The American Enterprise, September 1st, 2000
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man By Albert Jay Nock, 1943
Several years ago a Latin professor of mine pressed me to read an obscure book with a tantalizing title, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. As he had never suggested I read anything that couldn't have been perused by a Roman centurion, I gladly agreed. I didn't read too far, though, before it struck me this book might more happily rest on that centurion's table than on the lap of a modern like me.
Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) speaks from a more brusque, starched-collared world; he is less anxious to please and more eager to get at the truth, ...
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