SOURCE: A review of Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, in Thought, Vol. XVI, No. 63, December, 1941, pp. 765-66.

In the following review, McGowan comments on Broun's perspicacity and spirituality.

Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, in general terms, may be called a diary: his diary and a diary of public events interesting to a columnist. The autobiographical throb beats strongly in every one of the essay-like sections. Small effort and one can hear Broun telling what he has to say, see him changing under various moods. What he had to say may not be too profound; yet as a member of the human race (though always a troubadour in spirit), Broun was dead in earnest living the character of a man. A ring of eyes ran around his head: he saw everything far and near, artists, authors, collegemen, sports, politicians, laborers, judges, leaders of nations, family life and especially life...