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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

Revisionism and the Origins of World War II: A Study of A. J. F. Taylor and His Critics

On Youth, Individualism, and Moral Revolution

Mass Society and the Crisis of Public Responsibility

The American Indian and the Classical Past

The Care and Feeding of Modern Art

The Scholar as Prophet: Brownson vs. Emerson and the Modern Need for a Moral Humanism

POETRY

The Restless

Calling

The Gatekeeper

On Finding a Child's Dump Truck on the Road to the Dump

Deluge

Before Winter Fields

Lost

The Wake for My Self

What Praise

Nana

A Funeral

Abstract

TO INAUGURATE our seventeenth year, this October issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY ranges somewhat broadly over the "revisionism" of World War II history, the presentday youth cult, the current crisis in public responsibility, the emergence of the American Indian as a significant cultural influence, the vagaries of modem art, and finally the need for a new moral humanism.

MICHAEL J. CUNNINGHAM, with whose study of the controversial work of A. J. P. Taylor this issue begins, is a young man working on a master's degree in history at the University of Oregon, where he is employed as a teaching assistant in the history department. This is his first published work. He writes that his scholarly interests lie in the fields of 20th century European political and diplomatic history as well as international relations in the postwar period.

IN HIS updated biographical note, SCOTT EDWARDS, who has written for us before (the Winter issue of 1972), tells us that he has been concerned of late about such things as academic governance and academic standards and that these interests have appeared in some of his recent articles. He has published most recently in Change, The Humanist, Liberal Education (two articles), The Journal of General Education, and Humanitas. A professor of political science at California State University, Hayward, he holds the Ph. D. degree from Claremont Graduate School.

A PROFESSOR of political science at Purdue University with a Ph. D. from Case Western Reserve, MICHAEL A. WEINSTEIN writes out of a longstanding interest in the crisis of public responsibility in a mass society. When he wrote to us last November he was on a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974-75) doing research concerned with the problem of maintaining personal freedom in complex organizations. He has published more than thirty articles in political science, philosophy, sociology and law reviews, and is the author of the following books: Identity, Power and Change, Scott, Foresman, 1970; Systematic Political Theory, Charles Merrill, 1971 (Japanese translation, Tokai University Press, 1973); Philosophy, Theory and Method in Contemporary Political Thought, Scott, Foresman, 1971; The Clash of Perspectives (with D. Weinstein), The Dryden Press, 1972; The Roles of Man (with D. Weinstein), The Dryden Press, 1972· The Political Experience, St. Martin's Press, 1972; The Ideologies of Violence (with K. Grundy) , Charles Merrill, 197 4; Living Sociology (with D. Weinstein), David McKay, 1974.

BOTH AUTHORS of our study of the American Indian and his influence on the general culture are American historians associated with the University of New Mexico. MARGARET SZASZ, who took her earlier degrees at the University of Washington and her Ph. D. at Albuquerque, is currently writing fulltime in the field of her specialty, American Indian history. She has published articles m Montana and Integrated Education and a book, Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-Determination, 1928-1974, University of New Mexico Press, 1974. FERENC SZASZ, an associate professor at the University of New Mexico, took his Ph. D. degree at the University of Rochester. His articles have appeared in Mid-America Tennessee Historical Quarterly, The History Teacher, The Historian, Minnesota History, New Yark History, and Building the Organizational Society (Jerry Israel, editor).

OUR expert on the care and feeding of modem art, SYLVIA ANGUS, is an associate professor of English at State University of New York at Potsdam, and she has taught at St. Lawrence University, the University of Arizona, and as far afield as the University of Istanbul, where she was a visiting lecturer. Her publications include three edited short story anthologies for Fawcett, an inter-disciplinary text (The Trouble Is:) for Dickenson, two suspense novels for Macmillan and World, and some forty articles and stories for magazines such as The Saturday Review, Mademoiselle, The Antioch Review, Journal of Higher Education, The Southern Review, Parents, The New England Quarterly, and School and Society, plus travel articles for the New York Times and other journals. In late February her newest novel, a mystery, was being considered for publication, and she was halfway through (doubtless has finished by now) still another but nonmystery novel.

THE AUTHOR of our last article, SAM B. GIRGUS, was director and assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama when we accepted his study of Brownson v. Emerson and the modem need for a moral humanism, but by the time the article appears he will have become a New Mexican, "chairperson" (his own word) of the American Studies Department and associate professor at the University of New Mexico. He has had articles in such journals as American Quarterly, The Centennial Review, Studies in Short Fiction, Arizona Quarterly, and Research Studies. SINCE HER LAST appearance in THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY (October, 1972) , BERNICE AMES has published poems in Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Kansas Quarterly, and Yankee. She lives in Los Angeles. . . . PETER COOLEY teaches in the English Department at Tulane. He has had poems in recent issues of Poetry and the Atlantic. His first book of poems, The Company of Strangers, is forthcoming shortly from the University of Missouri Press. . . . ELAINE V. EMANS has a poem in a recent issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review. Earlier work of hers appeared in Prairie Schooner, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Kansas Quarterly. . . . RUTH FELDMAN lives in Cambridge, Mass., with long sojourns in Italy. Her poems and translations have appeared in The Nation, the New York Times, the Quarterly Review of Literature, and the New Directions Anthology for 1973. . . . NELLIE HILL's poems have been published in Ms. Magazine, The Carleton Miscellany, and The West Coast Poetry Review. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony this year. . . . S. J. MARKS is currently Family and Group Psychotherapist at the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center. He has poems forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, and The American Poetry Review. . . . JUDITH JOHNSON SHERWIN has recently been elected president of The Poetry Society of America. Her latest book of poetry is Impossible Buildings (Doubleday, 1973). Atheneum published her collection of stories, The Life of Riot, also in 1973. . . . KIM STAFFORD lives in Florence, Oregon, where she spends part of her time writing and the rest completing a Ph. D. in medieval literature and collecting local history. . . . NANCY G. WESTERFIELD lives in Kearney, Nebraska. She is a graduate student in religion at Creighton Univerity on a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship.

Our reviewer for this issue is Associate Editor DUDLEY T. CORNISH

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