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Outstanding Books, 1931-1961Review by: Jacques Barzun, Marston Bates, Morris Bishop, Daniel J. Boorstin, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Kay Boyle, Huntington Cairns, Cass Canfield, Marchette Chute, Benjamin DeMott, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Eberhart, Francis Fergusson, William K. Frankena, Northrop Frye, John Gassner, Erwin N. Griswold, Victor Gruen, Henry Guerlac, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Hiram Haydn, Alexander Heard, August Heckscher, Melville J. Herskovits, B. W. Huebsch, H. Stuart Hughes, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Alfred Kazin, Douglas Knight, John Knowles, Eric Larrabee, Harry Levin, Archibald MacLeish, Kenneth Macgowan, Phyllis McGinley, Margaret Mead, Henry Allen Moe, Ashley Montagu, John W. Nason, Howard Nemerov, Roy F. Nichols, Marjorie Nicolson, Whitney J. Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Fairfield Osborn, Harry A. Overstreet, John Herman Randall, Jr., Saunders Redding, Conrad Richter, David Riesman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Wilson Ross, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Gladys Schmitt, Mark Schorer, Paul B. Sears, Harlow Shapley, Francis Steegmuller, Willard Thorp, Irita Van Doren, Gore Vidal, Thornton Wilder, C. Vann Woodward and Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. · The American Scholar · 1961