Volume 23, Number 11 · June 24, 1976
The American Amnesia
By John H. Schaar
Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years
by J. Anthony Lukas
Viking Press, 626 pp., $15.00
The Time of Illusion
by Jonathan Schell
Knopf, 392 pp., $10.00
According to St. Augustine—no better name to invoke when one is discussing political sin—'the seat of mind is in memory.' If Augustine was right, the nation is now mindless, and we shall have to find such comfort as we can in the hope that when mind goes, habit and instinct may still remain, assuring life if not direction.
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