The faces of five decades : selections from fifty years of the New republic, 1914-1964
New republic.
Selections from fifty years of the New republic, 1914-1964
Sincerity in the making : Vachel Lindsay / Equality : the unemployed / Mr. Rockefeller on the stand / Billy Sunday / A little child shall lead them : Henry Ford -- The new manner in modern poetry / Scarlet berries : the elegant woman / Prophet and politician : Woodrow Wilson / The advertising man / When the big four met : Woodrow Wilson / Books and things : H.L. Mencken / Stravinsky / Meditation in E minor : polititcians / H.L. Mencken -- The front porch in Marion: Warren G. Harding / Charles Merz -- Gandhi: an Indian saint / W.W. Pearson -- Calvin the silent: Calvin Coolidge / Edward G. Lowry -- The Creed of an aesthete: George Bernard Shaw / Shaw's comment : Clive Bell / Emile Coue / Duse Now / Wlad of the beets : child labor / Henry Ford / Pablo Picasso / Why they love Borah / Norris, the discouraged : George W. Norris / Crime and publicity : the Loeb-Leopold case / He's a prince! : Edward, prince of Wales -- Our professional patriots / Why I shall vote for La Follette : Robert M. La Follette / Why I shall vote for Davis : John W. Davis / On the Dayton firing line : the Scopes trial / William Jennings Bryan -- Marie of Rumania / Brancusi and Marin / A missionary retires : Walter Damrosch / In Dedham jail : Sacco and Vanzetti / Isadora : Isadora Duncan / The flying fool : Charles A. Lindbergh / Justice Holmes and the liberal mind / Smith of New York : Alfred E. Smith / How is Hoover? : Herbert Hoover / The birth-control raid : policewomen / John Dewey at Seventy / Making Bolshevists at Palm Beach : Society Reporter / A portrait of James Joyce / Thorstein Veblen / The freight-car case : the Scottsboro boys / Red day on Capitol Hill : the hunger marchers / Out of the red with Roosevelt : Franklin D. Roosevelt / Norman Thomas : the enraptured socialist / Wallace of Iowa : Henry A. Wallace / Washington notes : F.D.R. / Ring : Ring Lardner / Russia and world revolution : Russian bureaucrats / Adolf Hitler -- Joe Louis never smiles / Eugene O'Neill / John the giant-killer : John L. Lewis / I have a thing to tell you : fellow passenger / The right people : Dorothy Thompson / They still hate Roosevelt : F.D.R. / The great Durante : Jimmy Durante / Wendell Willkie / Amy Lowell / In memory of Scott Fitzgerald / A significant memory of Freud / Pearl Harbor -- Leonardo Da Disney : Walt Disney / Another open letter / Down under in Harlem / What Maisie knows : Mae West / Buchenwald / Washington notes : Reuther versus G.M. -- The man we remember : Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Growth of a statesman : Henry L. Stimson / Harry Truman on his own now / A generation of trial : the Alger Hiss case / Prime Minister Nehru / MacArthur home for Christmas : Douglas MacArthur / "Two old men" of the senate : McKellar and McCarran / The tragedy of Eisenhower / The "Stevenson spirit" : Adlai Stevenson / Washington wire : Joseph N. Welch / The fanaticism of Joseph McCarthy / Lawrence vindicated : T.E. Lawrence / The little girl in curls : Mary Pickford / On Marilyn Monroe / Kefauver joins the race : Estes Kefauver / George Orwell / Passion and patience : Louis D. Brandeis / The life and death of Thomas Wolfe / The reform of Dr. Pangloss : Voltaire / Dooley Redivivus : Scott McLeod -- Justice Frankfurter at seventy-five / Washington wire : Sherman Adams / Eleanor Roosevelt / Aldous Huxley, romantic pessimist / My fair gentleman : Evelyn Waugh / The life and soul of the party : Graham Greene / Following Mr. K : Nikita Khrushchev / The fact of Mortality : Akira Kurosawa / The new, ideal Harvard man / The world of Lyndon B. Johnson / I'm for Adlai Stevenson / Nixon's world : Richard M. Nixon -- Eisenhower the good / A word of farewell : Richard Wright / Reflections on the Eichmann trial : Adolf Eichmann / An old shocker comes home : Henry Miller / The world of George Kennan / Learned Hand / Ben Shahn on fallout / Robert Frost at eighty-eight / No use talking : James Agee / "The choice, Mr. President ..." : A. Philip Randolph / Romans : the assassination of John F. Kennedy / The modern Mr. Forster : E.M. Forster / Why Mailer wants to be president : Norman Nailer / Everybody's protest play : James Baldwin
Luce, Robert B., editor.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007, writer of added commentary.
Randolph Bourne -- Walter E. Weyl -- Walter Lippmann -- Francis Hackett -- Amy Lowell -- Rebecca West -- Walter E. Weyl -- S.N. Behrman -- Maynard Keynes -- Philip Littell -- Paul Rosenfeld -- Clive Bell -- George Bernard Shaw -- Robert Littell -- Stark Young -- Frances B. Williams -- Robert Littell -- Leo Stein -- John W. Owens -- John W. Owens -- Robert Morss Lovett -- Sidney Howard -- Felix Frankfurter -- Walter Lippmann -- Frank R. Kent -- Charles Merz -- Lewis Mumford -- Deems Taylor -- Bruce Bliven -- Shaemas O'Sheel -- Bruce Bliven -- John Dewey -- Herbert Croly -- Herbert Croly -- Margaret Sanger -- Robert Morss Lovett -- Inez Callaway Robb -- Padraic Colum -- Lewis Mumford -- Edmund Wilson -- John Dos Passos -- John Dos Passos -- Matthew Josephson -- Ferner Nuhn -- T.R.B. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Leon Trotsky -- Jonathan Mitchell -- Lionel Trilling -- Jonathan Mitchell -- Thomas Wolfe -- Heywood Broun -- Marquis Childs -- Otis Ferguson -- William Allen White -- Van Wyck Brooks -- John O'Hara -- Max Eastman -- David Low -- Henry Miller -- Langston Hughes -- Stark Young -- R.H.S. Crossman -- Henry A. Wallace -- William Harlan Hale -- Michael Straight -- Alistair Cooke -- Vincent Sheean -- Harold L. Ickes -- Robert S. Allen -- Irving Brant -- John Steinbeck -- T.R.B. -- Michael Straight -- Robert Graves -- Delmore Schwartz -- Delmore Schwartz -- Michael Straight -- Richard H. Rovere -- Alexander M. Bickel -- Malcolm Cowley -- Mary McCarthy -- Alexander M. Bickel -- T.R.B. -- Donald Meyer -- C.P. Snow -- Malcolm Muggeridge -- Honor Tracy -- T.R.B. -- Stanley Kauffmann -- Christopher Jencks -- Selig S. Harrison -- Gerald W. Johnson -- Joseph C. Harsch -- Irving Howe -- Patrick O'Donovan -- Stanley Kauffmann -- Louis J. Halle -- Francis Biddle -- Frank Getlein -- Adlai E. Stevenson -- John Updike -- Murray Kempton -- Murray Kempton and James Ridgeway -- Gilbert A. Harrison -- Richard Gilman -- L.B.J. isn't J.F.K. : Lyndon B. Johnson / T.R.B. -- Robert Brustein.
edited by Robert B. Luce ; commentary by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The faces of five decades : selections from fifty years of the New republic, 1914-1964
