Books Published in January 1955

New Books List: 5 titles

  • Exiles and Marriages

    Donald Hall

  • Reason and Existen

    Karl Jaspers

    With the publication of Reason and Existenz, originally delivered as a series of five lectures at the University of Groningen in 1935, one of the most important of Jaspers's philosophic works is made available to the English-speaking world. It concer...

  • The Fifteen Weeks

    Joseph M. Jones

  • Rabbit's Umbrella

    George Plimpton

    "The Rabbit's Umbrella," as large and gay as a circus tent, and with a strange assortment of characters, houses a plot as full of twists and surprises as a troupe of juggling clowns. And as for the rabbit himself, the umbrella-holder, whether at the...

  • Now Is the Time

    Lillian Smith

    This impassioned plea for tolerance, desegregation, and civil rights advocacy was written by one of the South's leading activists and writers. Originally it was published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ...