There are men with more in common than Walter B. Pitkin and William Dudley Pelley. But on the shelf in my childhood home there was always a copy of Pitkin’s “Art of Learning,” from 1932 if I recall.
I think I was always taken with the 1930s and first read the book when I was a teenager. I loved it. I haven’t read a lot of Pitkin, but I became interested …