 This happenstance would not only lead to a new lease on life for "The Correspondent" but would ultimately provide Hagan with the opportunity to move into television documentary production.While this satisfied his ambitions at the time, he would later look back on "The Correspondent" and its small but influential readership, as described below, as his peak opportunity to positively affect American life.The editorial board of "The Committee of Correspondence Newsletter" - "The Correspondent" shifted gradually over five years of its life but always included as active participants sociologist David Riesman, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, and Rev.