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NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel The Magazine Maze, Herbert R.Mayes -Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan -"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein ∙ American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell ∙ Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
This is unquestionably true. The difficulty arises when Epstein attempts to stretch a valid literary observation into a broad cultural thesis. Nearly all modern literatures question the aims of money and power. But so, rightly or wrongly, do mod ern unions, consumer groups and havenots. Epstein leaves the impression that Americans are stewing in ambivalence because they have read Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg. Publishing sales figures would not support such an impression...
...Epstein makes many sound and commonsensical points but frequently ignores evidence that would modify sweeping statements. He says, for example, that the brainy and ambitious are no longer attracted to basic indus tries like "extracting ore and minerals from the earth, revolutionizing technology through invention and advancements in organization...
...Epstein has many fine clashing ideals in his book. He needs to introduce more facts. -R. Z. Sheppard