The City on the Hill

A GOOD many well-meaning young American citizens have discovered that trying to be ‘reform’ officeholder in a small community is just as tough as starting out single-handed to clean up Tammany Hall. It takes skill and experience and good hard realism to be a politician. Those same qualities are necessary to any writer who tries to tell the story of such a man. Marian Sims appears to have them. Her Steve Chandler is believable, neither Sir Galahad nor the sinister denizen of smoke-filled rooms. Her town could be WilkesBarre or Jacksonville. This is an interesting attempt to build a novel around a phase of contemporary life — and an amazingly successful one.