A Survey of Recent Articles
"Membership Has Its Privileges: The Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communist Party Members in Urban China" by Bruce J. Dickson and Maria Rost Rublee, in Comparative Political Studies (Feb. 2000), Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91320.
"Hate Crimes" by René Lemarchand, in Transition (2000: Nos. 81–82), 69 Dunster St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
"The Big Mango Bounces Back" by Joshua Kurlantzick, in World Policy Journal (Spring 2000), World Policy Institute, New School Univ., 65 Fifth Ave., Ste. 413, New York, N.Y. 10003.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
SUBURBAN NATION: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. By Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. North Point Press. 290 pp. $30
WORD COURT: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done. By Barbara Wallraff. Harcourt. 368 pp. $23.
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE(4th ed ). By William Strunk, Jr, and E. B. White. Allyn & Bacon. 105 pp.$14.95 hardcover, $6.95 paper
PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS. By Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis. Univ. of Kansas Press. 278 pp. $34.95
THE PRESIDENTIAL DIFFERENCE: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. By Fred I. Greenstein. Free Press. 282 pp. $25
POWER AND THE PRESIDENCY. Edited by Robert A. Wilson. PublicAffairs. 162 pp. $20
Edited by Richard John Neuhaus. Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 181 pp.$25 cloth, $15 paper
By Allen C. Guelzo. Eerdmans. 516 pp.$29