Volume 24, Number 6 · April 14, 1977
The Rise of Private Man
By Sheldon S. Wolin
The Fall of Public Man
by Richard Sennett
Knopf, 373 pp., $15.00
Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man is an original and courageous book; it is, also, a troubling book: shoddy in its execution, arbitrary in its methods. Practically every reviewer, including those who have praised it highly, has remarked upon its insensitivity to the ordinary conventions of grammar and literary craftsmanship, its repetitiousness, and near incomprehensibleness.
Review, 4304 words
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