Volume 6, Number 10 · June 9, 1966
A Paradoxical Politician
By David Caute
The Politics of Socialism
by R.H.S. Crossman
Atheneum, 268 pp., $5.95
No intellectual, Malraux has written, exercises so deep a fascination as the one who is also a man of action. Malraux's own career has been the subject of several books; the English playwright, John Arden, has dedicated a play set in late medieval Scotland to Conor Cruise O'Brien; yet Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing and Local Government in the Wilson Cabinet, and one of the leading theoreticians of British socialism, aroused only mild admiration among the young. Why is this so?
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