AMERICA AT MID-CENTURY (357 pp.) André Siegfried Harcourf, Brace ($5.75).
André Siegfried, who in 1927 wrote an elegantly incisive book about the U.S. entitled America Comes of Age, has revised his famous but outmoded theme to match midcentury headlines. With his Gallic zest for the provocative generalization unfettered by footnotes, the sprightly old (80) professor now says that Europe's giant "daughter" is moving away from parental traditions so fast that the old folks may soon have trouble recognizing their offspring as their own.
"Geography has triumphed over history, environment over heredity," says...
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