by I.F. Stone
Little, Brown, 1988
282 pp. $18.95
by Richard Nelson Current
Oxford, 1988
475 pp. $24.95
by Leonard A. Sagan
Basic, 1987
233 pp. $19.95
by James M. Buchanan
ompiled by Robert D. Tollison
nd Viktor J. Vanberg
Texas A & M, 1988
13 pp. $48.50
by Brendan Gill
Putnarn's, 1987
544 pp. $24.95
by Colin Renfrew
Cambridge, 1988
346 pp. $29.95
by A. Zee
Macrnillan, 1987
322 pp. $25
: 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...