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...decision, though, to market The Wine Is Bitter as a "footnote to history" rather than a frank memoir was unfortunate. In this light, the author's homey quotations at the opening of the arbitrary chapters ("Compromise is less a sacrifice of principle than an admission of fallibility") seem absurd; and the important documentary of Dr. Eisenhower's personal involvement in the Tractors for Freedom Committee disappears as another inessential anecdore. To call the work political science is to misrepresent it. It is more accurately the saga of an American diplomat whose yankee charm shows clearly through his narrative's numberless...
...Contrary Experience, by Herbert Read. Born in time to be chased through the entire 20th century, Sir Herbert has been a fine soldier, successful bureaucrat, acclaimed critic, and in this memoir he comments on his complex life as one of the "alienated souls" who seek values without the support of religion...
Emmet Hughes, who calls himself a son of the New Deal era, demurs. He considers the Eisenhower years typical of American politics, not exceptional, and his book is less a memoir of the period than a lament for political purpose itself. Hughes joined the Eisenhower forces in 1952 as speech-writer and campaign strategist from a disinterested desire to save America's two-party system. He was less concerned about the possible arrogance and irresponsibility of a Democratic Party too long in power than about the increasing unreality of Republican leadership and policies too long without the experience of leading...
...English and Comparative Literature from Columbia, while his father was president of the university. Last week the pen finally proved mightier than the sword for Lieut. Colonel John S. D. Eisenhower, 42. Ending a nearly two-year Army leave of absence to research Dad's unfinished memoir on The White House Years, Young Ike resigned his commission to join Manhattan Publishers Doubleday & Company. Inc. as a nonfiction editor of history and biography. "This was not an easy thing to do," said John, who had only two years to go before qualifying for retirement and a $372.50 monthly pension...
This issue of Mosaic includes no undergraduate fiction or poetry, but does contain an essay, "The Relevance of Jane Austen: Remarks on Jewish Writing in America," by Lewis Kampf, and a memoir by the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer...