���� To celebrate The American Scholar's thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country. The editors give a picture of the changing intellectual climate and emphasis from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. The collection illustrates the unusually wide range and diversity of the regular subject matter of The American Scholar. This work is once again brought to public attention a half century later, and this edition includes a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowit.
���� Haydn and Saunders chose essays that were of supreme quality; those included were among the best of several hundred published. They focused on a diversity of subject matter as well as a selection representative of the different interests stressed in the magaine's history. These pieces reflect the prevailing intellectual and cultural currents of fifty years earlier. The American Scholar Reader then, as now, focuses on themes of economics, religion, psychology, social and cultural matters, ecology, and the importance of conservation.
���� Some of the major contributors and essays herein included are: ��he Germans: Unhappy Philosophers in Politics,��Reinhold Niebuhr; ��he Challenge of Our Times,��Harold J. Laski; ��he Problem of the Liberal Arts College,��John Dewey; ��he Retort Circumstantial,��Jacques Barun; ��reud, Religion, and Science,��David Riesman; ��hree American Philosophers,��George Santayana; ��hristian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature,��Edmund Wilson; ��he Pseudo-Conservative Revolt,��Richard Hofstadter; ��he Present Human Condition,��Erich Fromm; ��ur Documentary Culture,��Margaret Mead; and ��quality America's Deferred Commitment,��C. Vann Woodward.
