Commentary

Click Here to Download the Article The Loneliness of Eric Sevareid, by Clay Jenkinson:

"Sevareid was a somber man. In spite of his enormous talents and all his successes, he seems never to have relaxed into his life. It’s never a breezy business reading Sevareid when he is in his fully serious mode. When Sevareid is really trying to make sense of the world, the war, the problematic rise of America to world power, the tension between America’s immense promise and its actual performance as a great power, at home and in the world, he is not usually so much expressing insight as seeking it through the process of writing."