He is the pupil. The United States citizens whose skin is dark are his teachers and their leaders are his special lecturers. Mr. Warren has learned a lot. Let those among us who are miraculously without sin in those brutally bigoted fields be allowed stones to cast at him for that. The great majority in the huge readership this superbly candid book deserves will be glad to share his enlightenment.
Individualism always stands out.
What James Baldwin tells Mr. Warren in his magnificent teach-out cannot wholly agree with what he hears from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Or from the young in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality and the other organizations whose members risk their lives to validate truths declared self-evident in our Declaration of Independence. By any measure, it is one of the year's outstanding books. It is a mystery story. It is a fugue.