In Essence
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Rating the Presidents: Washington to Clinton" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 1997), 475 Riverside Dr., Ste. 1274, New York, N.Y. 10115–1274; "The Ultimate Approval Rating" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., in The New York Times Magazine (Dec. 15, 1996), 229 W. 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036; "‘ There You Go Again’" by Alvin S. Felzenberg, in Policy Review (Mar.–Apr. 1997), The Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
"New Bedfellows" by Peter Beinart, in The New Republic (Aug. 11 & 18, 1997), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
"The Erosion of American National Interests" by Samuel P. Huntington, in Foreign Affairs (Sept.–Oct. 1997), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"The Myth of Rescue" by William Rubinstein, in Prospect (July 1997), 4 Bedford Sq., London WC1B 3RA; "The Bombing of Auschwitz Revisited: A Critical Analysis" by Richard H. Levy, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Winter 1996), Oxford Univ. Press, 2001 Evans Rd., Cary, N.C. 27513.
"Globalization and Diplomacy: A Practitioner’s Perspective" by Strobe Talbott, in Foreign Policy (Fall 1997), 2400 N St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037–1153.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Scientific Mismanagement" by Phillip Longman, in Audacity (Summer 1997), 60 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.
"Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of ‘Blind’ Auditions on Female Musicians" by Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse, in Working Paper 5903 (Jan. 1997), National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
"Cars and Their Enemies" by James Q. Wilson, in Commentary (July 1997), 165 E. 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
"Replacing the Nursing Home" by Peter Uhlenberg, in The Public Interest (Summer 1997), 1112 16th St. N.W., Ste. 530, Washington, D.C. 20036.
"How Indians Got to Be Red" by Nancy Shoemaker, in The American Historical Review (June 1997), 400 A St. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003.
"Local News: The Biggest Scandal on TV" by Steven D. Stark, in the Washington Monthly (June 1997), 1611 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009; "News Lite" by James McCartney, in American Journalism Review (June 1997), 8701 Adelphi Road, Adelphi, Md. 20783–1716.
"The White House Beat at the Century Mark" by Martha Joynt Kumar, in Press/Politics (Summer 1997), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Jerome and the Sham Christians of Rome" by John Curran, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (Apr. 1997), Robinson College, Cambridge CB3 9AN, UK.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The New Creationism" by Barbara Ehrenreich and Janet McIntosh, in The Nation (June 9, 1997), 72 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.
"Yellowstone: Ecological Malpractice" by Charles E. Kay, in PERC Reports (June 1997), Political Economy Research Center, 502 S. 19th Ave., Ste. 211, Bozeman, Mont. 59718.
"Plundered Memories" by Zaven S. Khachaturian, in The Sciences (July–Aug. 1997), 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries" by H. Bruce Franklin, in American Literature (June 1997), Duke University Press, 905 W. Main St., Ste. 18-B, Durham, N.C. 27701.
"Something to Sing About: America’s Great Lyricists" by Philip Furia, in The American Scholar (Summer 1997), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
"Dostoyevsky Behind a Camera" by Garry Wills, in The Atlantic Monthly (July 1997), 77 N. Washington St., Boston, Mass. 02114; "Decency and Muck" by George Packer, in Dissent (Summer 1997), 521 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1700, New York, N.Y. 10017.
"The Great Firewall of China" by Geremie R. Barmé and Sang Ye, in Wired (June 1997), 520 3rd St., 4th floor, San Francisco, Calif. 94107–1815.
"Rough Times in Russia: Post-Soviet Science Faces a New Crisis" by Dan Vergano, in Science News (May 10, 1997), 1719 N St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
"European Union—A Disaster in the Making" by David Pryce-Jones, in Commentary (June 1997), 165 E. 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
RESEARCH REPORTS: Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
RESEARCH REPORTS: Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
For the past several months, the Woodrow Wilson Center has been engaged in a struggle for survival. Earlier this year, the House of Representatives voted to cut federal support for the Center from the current $5.8 million to $1 million, in effect the amount needed to close down.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
Book Reviews
GOD AND THE AMERICAN WRITER. By Alfred Kazin. Knopf. 288 pp. $25
THE GREAT WALL AND THE EMPTY FORTRESS. By Andrew J.Nathan and Robert S. Ross. Norton. 352 pp. $29.95 THE COMING CONFLICT WITH CHINA. By Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro. Knopf. 245 pp. $23
AMERICA IN BLACK AND WHITE: One Nation, Indivisible. By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. Simon & Schuster. 640 pp. $30
By Damian Thompson. Univ. Press of New England. 392 pp. $26
By Judith Wagner DeCew.Cornell Univ. Press. 208 pp.Cloth $39.95, paper $15.95
By James Salter. Random House.384 pp. $24
By Richard D. Altick. Ohio State Univ.Press. 762 pp. $60
By John D. Donahue. Basic Books.256 pp. $25
By Thomas E. Ricks. Scribner.324 pp. $24
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Edith Grossman, trans. Knopf. 304 pp. $25
By David Herlihy. Edited by Samuel K.Cohn, Jr. 128 pp. Harvard Univ. Press. $27 hardcover, $12 paper
By Jeffrey Herf. Harvard Univ. Press. 560 pp. $29.95
By Percy Wollaston. Lyons & Burford. 131 pp. $20
By Harriet Ritvo. Harvard Univ. Press.304 pages. $29.95
By Terrence W. Deacon. Norton. 527 pp. $29.95
Essays
How corporations, for better and worse, came to dominate American life.
America's uneasy relationship with corporate leaders.
Pundits bemoan the decline of loyalty in America, but the real problem is that Americans feel the tug of too many loyalties. That excess of allegiances makes it harder to forge a unum out of the nation's often bewildering pluribus.
When he journeyed to the northernmost permanent settlement in North America, the last thing our author expected was a mystical experience.
In that eternal city of the imagination, novelist R. K. Narayan’s Malgudi, things began to happen after August 15, 1947:
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Poems by Derek Walcott selected and introduced by Edward Hirsch