Thomas M. Kerr, Jr. Recommended Reading List

Thomas M. Kerr, Jr., associate professor emeritus of law and industrial administration

Thomas M. Kerr, Jr., served on the faculty of the Tepper School for nearly 37 years until his retirement in 2001. He passed away in February. His introduction of business ethics at Carnegie Mellon in the 1960s made him a pioneer in management education, influencing two generations of students and future business leaders. Read more on Tom Kerr's contributions to the business school and his service to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Below is just one of the many reading lists Kerr recommened to students, alumni, faculty and friends over the years.

Suggested Reading List of Thomas M. Kerr, Jr.

• Abraham Lincoln, The Second Inaugural Address
• Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
• Alan Barth, The Rights of Free Men
• Alan Barth, Prophets with Honor
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
• Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet
• Barbara W. Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram and/or The Guns of August
• Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process
• Bhagavad Gita, Book of Amos
• Buddha, The Sermon at Bernares
• Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Writing a Woman’s Life
• Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne
• Charles Lindblom, Politics and Markets
• Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
• Christopher Stone, Where the Law Ends
• Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life
• Dante, The Divine Comedy
• David Garrow, Bearing the Cross
• Diane Johnson, The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and other Lesser Lives
• E. E. Cummings, my sweet old etcetera
• E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
• Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way/The Roman Way
• Edmond Cahn, The Moral Decision
• Ernest Hemmingway, The Sun Also Rises
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
• George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
• George Eliot, Silas Marner
• George Whitney Martin, Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins
• Goethe, Faust
• Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts
• Henry Glassie, Irish Folk History: Tales from the North
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick and/or Billy Budd
• Homer, The Illiad
• Hoyles Games
• Irving Brant, The Bill of Rights
• Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
• James Joyce, Ulysses; Dubliners
• James Madison, The Federalist No. 10
• James Matles and James Higgins, Them and Us
• Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
• John McPhee, The Pine Barrens
• John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
• John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
• Joseph A. Schumpeter, Can Capitalism Survive?
• Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben
• Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
• Joseph Heller, Catch 22
• Judge Curtis Bok, Commonwealth v. Gordon, 66, PA. D & C 101
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
• Lorraine Hansbury, A Raisin in the Sun
• Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
• Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 NY. 458, 164 N.E. 545. 8888
• Michael Kammen, A Machine That Would Go of Itself
• Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution
• Morton Mintz, At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
• Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs
• Ole Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth
• Peter Mathiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• Plato, The Republic
• Plutarch’s Lives
• Rebecca West, The Meaning of Treason and/or Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
• Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
• Richard Kluger, Simple Justice
• Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
• Robert L. Heilbroner, Marxism: For and Against
• Sigmund Freud, Delusion and Dream
• Sissela Bok, Secrets: on the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation and/or Lying:Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
• Sophocles, Antigone
• Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown’s Body
• Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters
• The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
• Thomas Mann, The Tables of the Law
• Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
• Tsesze, The Golden Meaning of Confucianism
• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
• Vachel Lindsay, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
• Virgil, The Aeneid
• Wesley Mitchell, What Veblem Taught: Selected Writings of Thorstein Veblen
• Willa Cather, My Antonia
• William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich