LOOKING AT AMERICA
AMONG THE AMERICANS, by Rom Landau; Robert Hale, English price 21/-. OM LANDAU’S book is lively, penetrating, egotistic, dogmatic, entertaining, and full of new observations
about America. What does he say about the attitude that can be broadly de scribed as "McCarthyism"? Very interestingly that it has produced two notable reactions-a cynically anti-Ameri-
can attitude among some who would otherwise be normal American liberals and progressives, and among others an even more fadical departure from the American search for happiness through material prosperity, and a turning to a search for help in
idealistic astern philosophies. The first group would not have him say a good word about America; the second provided him with attentive hearers, for Mr. Landau, who had come to America to lecture and teach about Morocco and to champion the cause of Moroccan independence, had much to tell them about the Eastern
outlook.
W.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 14
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151LOOKING AT AMERICA New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 14
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