The University Bookman

Spring 2012

Contents

Review 1 April 2012

A Thundering Paradox of a Life
a review by Francis P. Sempa

George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis. New York: The Penguin Press. 2011. 784 pp. $40.

Review 8 April 2012

Grounding the Life of the Mind
a review by Matthew A. Rarey

Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America by Daniel J. Flynn. ISI Books (Wilmington, DE), 2011. 187 pp., $28 cloth

Review 15 April 2012

The Sexual Revolution and the Will to Disbelieve
a review by Eve Tushnet

Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution by Mary Eberstadt. Ignatius Press (San Francisco), 2012. 175 pages, $20.

Review 22 April 2012

Poetically Thinking
a review by Micah Mattix

The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner. New Directions, 2012. 224 pages, $25.

Essay 22 April 2012

Adrienne Rich and an Assessment of Contemporary American Poetry
by Eugene Schlanger

Review 29 April 2012

Freedom Complex
a review by Gerald J. Russello

On the Road to Emmaus: The Catholic Dialogue with America and Modernity by Glenn W. Olsen. The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. 303 pp., $70.

Review 1 May 2012

Socratic and Secular Irony
a review by Lee Trepanier

A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear. Harvard University Press, 2011, 210 pages, $30.

Review 6 May 2012

The Kind of Man Modernity Can Afford
a review by Hunter Baker

Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger. Prometheus Books, 2011, 264pp, hardcover, $26.

Review 13 May 2012

Christopher Lasch, Conservative?
a review by Seth J. Bartee

Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch by Eric Miller. Eerdmans, 2010. Cloth, 394 pages, $32.

Review 20 May 2012

Longshoreman, Philosopher, Mystery
a review by Daniel J. Flynn

Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher by Tom Bethell. Hoover Institution Press, 2012. Hardcover, 328 pages, $30.

Essay 27 May 2012

On Statesmanship: The Case of John Adams
by Bruce P. Frohnen

This article is the first of two parts and is based on a talk delivered to a Colloquium on Statesmanship and the Constitution at the Rochester Institute of Technology, April 13–14, 2012.

Essay 28 May 2012

‘The Farther from the Scene of Horror, the Easier the Talk’
by R. J. Stove

Paul Fussell, R.I.P.

Essay 3 June 2012

On Statesmanship: The Case of John Adams
by Bruce P. Frohnen

This article is the second of two parts and is based on a talk delivered to a Colloquium on Statesmanship and the Constitution at the Rochester Institute of Technology, April 13–14, 2012. Part One is here.

Review 6 June 2012

Men with Lit Matches
a review by A. W. R. Hawkins

Fahrenheit 451, The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Ray Bradbury. Simon & Schuster, 2003. 208 pages, hardcover, $23.

On Essays and Letters 10 June 2012

On the Depths of Villainy
by James V. Schall, S.J.

On Essays and Letters

Review 10 June 2012

A Necessary Symbiosis
a review by Samuel Gregg

America’s Spiritual Capital by Nicholas Capaldi and Theodore Roosevelt Malloch St Augustine’s Press (South Bend, Indiana), 2012. Paper, 176 pages, $17.

Review 17 June 2012

Signs of Contradiction
a review by Adam Schwartz

The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature, 1850–2000 by Richard Griffiths. Continuum (London & New York) xii + 260 pp., $35 cloth, 2010.

Review 24 June 2012

For a Thousand Memes to Sing
a review by Richard M. Reinsch II

Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Marilynne Robinson. Yale University Press, 2010. 176 pages, $24.