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by I.F. Stone
Little, Brown, 1988
282 pp. $18.95

by Richard Nelson Current
Oxford, 1988
475 pp. $24.95

by John Keegan
Viking, 1987
368 pp. $18.95

by James M. Buchanan
ompiled by Robert D. Tollison
nd Viktor J. Vanberg
Texas A & M, 1988
13 pp. $48.50

by Chinua Achebe
Doubleday, 1988
216 pp. $16.95

by Brendan Gill
Putnarn's, 1987
544 pp. $24.95

: popular song, jazz, and classical. Here, music critic Howard Husock recalls how Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and dozens of other Tin Pan Alley songsters created a lively style of popular music that appealed to Americans of all ages, only to see the audience fragment after World War 11. Terry Teachout chronicles the long quest of jazz musicians for cultural "respectabil- ity"; he describes some of the surprising effects. And music scholar
K. Robert Schwarz traces the history of the nation's...

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