Books
June, 1981
When Americans anointed the touring Pope John Paul II as Father Knows Best for the Eighties, something obviously was up. In Limits: A Search for New Values (Potter), Maxine Schnall claims we were looking for leadership. Our muddled sense of values, a result of the movements of the past three decades, left us thirsting for order. It's tempting to describe this book as Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism for beginners. Schnall continues Lasch's version of the greatest love story ever tol...