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6,139 Articles,
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The Cost of Freedom, by Henry C. Wallich
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The Cost of Freedom (1960)Henry C. Wallich
A New Look at Capitalism
6 Reviews, 1 Readable

Basic Values of Western Civilization (1960)Shepard B. Clough
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

Human Nature and the Human Condition (1959)Joseph Wood Krutch
6 Reviews, 3 Readable

Science Ponders Religion (1960)Harlow Shapley
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

Politics and the Arts (1961)Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Letter to M.D. Alembert on the Theatre
1 Review

The Creative Mind and Method (1960)Jack D. Summerfield and Lorlyn Thatcher
Exploring the Nature of Creativeness in American Arts, Sciences, and Professions
1 Review

The American Imagination (1960)Alan Pryce-Jones
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

Music as Metaphor (1961)Donald N. Ferguson
The Elements of Expression
1 Review

The Golden House of Nero (1960)Axel Boethius
Some Aspects of Roman Architecture
1 Review

The Orphic Voice (1961)Elizabeth Sewell
Poetry and Natural History
4 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Swinburne Letters (1960)Cecil Y. Lang and Algernon Swinburne
6 Reviews, 1 Readable

Rainer Maria Rilke (1961)Heinz F. Peters
Masks and the Man
1 Review

The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960)Randall Jarrell
Poems and Translations
6 Reviews, 1 Readable

Can These Bones Live? (1960)Edward Dahlberg
3 Reviews

Ezra Pound (1960)Charles Norman
4 Reviews

The Comic Sense of Henry James (1961)Richard Poirier
A Study of the Early Novels
1 Review


Collected Poems, 1930-1960 (1960)Richard Eberhart
5 Reviews, 1 Readable


Industrialism and Industrial Man (1960)Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, and Frederick H. Harbison, ...
The Problems of Labor and Management in Economic Growth
4 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Burden of Southern History (1960)C. Vann Woodward
10 Reviews, 3 Readable

The American Historian (1960)Harvey Wish
A Social-Intellectual History of the Writing of the American Past
6 Reviews

Great Presidential Decisions (1961)Richard B. Morris
State Papers that Changed the Course of History
3 Reviews, 1 Readable


The Unfinished Revolution (1960)Adam B. Ulam
An Essay on the Sources of Influence of Marxism and Communism
7 Reviews, 1 Readable

Settling Disputes in Soviet Society (1960)John N. Hazard
The Formative Years of Legal Institutions
5 Reviews, 2 Readable

France: Steadfast and Changing (1960)Raymond Aron
The Fourth to the Fifth Republic
4 Reviews, 1 Readable

The New Nigerian Elite (1960)Hugh H. Smythe and Mabel M. Smythe
3 Reviews
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