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More March Titles: Sidney Hook’s Marxism and Beyond (Rowman & Littlefield/Littlefield, Adams, $19.95) is a collection of essays and book reviews on the subject of the naïveté of Marx and his intellectual and political followers, and on socialist economists like Harrington, Galbraith, and Heilbroner; it concludes with “In Defense of the Cold War,” in which Hook argues for containment and a strong nuclear deterrent, and “A Critique of Conservatism,” in which he defends the welfare state against attacks from the New Right.

A Stroll with William James (Harper & Row, $16.50), by Jacques Barzun, argues that pragmatism is not of itself a philosophy but an explanation of how an individual mind arrives at a notion of truth. The period 1890-1914, Barzun believes, saw “the reign of the brothers William and Henry” in Western thought. (An excerpt appeared in the February 4 issue of NR.)

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More March Titles: Sidney Hook’s Marxism and Beyond (Rowman & Littlefield/Littlefield, Adams, $19.95) is a collection of essays and book reviews on the subject of the naïveté of Marx and his intellectual and political followers, and on socialist economists like Harrington, Galbraith, and Heilbroner; it concludes with “In Defense of the Cold War,” in which Hook argues for containment and a strong nuclear deterrent, and “A Critique of Conservatism,” in which he defends the welfare state against attacks from the New Right.

A Stroll with William James (Harper & Row, $16.50), by Jacques Barzun, argues that pragmatism is not of itself a philosophy but an explanation of how an individual mind arrives at a notion of truth. The period 1890-1914, Barzun believes, saw “the reign of the brothers William and Henry” in Western thought. (An excerpt appeared in the February 4 issue of NR.)