Andy Rooney loves these books by Darwin (as well as his 2-Volume Life and Letters) (although his copies are leather bound).

Quoted: Amazon.com: From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals): Books: Charles Darwin,Edward O. Wilson by Charles Darwin,Edward O. Wilson

Andy Rooney says, "Jacques is the smartest person I've ever known."

Quoted: This book has guided more Ph.D. theses into successful completion and more decent, serious academic works through research and writing and into print than any other single work available.

Andy Rooney says "one of the best writers and thinkers there ever was."

Quoted: 1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface to Morals endorses liberal democracy. Partial Contents: Part I The Dissolution of the Ancestral Order; Part II The Foundations of Humanism; and Part III The Genius of Modernity.

Andy Rooney says "if you do any writing at all, you can't be without this."

Quoted: For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
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The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse.
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Amazon.com: Fowler's Modern English Usage: Books: R. W. Burchfield by R. W. Burchfield