By Warren Zimmerman. Times Books. 256 pp. $35
By James Howard Kunstler. Simon & Schuster. 318 pp. $24
By Jaroslav Pelikan. Yale University Press. 240 pp. $25
By Andrew Gamble. Westview. 221 pp. $51 cloth, $19.95 paper
By Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Houghton Mifflin. 350 pp. $24.95
The “father of scientific management” always looked back fondly on his days as an apprentice in a small manufacturing firm. It was an experience he believed every engineer should have. Ironically, his system of industrial efficiency helped make that impossible.
Essays
During the 1990s, the WQ published a regular poetry feature edited by a series of distinguished poets, who selected and introduced the works of other writers past and present. After the death of our first poetry editor, the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, Anthony Hecht, one of his successors, published this tribute.
Two years ago, the United States was caught up in a furious national debate over the future of its healthcare system. That debate is over, with nothing substantial accomplished, and most Americans probably believe that its passing spelled the end of any significant change in the healthcare system in the immediate future. Today, however, that system is changing right before our eyes.