American Scholar: Winter 1988, Volume 57, No. 1

Winter 1988 issue of The American Scholar, the journal of Phi Beta Kappa. With articles on the challenges facing anthropology, Gibbon's historical imagination, why the world can feed a growing population, the life of Herschel Grynszpan (assassin of Nazi official Ernst vom Rath), the psychology of L. S. Vygotsky, an afternoon with S. Y. Agnon, feminism and its Marxist attack on science, Middle East politics, Lewis Mumford, Italian classical studies, poetry, and more. 160 pages.