TY - JOUR T1 - THe case for modern man. AU - Bean WB Y1 - 1959/10/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100158027 JO - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 672 EP - 673 VL - 104 IS - 4 N2 - Obsession with the shadow of atomic doom too readily narcotizes us. Despair focuses on oblivion, and a whole people retreats into a conservative posture, searching for security. We are afraid. In such a fetid climate of clammy fear it is like a breath of fresh air, dry and clarifying, to read and study a wise book in defence of the liberal position. Such is Charles Frankel's "The Case for Modern Man." In a society whose weather vanes are blown by such prophets of doom as Jacques Maritain, Arnold Toynbee, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Karl Mannheim, it is a rare pleasure to see the scowling climate of opinion, the foreboding cold front of these critics of the liberal view, called in question in a brilliant and scholarly study. The managerial revolution, the increasing power of federal governments, the strife in America, Europe, Africa, and Asia beset us on all sides. Many men SN - 0888-2479 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100158027 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100158027 ER -