ABSTRACT
When I spoke to him about Kaufmann’s lecture I asked him whether he’d read The Confidence Man, and he said “of course” with the right amount of bluster, in the tone of a student being quizzed by a teacher. And I never doubted his answer. Despite his picture of his Goddard years in his essay “Sex Camp” (in Make Believe Town) as a brainless bedroom romp, he was a highly disciplined, brilliant student, and the sexual revolution was not hidden away in northern Vermont.
