Volume 1, Number 12 · February 6, 1964
Uplift
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society
by John W. Gardner
Harper Row, 141 pp., $3.95
The dust-jacket of Mr. Gardner's new book leaves the reviewer with very little more to do. 'John Gardner is the most perceptive living observer of American Society,' Adolph A. Berle asserts. This is an unequivocal statement, dismissing in one breath David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Jules Henry, James Baldwin, and for that matter, Norman Mailer. 'I can think of no recently published book which deserves wider attention for the perception and clarity with which it analyzes today's complexities and the soundness and wisdom with which it prescribes for revitalization,' writes Grayson Kirk. This seems a pity, but Dr. Kirk would surely not have said so unless it were a fact. Presidents of Columbia, to be sure, are not always great readers.
Review, 1556 words
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