On Christopher Lasch.(RECONSIDERATION)(Biography)

From: Modern Age | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

HAD NATURE TAKEN a more typical course, Christopher Lasch would still be with us. Only sixty-one years old when on Valentine's Day, 1994, he succumbed to cancer in his Pittsford, New York, home, Lasch died while still in his intellectual prime. The book for which he may be remembered longest, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, had appeared just three years earlier. And he had just finished, with the aid of his daughter Elisabeth, the manuscript of The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, a book in which he attempted to bring into focus the problems ...

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