Reviews

A literary delight.
*San Francisco Chronicle*

Prejudices is enormously well read and exceptionally well written, as well as unusually handsome to the eye.
*Times Literary Supplement*

This is so rich a book that it ought to lie on important desks for years. There is no political, sociological or economic subject untouched by this stiletto-sharp mind. If you have a friend whose intellect you deeply respect, this is the gift.
*Boston Globe*

A provoking book: sometimes thought-provoking, some times just provoking. Reading it, one converses with Nisbet… However one regards Nisbet’s views, the value of this book is considerable.
*Los Angeles Times*

These ideas are typical of Nisbet at his best: unconventional, playful with ideas yet serious about their consequences, probing beyond the superficial. Radicals, liberals, conservatives, apolitical lovers of the word, take note.
*Newsday*

Robert Nisbet’s new book I thought extremely good—remarkable for its clarity and wit, as perceptive as it is intelligent, a welcome voice of reason in a debate too often given over to pedants and ideologues.
*Lewis H. Lapham*

All of the qualities of mind for which Nisbet is famous are fully displayed in this marvelous book—his philosophical profundity, his mastery of history, his biting wit, his moral outrage, his uncommon sense. Nisbet’s dictionary will inevitably be compared to its Voltairean model, but I myself prefer to think of it as one of the great examples of the American jeremiad. In my library Prejudices will stand between the sermons of Jonathan Edwards and the eruptions of Mark Twain.
*Kenneth S. Lynn*

What a bloody wonderful book! What a perfect idea! And the perfect author! My position is that no future book should ever be written on any of the subjects touched.
*William F. Buckley, Jr.*