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Article: Essays on faith, reinvention of man.(Books)(On Books)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 29, 1996
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Leslie Fiedler addresses this collection of his more recent essays "to you, whoever you are." The phrase is Walt Whitman's, and like his predecessor poet and noisy mythologizer of the American experience, Mr. Fiedler wants "to talk to everyone," meaning not merely academic peers or, for that matter, elitists of any stripe. He has, of course, been doing that for a long time already, and in this slim volume changes course in a way, speaking as a generalist to specialists in various fields.
Often enough, a fiercely democratic impulse takes him up, up and right over the top. Not that he cares, for in his expansive, fleshly way, he is glad and even impatient to ...