Word: harcourt
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...when Marx published Das Kapital, and most anti-Communists answer with a theory of capitalism developed more than 150 years ago by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations. The reason for this, says Adolph A. Berle Jr. in The Twentieth Century Capitalist Revolution (Harcourt, Brace; $3), is that "no adequate study of twentieth-century capitalism exists . . . No one, it seems, has seriously undertaken to restate the actual practice of American capitalism as it has developed since, let us say, 1930, describing its operations and results, and readjusting theories to conform to fact...
...WOMAN IN BERLIN, Anonymous (319 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4), is the stark diary of a genteel blonde who tells about her experiences during the Russians' nightmare conquest of Berlin. These experiences come down to one thing: rape. Singly and in groups, the Russians prowled through the rubble-strewn city in search of women. After being raped four times in two days, the anonymous author of the diary decided to find a strong wolf to protect her from the pack. Protection came at the customary price, first from a lieutenant, then from a major (of whom she eventually became quite...
...GOLDEN ECHO (272 pp.)-David Garnett-Harcourt, Brace...
...TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE (378 pp.)-Erich Maria Remarque-Harcourt, Brace...
...writes President George N. Shuster of Manhattan's Hunter College in his foreword to Catholicism in America (Harcourt, Brace; $3.75). The new book, originally a series in the Roman Catholic weekly, The Commonweal, has 17 authors, all but two of them Catholic. They cover the substance of many of the arguments a U.S. Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their...