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Twenty-four outstanding books
The American Scholar, Winter 1957, pp. 110-123
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. New Lives for Old (1956)
    Margaret Mead
    Manus, 1928-1953: Cultural Transformation
    6 Reviews, 2 Readable
  2. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1956)
    William L. Thomas, Jr., Carl O. Sauer, and Marston Bates, ...
    1 Review
  3. Pelican in the Wilderness (1956)
    F. Fraser Darling
    A Naturalist's Odyssey in North America
    1 Review
  4. In Silence I Speak (1956)
    George N. Shuster
    The Story of Cardinal Mindszenty Today and of Hungary's "new Order"
    3 Reviews
  5. The Meaning of Yalta (1956)
    John L. Snell
    Big Three Diplomacy and the New Balance of Power
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  6. Russia Leaves the War (1956)
    George F. Kennan
    Soviet-American Relations 1917-1920
    13 Reviews, 4 Readable
  7. Reinhold Niebuhr (1956)
    Charles W. Kegley and Robert W. Bretall
    His Religious, Social, and Political Thought
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  8. Contemporary European Philosophy (1957)
    Joseph M. Bochenski
    1 Review
  9. Sovereignty: An Inquiry Into the Political Good (1957)
    Bertrand de Jouvenel
    8 Reviews
  10. An International Economy (1956)
    Gunnar Myrdal
    Problems and Perspectives
    8 Reviews, 2 Readable
  11. Contemporary Capitalism (1956)
    John Strachey
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  12. The Negro Potential (1956)
    Eli Ginzberg, James K. Anderson, and Douglas W. Bray, ...
    4 Reviews
  13. The Republicans: A History of Their Party (1956)
    Malcolm C. Moos
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  14. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph (1956)
    Frank Freidel
    10 Reviews, 2 Readable
  15. The Presidency Today (1956)
    Edward S. Corwin and Louis W. Koenig
    8 Reviews, 2 Readable
  16. The American Presidency (1956)
    Clinton Rossiter
    7 Reviews, 2 Readable
  17. The Course of American Democratic Thought (1940)
    Ralph Henry Gabriel
    An Intellectual History since 1815
    9 Reviews, 2 Readable
  18. Freedom's Fetters (1956)
    James Morton Smith
    The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  19. Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology (1956)
    Constance McL. Green
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  20. The Fur Hunters of the Far West (1956)
    Alexander Ross and Kenneth A. Spaulding
    3 Reviews
  21. The Search for Captain Slocum (1956)
    Walter Magnes Teller
    A Biography
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  22. Critical Approaches to Literature (1956)
    David Daiches
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  23. The Raven and the Whale (1956)
    Perry Miller
    Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene
    7 Reviews, 1 Readable
  24. D. H. Lawrence: Novelist (1955)
    F.R. Leavis
    7 Reviews, 2 Readable
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