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The American Scholar • 71 Years, 284 Issues, 6,139 Articles, 43,357pp
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The Revolving Bookstand
Brief comments on recent books
The Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith
The American Scholar, Autumn 1958, pp. 508-527
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. The Affluent Society (1958)
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    21 Reviews, 8 Readable
  2. Foreign Policy: The Next Phase, the 1960s (1958)
    Thomas K. Finletter
    6 Reviews
  3. Germany and Freedom: A Personal Appraisal (1958)
    James Bryant Conant
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. The Bill of Rights (1958)
    Learned Hand
    The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 1958
    6 Reviews
  5. The Lonesome Road (1958)
    J. Saunders Redding
    The Story of the Negro's Part in America
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  6. The Undiscovered Self (1958)
    C.G. Jung
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  7. Nature and Historical Experience (1958)
    John Herman Randall, Jr.
    Essays in Naturalism and in the Theory of History
    2 Reviews
  8. New Bottles for New Wine (1958)
    Julian Huxley
    Essays
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  9. Of Stars and Men (1958)
    Harlow Shapley
    Human Response to an Expanding Universe
    6 Reviews, 2 Readable
  10. Earth's Shifting Crust (1958)
    Charles H. Hapgood
    A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science
    2 Reviews
  11. Arabesque and Honeycomb (1958)
    Sacheverell Sitwell
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  12. The London Diary (1717-1721) and Other Writings... (1958)
    Louis B. Wright, Marion Tinling, and William Byrd, ...
    4 Reviews
  13. The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958)
    Thomas Herbert Johnson and Theodora V.W. Ward, ...
    6 Reviews, 3 Readable
  14. D.H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography (1957)
    Edward Nehls
    9 Reviews, 3 Readable
  15. The Present Age in British Literature (1958)
    David Daiches
    2 Reviews
  16. Man in Modern Fiction (1958)
    Edmund Fuller
    Some Minority Opinions on Contemporary American Writing
    8 Reviews, 3 Readable
  17. American Moderns (1958)
    Maxwell Geismar
    From Rebellion to Conformity
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  18. The Fugitives (1958)
    John M. Bradbury
    A Critical Account
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  19. J.B. A Play in Verse (1958)
    Archibald MacLeish
    7 Reviews, 1 Readable
  20. A Friend in Power (1958)
    Carlos Baker
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  21. A Place Without Twilight (1958)
    Peter S. Feibleman
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  22. Victoria at Night, and Other Stories (1958)
    Uli Beigel
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
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