Johnson So Far: II: Civil Rights by Bayard Rustin When Lyndon Johnson goes before a joint session of Congress and proclaims that "We Shall Overcome," how is the civil-rights…
An American Dream, by Norman Mailer by Richard Poirier William James probably would have admired Norman Mailer's "An American Dream." And since to read James is more instructive about…
An Area of Darkness, by V. S. Naipaul by John Mander The strengths of Mr. Naipaul's book lie, then, where one would expect them to lie--in his novelist's ear for talk,…
From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought, by Karl Lowith by Werner J. Dannhauser This book was completed in Japan in 1939 and first published in Switzerland in 1941. At that time its author…
Jews and Americans, by Irving Malin by George P. Elliott In this book Irving Malin is concerned with seven important contemporary poets and fiction writers who are both Jews and…
Jews, Gentiles, and the New Establishment by Dennis H. Wrong In "The Protestant Establishment," E. Digby Baltzell shares the liberal indignation over racial and ethnic discrimination. Baltzell does not, however,…
Johnson So Far: I: The Great Society by Robert Lekachman Lyndon B. Johnson is without question more lovingly immersed in domestic issues, and more effective in getting his programs through…
Johnson So Far: II: Civil Rights by Bayard Rustin When Lyndon Johnson goes before a joint session of Congress and proclaims that "We Shall Overcome," how is the civil-rights…
Johnson So Far: III: Foreign Policy by Maurice Goldbloom In the autumn of 1963 the international prestige of the United States stood higher than at any previous time since…
Nazi Murders and German Politics by David Schoenbaum It took only two weeks for the Bundestag to cover the route from mystique to politique. On March 10, before…
The American Reading Problem by Selma Fraiberg This decade of public commotion over reading methods and the teaching of literature has not yet produced major reforms.
The Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience, by Harold Rosenberg by Henry David Aiken Not least among Mr. Rosenberg's manifest powers as a chronicler, front-runner, and occasional monitor to "the art establishment," as he…
What Was the Matter with Henry Adams? by Marcus Cunliffe Like a half-buried former civilization--famous, extensive, and perplexing--the Adams family is being uncovered for us. Henry of the fourth generation…
