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NONFICTION 1. Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock...
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...also found his conservative beliefs frequently at odds with the paper's editorial liberalism. Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, he recalls, once wrote him a letter taking him to task for having "answered its editorials in my columns." In this era of growing national conservatism, however, much of what Krock says will find a receptive audience...
More receptive, perhaps, than even Krock would welcome. The nation is, as he describes it, quite obviously torn and tormented by the problems of an age more complex than man has ever known. Yet not even Krock is convinced that his rumblings of impending doom should be taken full strength. With the innate humor he seldom displayed in 60 years of portentous prose, he recalls in his memoirs the advice once offered him by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Cheer up, Arthur. Things have seldom been as bad as you said they were...