THE COURAGE TO BE HAPPY

by Dorothy Thompson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 12, 1957

Dorothy Thompson is in her corner again. Not the embattled Dorothy Thompson whom Dixon Wecter called a ""vigorous and intellectual valkyrie."" In this collection of essays winnowed from monthly selections of the Ladies' Home Journal, we meet the mellow matron absorbed first with her hearth and hobbies and secondarily with would affairs. Of necessity her magazine articles have been of a less timely nature than her newspaper column. Writing primarily for a feminine audience, her musings here range from her debt to artists long dead, to children, to the will to live and the will to die. The substantial section on public affairs is outweighed by her defense of small towns, her denigration of sophistication -- the malaise of our time- and her affirmation of the joy of creativity with its ever attendant effort and pain. Here the valkyrie purrs. A serene anthology from one who usually comes out swinging- for an audience of distaff Dorothy-devotees.

Pub Date: Nov. 12, 1957

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1957

Categories: NONFICTION