Volume 21, Number 12 · July 18, 1974
Looking Backward
By Peter Singer
Radical Paradoxes: Dilemmas of the American Left, 1945-1970
by Peter Clecak
Harper & Row, 358 pp., $11.95
Four Reforms: A Guide for the Seventies
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Putnam's, 128 pp., $4.95
American political thought is slowly recovering from the turmoil into which it was thrown by the protest movements of the last decade. Extreme views and hard-line ideological positions which were enthusiastically accepted by many when they were thrown up by the antiwar movement are now being subjected to a more critical scrutiny, and found wanting. That, certainly, is the message of Peter Clecak's measured assessment of the American left since the Second World War; and a similar attitude is implicit in William F. Buckley's concrete approach to political change, and in his claim that his four reforms are relatively free from ideological bias.
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