From Spring 1984 Explore This Issue on America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s by Peter Clecak By Sanford Pinsker From the Spring 1984 Issue ← Bringing Back the Bones → Essayists, Obsessions, and Hardcovers (on Art & Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination by Ilan Stavans; Walking Possession: Essays and Reviews, 1968-93 by Ian Hamilton; The Night Is Large: Collected Essays 1938-1995 by Martin Gardner; & No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1996 by George Steiner)