Important new OXFORD BOOKS
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The Power Elite
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C. WRIGHT MILLS.
The · author of
White Collar
depicts the
style of life of the men and women at the pinnacles of fame, power
and fortune in America today. His particular interest is in
Celebriti es and the Big Rich, Admirals and Generals, Politicians
and the Corporate Rich- groups which he feels coalesce to form
a center of power that is tightly knit and basically irresponsible.
His theories, and his exposition of them, fonn a book that is both
provocative and controversial.
To be published April 19.
$6.00
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Red,
Black, Blond and Olive .
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by
EDMUND WILSON.
The penetrating analysis and lively style
which made
The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
a national best seller
are now applied to the examination of four disparate contemp–
oraneous civilizations. Mr. Wilson writes of the Zuiii. Indians,
whose culture has been virtually static for four centuries, the
Republic of Haiti, where progress is struggling against a tradition
of ignorance and poverty, Soviet Russia as it was just before the
Iron Curtain fell, and the young state of Israel, forced to battle
with internal dissent and external enemies.
$6.75
The Hero in Eclipse
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in Victorian Fiaion
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by
MARIO PRAZ.
A brilliant study which proceeds from an in–
troductory section on the relationship between genre painting and
the novel to a discussion of how Romanticism turned bourgeois in
the writings of Coleridge and Wordsworth, Scott, Lamb, de
Quincey, Peacock and Macaulay. The author then undertakes
a full consideration of the diminishing stature of the hero in
Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and George Eliot.
$11.00
Socialism and the Individual
by
WILLIAM ANGUS SINCLAIR.
A recounting of the author's
conversion from Conservative to Labourite, expressing his views
on the basic problems of social ethics and the political commit–
ments to which thOy give rise. This is a brilliant analysis of an
intelligent man's relation to political parties, and what they
represent within a government and its economic structure. $2.50
At all bookstores
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