Kelly, James R. “Finding a Usable Past, Building a Livable Future.” America 133, no. 13, (1975): 286-87.

Abstract:

[In the following review of Twilight of Authority, Kelly criticizes Nisbet’s book as a simple-minded attack on the pursuit of equality through political means.]

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Certainly, this is a sentiment no longer limited to the poetically sensitive but increasingly common among ordinary men and women. Nor can this confusion of spirit be attributed solely to such specifics as Vietnam, Watergate, inflation and recession, for the cognitive and moral models necessary for reconstructing personal and social…

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