The Great ideas today 1968
- Chicago William Benton 1968
- 538 p.
- The Great ideas today .
I. Ideas and politics : a symposium. Reassessment / Eugene J. McCarthy -- Politics and dissent / Theodore C. Sorensen -- Political ideas in the United States / Richard H. Rovere -- Intellectuals in American politics / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. II. A symposium on contemporary poetry. The new American poetry / Louis Simpson -- The self as agent / James Dickey -- The vital self and secondary means / Stephen Spender -- A little anthology of contemporary poetry -- The new biology and the shaping of the future / John R. Platt. -- Archaeology / Leonard Cottrell -- Some American images of democracy / John Plamenatz. III. The idea of equality / The editors.