ("Fascinating footwork in the field of Soviet gobbledegook, but uhgl hardly an enthralling best seller type").

"Paul Bowles, "The Sheltering Sky" and "The Delicate Prey" ("No moralist, I nevertheless feel crawly after reading stories in which a good healthy sexual relationship with a goat would be considered normal to the point of humdrum").

The Best

Excluding the Bible and the classics, the Nieman Fellows thought these the best books they'd read:

Parrington's "Main Currents in American Thought."

William Faulkner's "Light in August."

Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness" ("Most thought-provoking analysis of will take for democracy and searching idea of what it will take for democracy to survive"), three votes.

James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific" ("There's a book I really loved").

Harold Tappen Wright's "Islandia" ("Best book to read upon coming home from war").

James Boyd's "Drums" and "The Long Hunt" ("Historical novels which are factually correct and written with exciting artistry").

Stephen Vincent Benet's short stories, "The Bedside Book of Short Stories," and "Fairy Stories" ("Collections of short stories every writer should own").

Van Praag's "Combat" ("Least appreciated good war book").

V. O. Key, Jr., "Southern Politics" ("The best explanation and diagnosis of deep South politics I've ever read").