Volume 1, Number 11 · January 23, 1964
Pride and Prejudice
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
An Education in Georgia: The Integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
by Calvin Trillin
Viking, 180 pp., $3.95
This book, somewhat expanded from an earlier version that recently appeared in The New Yorker, is the work of one of its staff writers who had spent a year in the South as a reporter for Time. Mr. Trillin is an excellent and conscientious reporter, who observed in detail the sequence of events he reported, and became closely acquainted with the principal figures involved. His writing is clear and incisive, and relieved occasionally by touches of low-keyed irony, which are the only departures from objective description and analysis be permits himself. His approach to the dynamics of exclusion in the University of Georgia is very similar to that Berton Roueché brings to his New Yorker accounts of dramatically loathsome diseases: not ethically neutral, for both authors are clearly opposed to the phenomena they describe, but detached.
Review, 2719 words
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