Winter 1957 Issue, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR

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- Egyptian Retrospect
  Ihab H. Hassan
  , pp. 9-22
  A Partial View in Changing Perspective
- The Decline of Book Reviewing
  Geoffrey Wagner
  , pp. 23-36
- Fisherman on a Foggy Day
  Dorothy Cowles Pinkney
  , pp. 37-38
- Mr. Riesman's Consumers
  Robert Wheeler
  , pp. 39-50
- Portions of a Letter from Russia
  Morris L. Ernst
  , pp. 51-64
- The State
  Don Gordon
  , pp. 65-66
- History and Historical Novels
  Jay Williams
  , pp. 67-74
- Santayana at Home
  John Linehan
  , pp. 75-87
- If You Don't Mind My Saying So
  Joseph Wood Krutch
  , pp. 88-91
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  The Politics of Art (Review)
  Hazard Adams
  , pp. 92-95
  Icon and Idea, by Herbert Read
  1. Icon and Idea by Herbert Read
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  Education in America (Review)
  William T. Hastings
  , pp. 96-99
  The Citadel of Learning, by James Bryant Conant
  1. The Citadel of Learning by James Bryant Conant
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  Conformism Again! (Review)
  Robert Langbaum
  , pp. 100-103
  In Search of Heresy, by John W. Aldridge
  1. In Search of Heresy by John W. Aldridge
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  A Vivid Reconstruction (Review)
  Asher B. Lans
  , pp. 104-109
  Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940, by James MacGregor Burns
  1. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns
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  Brief Comments (24 Reviews) , pp. 110-123
  Twenty-four outstanding books
  1. New Lives for Old by Margaret Mead
  2. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth by William L. Thomas, Jr., Carl O. Sauer, and Marston Bates, ...
  3. Pelican in the Wilderness by F. Fraser Darling
  4. In Silence I Speak by George N. Shuster
  5. The Meaning of Yalta by John L. Snell
  6. Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan
  7. Reinhold Niebuhr by Charles W. Kegley and Robert W. Bretall
  8. Contemporary European Philosophy by Joseph M. Bochenski
  9. Sovereignty: An Inquiry Into the Political Good by Bertrand de Jouvenel
  10. An International Economy by Gunnar Myrdal
  11. Contemporary Capitalism by John Strachey
  12. The Negro Potential by Eli Ginzberg, James K. Anderson, and Douglas W. Bray, ...
  13. The Republicans: A History of Their Party by Malcolm C. Moos
  14. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph by Frank Freidel
  15. The Presidency Today by Edward S. Corwin and Louis W. Koenig
  16. The American Presidency by Clinton Rossiter
  17. The Course of American Democratic Thought by Ralph Henry Gabriel
  18. Freedom's Fetters by James Morton Smith
  19. Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology by Constance McL. Green
  20. The Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross and Kenneth A. Spaulding
  21. The Search for Captain Slocum by Walter Magnes Teller
  22. Critical Approaches to Literature by David Daiches
  23. The Raven and the Whale by Perry Miller
  24. D. H. Lawrence: Novelist by F.R. Leavis
- The Reader Replies, pp. 124-130