The Fall of Public Man
"A fascinating evocation of changing styles of personal and public expression. . . ."—Robert Lekachman, Saturday Review\ \ \ "Sennett presses social theory and historical experience to his service in developing a provocative thesis: that the public world stage has been usurped by the private psychic scene to the detriment of both individual and society."--Carl Schorske, Princeton University. "Stimulating and challenging."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times.\
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"A fascinating evocation of changing styles of personal and public expression. . . ."—Robert Lekachman, Saturday Review Biography Richard Sennett teaches sociology at the London School of Economics and New York University
\ New York TimesOne of the most stimulating and challenging books to be written in years. . . . A major attempt . . . to re-examine the assumptions and objectives of the 1960s and transcend them without compromising their ideals. One admires the breadth of Professor Sennett's erudition, the reach of his historical imagination. . . . By all means buy this book and read it.— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt\ \ \ \ \ Saturday Review[...] Sennett is at once a historian, sociologist, student of psychoanalytic doctrine . . . and celebrant of city life. . . . Seldom have I read a serious work of social theory that explains as much contemporary experience as Sennett's does.— Robert Lekachman\ \
