The Economist (US), July 11th, 1992
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH: AN AMERICAN LIFE. By Scott Donaldson. Houghton Mifflin; 622 pages; $35
THIS year marks the centenary of the birth of Archibald MacLeish, one of the most unusual figures in 20th-century American letters and a man who prospered at both poetry and public service. As this massive biography documents, nothing seemed impossible to him: he played football like a demon while at Yale; he was brilliant in debate; he practised law with panache after graduating from Harvard Law School; he wrote some of the finest lyric poetry of the century and he transformed the Library of Congress...
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