Book Reviews

LAWRENCE: The Uncrowned King of Arabia. By Michael Asher. Overlook Press. 418 pp. $35

SURVIVING LITERARY SUICIDE. By Jeffrey Berman. Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 290 pp. $60 hardcover, $18.95 paper

BRAIN POLICY: How the New Neuroscience Will Change Our Lives and Our Politics. By Richard H. Blank. Georgetown Univ. Press. 208 pp. $60 hardcover, $21.95 paper

 

FOR THE TIME BEING. By Annie DiIIard. Knopf. 205 pp. $22

EVERYDAY STALINISM: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times--Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

By Sheila Fitzpatrick. Univ. of Chicago Press. 288 pp. $27.50

THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE: Understanding Globalization. By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 394 pp. $22.50

THE PASSING OF AN ILLUSION: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century. By Francois Furet. Trans. by Deborah Furet. Univ. of Chicago Press. 596 pp. $35

Illusions die hard, and nowhere harder than among intellectuals. 

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THE WORLD THROUGH A MONOCLE: The New Yorker at Midcentury. By Mary F. Corey. Harvard Univ. Press. 251 pp. $25.95

TIE PITY OF WAR: Explaining World War I. By NiaII Ferguson. Basic. 563 pp. $30

MYTHS OF RICH AND POOR: Why We're Better Off than We Think. By W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm. Basic. 256 pp. $25

Despite the booming economy, declining unemployment, and quiescent inflation, many commentators accentuate the negative.

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