Volume 1, Number 12 · February 6, 1964

A Hard Case

By Benjamin DeMott
James Forrestal: A Study of Personality Politics and Policy
by Arnold A. Rogow

Macmillan, 397 pp., $6.95

'We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians,' says Erik Erikson in his magnificent study of Luther; the latter become immersed in 'the very disguises, rationalizations, and idealizations of the historical process from which it should be their business to separate themselves.'



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