The Thirties: Fact and Fantasy

The Thirties: Fact and Fantasy

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Murray Kempton’s book (PART OF OUR TIME, by Murray Kempton. Simon & Schuster. 334 pp. $4.) of portraits from the radical thirties has been reviewed with praise by such writers as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Reinhold Niebuhr and Daniel Bell. It is not hard to guess why. For apart from a pinch or two of iconoclasm, most of it rhetorical, Kempton presents a picture of the thirties that satisfies the needs and expectations of latter-day liberalism.

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