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social priorities, as the authors look
at the future of the university.
LITERATURE AND LIBERALISM:
Sixty Years of the New Republic.
Edited by Edward Zwick. Introduc–
tion by Irving Howe. New Republic
Book Co., $15.00
Literature and Liberalism is a com–
prehensive selection of sixty years of
writing that have made The New
Republic the lively journal of intel–
lectual discourse that it is.
ESCAPE FROM EVIL, by Ernest
Becker. Free Press, $9.95
Ernest Becker's final work, Escape
From Evil, elaborates on the central
theme of his Pulitizer Prize-winning
The Denial of Death: the shaping
force behind human activity-includ–
ing evil-is the attempt to deny
human mortality and insignificance.
In this book he fully confronts, for the
first time, the fact of evU, and its
meaning for man's destiny. "Abso–
lutely essential to the understanding
of our troubled times ."-Anais Nin
THE BOUNDLESS RESOURCE, by
Wlilard Wirtz. New Republic Book
Co., $7.95
This is a comprehensive examina–
tion of the need for coordinating
education and work . The author, the
former Secretary of Labor and now
president of the National Manpower
Institute, takes a close look at the
tentative and ineffective efforts that
have already been made in this direc–
tion, and significantly he focuses on
"quality of life" factors . Here is a
strategy for change, a proposal for a
cohesive national education Iwork
policy that could lead to a lifetime of
opportunity.
THORNTON WILDER: An Intimate
Portrait, by Richard H. Goldstone.
Saturday Review Press, $11.95
This is the first full-length study of
Thornton Wilder's life and work ,
written by a scholar who has been
both his personal friend and a pro·
fessional associate for more than
thirty years. Richard Goldstone's
portrait captures the successes
along with the insecurities, the bar–
ren stretches, and the disappoint–
ments of Wilder's long career.
ENERGY AND WORLD POLITICS, by
Mason Willrlch. Free Press, $10.00
A penetrating look at the world
energy problems from a political
viewpoint. Energy and World Politics
analyzes the major international
political issues such as national
security, the world economy , and the
global environment that have af–
fected the present situation.
THE NATURE OF HUMAN VALUES,
by Milton Rokeach. Free Press,
$13.95
" For a social psychologist at this
time to entitle a book The Nature of
Human Values is no timid act, for it
stakes high claims in an area of in–
tense scientific controversy. But this
challenging and clarifying work jus–
tifies the title as it develops its impor–
tant thesis ."-Political Science
Quarterly . "It may . . . be the best
counter yet to B. F. Skinner and
others who deny that humans pos–
sess values"-Sociology.
THE HOURS OF CATHERINE OF
CLEVES, introduction and commen–
taries by John Plummer, Curator of
Mediaeval and Renaissance Manu–
scripts, The Pierpont Morgan
Library. George Brazilier Library of
Illuminated Manuscripts, $30.00
"This beautiful little book can
hardly be faulted ."-John Canaday.
"An art masterpiece of singular
innocence and charm . . . .Now ex–
quisitely and faithfully presented ,
this jewel by an unknown Flemish
artist is a curio to be treasured ."
-Saturday Review
Out of print for some time, The
Hours of Catherine of Cleves is now
available again .
ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA, by
Robert Nozick. Basic Books, $12.95.
A powerful defense of individual
rights and the minimal state, this
prize-winning book is a philosophical
challenge to the most widely held
political and social positions of our
age-liberal , socialist, and conser–
vative. Winner of The 1975 National
Book Award in Religion and Phil–
osophy.
