Japanese readers searching for the elusive honne, or truthful, stories about their government are increasingly turning to tabloid-style newsweeklies.
LOOKING FOR LONGLEAF:
The Fall and Rise of an
American Forest.
By Lawrence S. Earley
Ben Bagdikian is back with another assessment of who controls the news, but at least one critic thinks he has it wrong.
NEW POLITICAL RELIGIONS,
or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism.
By Barry Cooper
Jawaharlal Nehru steered clear of religion in his personal life, but his political life was guided by a deeply held moral sensibility.
"Progress is an illusion," argues one European philosopher. It's a view that "answers to the needs of the heart, not reason."
Getting clocks to keep the same time proved to be a tremendous hurdle to progress in early 20th-century England.
"Virgin" rainforests? It seems people have been tampering with them a lot longer than previously thought.
THE NUREMBERG INTERVIEWS:
An American Psychiatrist’s
Conversations with the
Defendants and Witnesses.
By Leon Goldensohn