Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...granted the fact that the U.S. Constitution has outlived practically every other written constitution of the past two centuries. But you would never know it to read the books written by the intellectuals of 1942 and 1943. Charles Beard (The Republic), Peter Drucker (The Future of Industrial Man), Hamilton Basso (Mainstream), Herbert Agar (A Time for Greatness), Henry Wallace (The Century of the Common Man), James Truslow Adams (The American), Walter Lippmann (whose The Good Society, originally published in 1937, has just been reissued with a new preface), and Isabel Paterson (The God of the Machine) have all taken part...
MAINSTREAM-Hamilton Basso-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...seven books Hamilton Basso has written of the South. The region of his novelist's imagination is a sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
From Cotton Mather to F. D. R. In Mainstream Hamilton Basso has a new character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like...
What holds the book together is Hamilton Basso's industrious attempt to prove that the theoretical works of American statesmen have a practical, working, constant significance in the daily lives of average Americans. The quality that makes it of contemporary value is its reminder of the distance U.S. intellectuals have traveled since Sinclair Lewis' first works: between Main Street and Mainstream there is the difference between an indictment for murder and the studying of a will. Where the plain American appeared to Mencken and Lewis-and to Author Basso in his early works-as a power well-nigh...