By James Q. Wilson. Vintage, 1977.
260 pp. $1.95
By Christopher Jencks and David Ries-
man. Univ. of Chicago, 1977. 580 pp.
$7.95
Edited by John H. Barton and
Lawrence D. Weiler. Stanford, 1976.
444 pp. $12.95 (cloth, $18.50)
By Howard Nemerov.
Univ. of Chicago reprint, 1977. 110 pp.
$3.95
Edwin 0.Reischauer
In 1945 Japan lay in ruins, a defeated, helpless pariah among nations-its cities destroyed, its industry at a standstill, its people exhausted, confused, and demoralized. Yet in only one generation the country has risen like the proverbial phoenix to become, next to the colossi of the United States and the Soviet Union, the great- est economic power in the world, with a remarkably free and stable society, an efficiently functioning democratic system of government, and a vibrant...
buffalo hunters who wasted more than they took. But the record shows an abid- ing, if somewhat erratic, public concern for the well-being of the American environment. Since 1970, the country has been en-gaged in an unprecedented effort to clean up its air and water, as the chart indicates. And of late, there has been a revival of the turn-of-the-century notion that natural resources are not limitless. Here, conservationist J. Clarence Davies I11 sketches the historical antecedents of the present...