December 1956 Issue, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

- Letters, pp. 4-11
- The Editor's Easy Chair
  John Fischer
  , pp. 12-22
  God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Ladies, and Pests
- Personal & Otherwise, pp. 23-26
  The Philosopher of Action
- The New Super-Highways
  Robert Moses
  , pp. 27-31
  Blessing or Blight
- The Girl from Sewickley, Pa.
  Milton Mayer
  , pp. 32-33
- A Wooden Darning Egg
  John Updike
  , p. 34
- Who Really Runs the Senate, Part I
  William S. White
  , pp. 35-40
- A Lesson in Discipline
  Teresa Foley
  , pp. 41-44
- What Happens to the Talent?
  Martin Mayer
  , pp. 45-52
  Television's Lords of Creation, Part II
- France's First Discount House
  E. Ernest Goldstein
  , pp. 53-56
- Woodrow Wilson Among His Friends
  Raymond B. Fosdick
  , pp. 57-61
- Scrolls
  Anne Goodwin Winslow
  , pp. 62-63
- Two Graves in Oklahoma
  Angie Debo
  , pp. 64-65
- White Sowing
  Frances Frost
  , p. 66
- Trujillo
  German E. Ornes and John McCarten
  , pp. 67-72
  Little Caesar on Our Own Front Porch
- An Experiment in Reading
  Gilbert W. Chapman
  , pp. 73-77
- After Hours
  "Mr. Harper"
  , pp. 78-83
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  The New Books (10 Reviews)
  Paul Pickrel
  , pp. 84-101
  The Ambiguities of Success
  1. Trial Balance: The Education of an American by Alan Valentine
  2. My Forty Years with Ford by Charles E. Sorensen and Samuel T. Williamson
  3. Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law by Alpheus Thomas Mason
  4. Much Ado About Me by Fred Allen
  5. The Happy Life of a Doctor by Roger Irving Lee
  6. Over My Shoulder by Clarence B. Randall
  7. The Art of Success by The Editors of Fortune
  8. Work and Its Discontents by Daniel Bell
  9. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
  10. The New World by Winston S. Churchill
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  Books in Brief (15 Reviews)
  Katherine Gauss Jackson
  , pp. 102-107
  These Thousand Hills, by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
  1. These Thousand Hills by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
  2. The Face of a Hero by Pierre Boulle
  3. The Year of My Rebirth by Jesse Stuart
  4. The Letters of Thomas Wolfe by Elizabeth Nowell and Thomas Wolfe
  5. Women and Children First by Cady Hewes
  6. The Complete Book of Absolutely Perfect Housekeeping by Elinor Goulding Smith
  7. Women Are Wonderful! by William Cole and Florette Robinson
  8. Europa Minor, Travels in Coastal Turkey by Lord Kinross
  9. Autumn Across America by Edwin Way Teale
  10. A Treasury of Vermont Life by Stephen Greene, Arthur Peach, Ralph N. Hill, and Walter Hard, Jr., ...
  11. Before Barbed Wire by Mark H. Brown and W.R. Felton
  12. The Heart of Jazz by William L. Grossman and Jack W. Farrell
  13. Eddie Condon's Treasury of Jazz by Eddie Condon and Richard Gehman
  14. The Real Jazz, Old and New by Stephen Longstreet
  15. The Story of Jazz by Marshall W. Stearns
- The New Recordings
  Edward Tatnall Canby
  , pp. 108-114
- Cover
  Tomi Ungerer