Books
July, 1969
Alienation of the young, class hatred, failure of the old politics, increasing violence, the pervasive feeling that individual attempts to alter things are futile---take all these things and you have what Arthur Schlesinger mildly titled The Crisis of Confidence (Houghton Mifflin), a valuable attempt to assess and analyze America's present crises and our reaction to their various symptoms. Schlesinger's strong dose of historical perspective can provide the liberal, conservative, hawk, dove, stud...