What I Have Learned

Contents

Contents

1 WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

2A collection of twenty autobiographical essays by great contemporaries from the ‘‘Saturday Review’’

3A SATURDAY REVIEW BOOK

4SIMON AND SCHUSTER

5NEW YORK

6 CONTENTS

Preface by Norman Cousins

7Adventures in Ideas and Learning

87

9i Augustine Cardinal Bea

10Paths to Ecumenism

1113

12n Danilo Dolci

13Tools for a New World

1424

15in Constantin A. Doxiadis

16Learning How to Learn

1736

18iv Ilya Ehrenburg

19A Last Memoir

2047

21v Dwight D. Eisenhower

22What I Have Learned

2357

24vi Richard Buckminster Fuller

25How Little I Know

2671

27vn James M. Gavin

28Military Power: The Limits of Persuasion

29135

30vhi Harry Golden

31How to Live with a Chair You Hate

32151

33ix Eric Hoffer

34A Strategy for the War with Nature

35162

36x Robert Maynard Hutchins

37First Glimpses of a New World

38177

39 xi Horace Meyer Kallen

40 How I Bet My Life 189

41 xn Salvador de Madariaga

42The Dangerous Lure of Panotland 202

43 xm Robert Moses

44Confessions of a Reformed Reformer 218

xiv.
Reinhold Niebuhr

45 Some Things I Have Learned 233

xv.
Alan Paton

46 The Challenge of Fear 250

xvi.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

47 What Man Cannot Know 261

48xvh Sir Herbert Read

49 What Ever Happened to the Great Simplicities? 270 xvm Josef Hans Thirring

50 Can a Scientist Be an Optimist? 283

xix.
Warren Weaver

51 Confessions of a Scientist-Humanist 298

xx.
John F. Wharton

52 Does Anyone Know Reality? 310