The Machine in the Garden
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
By
Leo
Marx.
For generations Americans have tried to reconcile two
conflicting images of their country: a simple, rural paradise opposed
to
an
urban industrial complex. "When literary and cultural criticism can
be
as historically sound as this is and at the same time illuminate a
central issue in the national character, it is something rather special."
-ROBERT E. SPILLER.
"It
is a stunning job and I suspect it
will
make
a pennanent niche for itself."-RoBERT
L.
HEILBRONER
$6.75
World Communism
The Disintegration of a Secular Faith
By
Richard Lowenthal.
The great schism that is cracking the Com–
munist movement into hostile fragments had origins that most Western
observers failed to evaluate properly. By retracing its stages, Richard
Lowenthal makes the disintegration of world communism historically
understandable. "The book will provide a most valuable review and
perceptive analysis of an important phase in the history of international
communism."-ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
$6.00
Ezra Pound, Poet as Sculptor
By
Donald Davie.
This critical study of a "difficult" poet takes a
cluonological approach to his work, his translations being considered no
less important than his original poems.
It
breaks new ground in com–
paring Pound's treatment of certain sources with their originals. "It has
Davie's virtues, which are great . . . obviously an important book."
-FRANK KERMODE
$6.00
The Burden of Guilt
A
Short History of Germany, 1914-1945
By
Hannah Vogt.
This short history of Germany from Kaiser Wilhelm
II to Hitler, written for the postwar generation of Germans, effectively
punctures the myths on which previous generations had been raised.
"This
is
the finest, simplest, fairest account of the last thirty years in
Germany which I have ever read."-EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. "Remark–
able for its emphases and for the candor with which it reports the facts.
. . . well organi:red and precise."
J.
P. BAUKE,
N.Y. Times Book Review.
122 half-tones.
3
maps.
$6.00
Oxford
University Press
/
New
York
