Volume 18, Number 4 · March 9, 1972
Victims
By Harry M. Caudill
Children of Crisis: Volume II, Migrants, Sharecroppers and Mountaineers
by Robert Coles
Atlantic-Little, 653 pp., $12.50
Children of Crisis: Volume III, The South Goes North
by Robert Coles
Brown, 687 pp., $12.50
Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist and a man of insight and warm sympathy. These qualifications and ten years of hard and lonely work have enabled him to write a series of books for which the nation will owe him a lasting debt. These books deserve to rank with—and, indeed, transcend—W. A. Cash's The Mind of the South and James Baird Weaver's A Call to Action. The two new volumes and their forerunner, A Study of Courage and Fear, are the definitive work on America's poor and powerless in the twentieth century.
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