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ANYONE WHO HAS read Auden's earlier poetry must wonder why his genius petered out in this painful, disappointing way. Some have felt Auden's return to Christianity, capitalism and official morality to be the prime betrayal of his talent. But he continues to write great poetry after these ideological...
Except that the world of those hymns, the world Ives liked to think had shaped the New England Transcendentalists, didn't quite coincide with the world he lived in. There'd been a double-sidedness to the tradition the Transcendentalists came from from the beginning: The Protestant ethic would later...
Davis was reluctant to write an autobiography, she says, because she feared focus on her personal struggles might detract from the movement for liberation of all oppressed peoples. But Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a moving political statement; one that emphasizes that the same forces that have guided her life...
Another critical book, Inside the Company: A C.I.A. Diary, will be published in London this January. In it Author Philip Agee, who, after twelve years of undercover exploits for the CIA in Latin America, switched to the side of the leftist revolutionaries he had been hired to defeat, calls the...
So there was. The new chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers is a longtime friend and disciple of Ayn Rand, the Russian-born author whose novels of rebellious achiever-heroes (We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) and nonfiction books have sold at least 12 million...