By Frank Kermode. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 263 pp. $23
By Michael Wood. Princeton Univ. Press. 252 pp. $24.95
By Alain Finkielkraut. Translated by Judith Friedlander. Columbia Univ. Press. 165 pp. $22.95
Edited by Jonathan D. Moreno. TouchstonelSimon & Schuster. 251 pp. $11
By Henry Petroski. Knopf. 479 pp. $30
By Roald Hoffmann. Columbia Univ. Press. 294 pp. $34.95
By Sherry Turkle. Simon & Schuster. 347 pp. $25
Americans have always been of two minds about gamblers and gambling.
The United States has embarked on an unprecedented experiment with legalized gambling.