![]() ![]() In one way, this is an adventure story, sustained by that continuing interplay of driving energy, bold personality, outlandish occasion and recurringĪccident that supplies the momentum for the picaresque novel. In ''The Discoverers'' he takes his longest, widest look at ''man's search to know his world and himself.'' As the title suggests, the book is built on the record of many individuals as they made their wayīy faith, will, chance, grim determination or careful planning into some unknown territory. He is equally at home with the pungentīrief reflection and the instructive grand survey. The understanding of the American experience, he has revealed the capacity to assemble great caches of evidence and work them into large-scale structures of well-ordered, fast moving, vivid narration. And throughout his later writing, much of it devoted to enlarging Of Congress, has demonstrated his ability to bring familiar information into fresh combinations and, from his new arrangements, to draw out unexpected and suggestive findings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rom his first book, ''The Mysterious Science of the Law,'' written more than 40 years ago, Daniel J. NovemFrom Experience to Experiment By ELTING E. ![]()
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