O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years, by Howard Mumford Jones by Staughton Lynd Professor Jones surprises us at the outset. This book, in its mingled success and failure, suggests some important conclusions about…
The Americans, by Oscar Handlin; and The First New Nation, by Seymour Martin Lipset by Staughton Lynd Both "The Americans" and "The First New Nation" make implicit use of economic causes while projecting a type of theory…
Strength to Love, by Martin Luther King Jr.; The Negro Leadership Class, by Daniel C. Thompson; The New World of Negro Americans by Staughton Lynd Alongside the mass marches, the Freedom Walks, the continuing heroism of voter registration in the rural Deep South, a new…
The Ghetto Game, by Dennis Clark; and A Tale of Ten Cities, edited by Eugene J. Lipman and Albert Vorspan by Staughton Lynd In "The Ghetto Game," Dennis Clark joins James Conant and Michael Harrington to warn that all is far from well…
The Reconstruction of American History, edited by John Higham by Staughton Lynd THIS LOW-PRICED paperback conveniently introduces the general reader to the current shoptalk of American historians. Ten specialists discourse reflectively on…
The Image: or What Happened to the American Dream, by Daniel J. Boorstin by Staughton Lynd ALL SOCIAL SCIENCE assumes that men do not fully understand the reasons why they act as they do. It presupposes…
The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case, by Lee Benson by Staughton Lynd LEE BENSON IS A sociological gadfly who for some years has been probing the soft and vulnerable places in the…
Jane Addams & the Radical Impulse by Staughton Lynd The impulse to radicalism has been getting a bad press. One hesitates, of course, to call Jane Addams a "radical."
Urban Renewal-For Whom? by Staughton Lynd The persistence of America's slum problem has been discussed in this magazine by Michael Harrington. Here it is my purpose…
How the Cold War Began by Staughton Lynd AT THE banquet which closed the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin all offered toasts. When it came Churchill's turn,…
