Books: Against Intolerance

HISTORY OF BIGOTRY IN THE UNITED STATES — Gusfavus Myers —Random House ($3.50).

When the late Gustavus Myers first conceived this book (in 1925), he may not have thought that his theme would become more topical than the perpetuity of human malevolence. But since World War II began, surges of intolerance have grown so commonplace that the 20th Century, long accustomed to regarding itself as the most civilized age in human history, has been able blandly to disregard the fact that it has become the most savage. Race wars, class wars, the mistreatment of...

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