by Michael Walzer
Basic, 1988
260 pp. $19.95
by Herbert Fingarette
Univ. of Calif., 1988
166 pp. $16.95
by Ivar Ekeland
Univ. of Chicago, 1988
146 pp. $19.95
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Delegates to the 1900 G.O.P. National Convention met in Philadelphia to renominate President William McKinley. But who would replace Vice President Garret A. Hobart, who had died in office? When Theodore Roosevelt got the nod, Ohio's Mark Hanna said to McKinley: "Your duty to the country is to live for four years."
NEW YEAR'S 1988
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The presidential primary election season is about to begin. Nearly every Tuesday night during the coming months, TV anchormen will gravely report...
Ceaser and Neil Spitzer
Last September 17, several thousand American politicians and for- eign dignitaries elbowed into Independence Square in Philadelphia to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Addressing the crowd, President Reagan called the constitutional system "the great safeguard of our liberty," and praised the document which "has endured, through times perilous as well as prosperous. .. ."
The celebration no doubt would have p...
IMARY GAME
When Senator Gary Hart (D.-Colo.) bested former vice president Walter Mondale in the New Hampshire Democratic primary almost four years ago, his upset victory dazzled some press and television commen- tators. Declared CBS News correspondent Bob Simon: "Now there are two front-runners."
But the election disturbed many pundits and Democratic politicians; it seemed to demonstrate just how volatile the process of choosing presi- dential nominees had become. Echoing other complaints,...
1984, Schram, a Washington Post reporter, decided to cover the election campaign watching news reports and the candidates' ads on TV. Among other things, Schram con- cluded that the local television news was more influential than the national net- work programs in presidential primary campaigns.
During the weeks prior to the crucial New Hampshire primary, some 432,000 adults living in the Boston TV market (which encompasses southern New Hampshire) watched one of the local hour-long news shows;...
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS
AND THE SEARCH FOR
STRUCTURE
"Such is how I view myself," wrote Levi-Strauss in his autobiog- raphy, Tristes Tropiques (1964), "a traveller, an archaeologist of space, trying in vain to restore the exotic with the help of frag- ments and debris." Like Rousseau two centuries before him, Levi-Strauss insisted upon the virtue of primitive peoples. Yet he went beyond Rousseau. Dissecting the art, myths, and folkways of tradi- tional societies, he sought...
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U.S. contra aid; with White House encouragement, conservative out- fits have raised money for the "freedom fighters," in some cases possibly violating U.S. laws against supplying arms abroad.
Even after nearly eight years, views of the Sandinista regime's fundamental nature vary widely. Some scholars regard it as far more Marxist-Leninist in rhetoric than in practice. Foreign Policy editor Charles William Maynes argues that Managua's Soviet-backed rulers can be "tamed and...
and lobby against
U.S. contra aid; with White House encouragement, conservative out- fits have raised money for the "freedom fighters," in some cases possibly violating U.S. laws against supplying arms abroad.
Even after nearly eight years, views of the Sandinista regime's fundamental nature vary widely. Some scholars regard it as far more Marxist-Leninist in rhetoric than in practice. Foreign Policy editor Charles William Maynes argues that Managua's Soviet-backed rulers can be "tamed...