Coyness—or Caution?

The Crucial Decade: America, 1945-1955, by Eric F. Goldman. 307 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.00

This book has been compared with Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday, that delightful history of the nineteen twenties. This is as just a comparison as one between Booth Tarkington’s Penrod and John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. Mr. Allen is a relaxed and genial chronicler. Mr. Goldman is, in the worst sense of the word, an ideologue; and his book is a barely disguised ideological tract.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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The Crucial Decade: America, 1945-1955, by Eric F. Goldman. 307 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.00

This book has been compared with Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday, that delightful history of the nineteen twenties. This is as just a comparison as one between Booth Tarkington’s Penrod and John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. Mr. Allen is a relaxed and genial chronicler. Mr. Goldman is, in the worst sense of the word, an ideologue; and his book is a barely disguised ideological tract.