Volume 2, Number 7 · May 14, 1964
Bourbon on the Rocks
By Irving Howe
Suicide of the West
by James Burnham
John Day, 312 pp., $5.95
Ambitious in scope, this book seems to promise a major effort; rigid in preconception, it turns out to be as puerile as a Birchite pamphlet. And the wonder of it is that the author is not a backwoods Claghorn, a fundamentalist screamer, a demented candy manufacturer. He is an intellectual. He can quote St. Thomas, he knows what Pareto meant by a 'derivation,' and he has written ably on Kafka.
Review, 1543 words
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