It is not shared history withpatients, but rather variety and quality of experience that determine how successful psychotherapistscan be.

Moynihan seemed to be in the middle of every major political controversy for 40 years. As a result, this new collection of his letters, memoranda, and diary entries, ably edited and annotated by former New York Times reporter Steven Weisman, illuminates not only Moynihan's thought and character, but the age he lived in.

Robert S. Royal's Bradley Lecture.