Volume 4, Number 5 · April 8, 1965
The Old New Republic
By Norman Podhoretz
The Face of Five Decades: Selections from Fifty Years of The New Republic
edited by Robert B. Luce
Simon & Schuster, 450 pp., $7.95
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary last year The New Republic put out a special number which was then followed up a few months later with an anthology of selections from its entire history. The special number was poor; the anthology is wonderful. Are any conclusions to be drawn from the contrast? I believe there are, even allowing for the obvious advantage the editor of the anthology (Robert B. Luce) enjoyed over the editors of the special number in having more than 2500 issues of a distinguished magazine to choose from as against whatever talent happened to be currently available.
Review, 1873 words
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