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DEMOCRACY APII TIlE NOVR
Popular Resislance to Classic American Writers
Henry Nash Smith. The author of the classic Virgin Land has now produced
another seminal work. a major interpretation of American 19th-century
literature. " It is a book that sorts things out and puts them together.
and it does so with wisdom and humanity. and a range of vision rarely
attained these days." - R.W.B. Lewis. The New Republic
204 pp., $13.95
IIIB1TY APII LANGUAGE
Geoffrey Sampson. This provocative study of semantics offers a refreshing
argument in favor of classical liberalism. Distinguished linguist Geoffrey
Sampson boldly attacks the socialism of linguist-philosopher Noam
Chomsky, showing how it inhibits individual creativity.
288 pp. $15.95
BOOKS ARE NOT UFE BUT
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WHAT IS?
Marvin Mudrick. Roger Sale called Marvin Mudrick "The Great Reviewer."
William Pritchard called him " Our Man in Life." B. H. Haggin says that
this. Mudrick's third collection of reviews , is "enlivened by a gift for
language. a powerful mind, slrong feeling . grim wit. and exhuberant
hyperbole which . like that of Dickens. is brilliantly effective and
amusing."
368 pp., $12.95
THE LAST ROMANTIC
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Max
Eastman
William O'Neill. " Well-crafted biography giving new life to a hearty
slice of American experience." -The Los Angeles Times "A judicious blend
of ideas, history. and biography." -Library Journal "Written - very
gracefully . . Rex Stout liked (Eastman) enough to propose that
the 'R' be dropped from 'Marxism.' Thanks to Mr. O'Neill. I like him
almost as much." -The New York Times
339 pp., iIIus., $14.95
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