The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

Now in his thirty-ninth year, Lewis Mumford has since his early twenties been an inquiring student of American culture. A sociologist, a critic of architecture, an expert on regional planning, and, happily, a man of letters, Mr. Mumford has written and spoken his beliefs before increasingly respectful audiences.Sticks and Stones, Herman Melville, and The Brown Decades are perhaps the best known of his early volumes.