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...TIME by Robert Strausz-Hupé. 284 pages. Norton...
Good autobiographers should have happy childhoods, when the nightingales were singing in the orchards of their mothers. Robert Strausz-Hupé is such a one. His childhood was a hazy idyl of life in old Vienna, of goose-liver breakfasts on the paternal estate in Hungary. This Eden soon closed its gates, but at 62 he still has a vivid memory of what life was like on the sunny side of the great watershed of World...
...Strausz-Hupé is now director of the University of Pennsylvania's Foreign Policy Research Institute. More scholar than ideologue, he utters no manifestos but offers in comment and anecdote a system of conservative attitudes to shore against the century's ruins...
...Strausz-Hupé came to the U.S. as a tutor-guardian to a no-good Salzburg aristocrat who was older than himself, worked in the art department of Marshall Field's in Chicago (landscapes and jolly monks), as a runner in Wall Street (with social weekends on Long Island), finally as a customer's man and-after a return to Europe-as an investment banker. This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only...
AXIS AMERICA - Robert Strausz-Hupé-Putnam ($2.50). Nazi plans for the U.S. based on published Nazi intentions interpreted by a former Viennese who is an associate editor of Current History, lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania...