In All, Modesty

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, by Wendy Shalit (Free Press, 291 PP-, $24)

NO different drummer can keep up with Wendy Shalit. When they drop in their tracks from exhaustion she just gets another one and marches on. She’s been her own woman since becoming a sex-ed dropout in fourth grade, and on through her cantankerous four years at Williams College, where she raised a lone voice against coed bathrooms and compounded her political incorrectness by publishing a polemic against the practice in Commentary that left her conformist classmates reeling in shock.

About the Author

Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, by Wendy Shalit (Free Press, 291 PP-, $24)

NO different drummer can keep up with Wendy Shalit. When they drop in their tracks from exhaustion she just gets another one and marches on. She’s been her own woman since becoming a sex-ed dropout in fourth grade, and on through her cantankerous four years at Williams College, where she raised a lone voice against coed bathrooms and compounded her political incorrectness by publishing a polemic against the practice in Commentary that left her conformist classmates reeling in shock.