Volume 5, Number 6 · October 28, 1965
A Good Man is Hard to Find
By Murray Kempton
Lindsay, A Man for Tomorrow
by Daniel E. Batton
Random House, 239 pp., $4.95
John V. Lindsay and the Silk Stocking Story
by Casper Citron
Fleet, 133 pp., $4.50
John V. Lindsay—Less than Meets the Eye
by Noel E. Parmentel Jr.
Esquire
The most useful source of Congressman Lindsay's present manifestation may be none of the above works but rather Professor Trilling's celebrated essay on The Princess Casamassima. For Mr. Lindsay comes to us, now as never before or likely again, as the Young Man from the Provinces. Precision is hardly Mr. Parmentel's concern in his recent article on Lindsay in Esquire; still he seems on the mark when he evokes his subject as 'Scarsdale Galahad.' Mr. Lindsay springs up out of our pavements as that most alien of strangers, the white Episcopalian born here. And his situation is 'as chancy as that of any questing knight of mediaeval romance.'
Review, 1783 words
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