Spring 2001
How the World Views America
In Essence
A Survey of Recent Articles
"What Happened to Sex Scandals? Politics and Peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy" by John H. Summers, in The Journal of American History (Dec. 2000), 1215 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomington, Ind. 47401–3703.
"Does Federalism Have a Future?" by Pietro S. Nivola, in The Public Interest (Winter 2001), 1112 16th St., N.W., Ste. 530, Washington, D.C. 20036.
"Come Partly Home, America" by Michael O’Hanlon, in Foreign Affairs (Mar.–Apr. 2001), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"Europe’s Aversion to NMD" by Justin Bernier and Daniel Keohane, in Strategic Review (Winter 2001), United States Strategic Institute, 67 Bay State Rd., Boston, Mass. 02215.
"Does the ‘New Economy’ Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?" by Robert J. Gordon, in Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2000), American Economic Assn., 2014 Broadway, Ste. 305, Nashville, Tenn. 37203–2418.
"The Development of the Neoclassical Tradition in Labor Economics" by George R. Boyer and Robert S. Smith, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (Jan. 2001), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y. 14853–3901.
"The First Bank of the United States and the Securities Market Crash of 1792" by David J. Cowen, in The Journal of Economic History (Dec. 2000), Social Science History Institute, Bldg. 200, Rm. 3, Stanford Univ., Stanford, Calif. 94305–2024.
"Small Towns, Mass Society, and the 21st Century" by James D. Wright, in Society (Nov.–Dec. 2000), Rutgers—The State Univ., 35 Berrue Circle, Piscataway, N.J. 08854.
"Reforming Welfare Reform" by Jared Bernstein and Mark Greenberg, in The American Prospect (Jan. 1–15, 2001), 5 Broad St., Boston, Mass. 02109–2901.
"Were the Perpetrators of Genocide ‘Ordinary Men’ or ‘Real Nazis’? Results from Fifteen Hundred Biographies" by Michael Mann, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Winter 2000), Dept. of Academic Publications, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024–2126.
"Giving It Away" by John Morton, in American Journalism Review (Jan.–Feb. 2001), Univ. of Maryland, 1117 Journalism Bldg., College Park, Md. 20742–7111.
"Think Tanks in the U.S. Media" by Andrew Rich and R. Kent Weaver, in Press/Politics (Fall 2000), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
"Thomistic Natural Law as Darwinian Natural Right" by Larry Arnhart, in Social Philosophy & Policy (Winter 2001), Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, Ohio 43403.
"Eric Hoffer Revisited" by Stephen Miller, in The Republic of Letters (2000: No. 9), www.bu.edu/trl.
"The Intellectual Appeal of the Reformation" by David C. Steinmetz, in Theology Today (Jan. 2001), P.O. Box 29, Princeton, N.J. 08542.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The Shame of Medical Research" by David J. Rothman, in The New York Review of Books (Nov. 30, 2000), 1755 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10019–3780.
"Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep?" by Matt Cartmill, in The Key Reporter (Autumn 2000), Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Fourth Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036.
"A Word for Landscape Architecture" by John Beardsley, in Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 2000), Harvard Univ., Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
"The Real Presence of Christ and the Penitent Mary Magdalen in the Allegory of Faith by Johannes Vermeer" by Valerie Lind Hedquist, in Art History (Sept. 2000), Assn. of Art Historians, 70 Cowcross St., London EC1M 6EJ, U.K.
"The Birth of the Critic: The Literary Friendship of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright" by Lawrence P. Jackson, in American Literature (June 2000), Box 90020, Duke Univ., Durham, N.C. 27708-0020.
"China, the West, and World History in Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China" by Robert Finlay, in Journal of World History (Fall 2000), Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2840 Kolowalu St., Honolulu, Hawaii 96822.
"Vicente Fox and the Rise of the PAN" by David A. Shirk, in Journal of Democracy (Oct. 2000), 1101 15th St., N.W., Ste. 802, Washington, D.C. 20005.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
Book Reviews
DUTY FAITHFULLY PERFORMED: Robert E. Lee and His Critics. By John M. Taylor. Brassey’s. 268 pp. $18.95
THE MAKING OF ROBERT E. LEE. By Michael Fellman. Random House. 360 pp. $29.95
DEEP IN OUR HEARTS: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement. By Constance Curry, Joan C. Browning, Dorothy Dawson Burlage, Penny Patch, Theresa Del Pozzo, Sue Thrasher, Elaine DeLott Baker, Emmie Schrader Adams, and Casey Hayden. Univ. of Georgia Press. 400 pp. $29.95
FREEDOM’S DAUGHTERS: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. By Lynne Olson. Scribner. 460 pp. $30
READING LYRICS. Edited by Rovert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball. Pantheon. 706 pp. $39.50
CARSON MCCULLERS: A Life. By Josyane Savigneau; transl. by Joan E. Howard. Houghton Mifflin. 370 pp. $30
THE VIRGIN OF BENNINGTON. By Kathleen Norris. Riverhead. 240 pp. $24.95
BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness, 1921–1970. By Ray Monk. Free Press. 574 pp. $40
MYTHS IN STONE: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C. By Jeffrey F. Meyer. Univ. of California Press. 343 pp. $35
THE WOMAN I WAS NOT BORN TO BE: A Transsexual Journey. By Aleshia Brevard. Temple Univ. Press. 260 pp. $24.95
TRUE TALES FROM ANOTHER MEXICO: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx. By Sam Quinones. Univ. of New Mexico Press. 336 pp. $29.95
TROUBLEMAKER: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor. By Kathleen Burk. Yale Univ. Press. 491 pp. $35
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA. By Alexis de Tocqueville; transl. by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Univ. of Chicago Press. 722 pp. $35
By Andrew J. Rotter. Cornell Univ. Press. 33 7 pp. $55 hardcover, $19.95 paper
COSMIC EVOLUTION: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. By Eric Chaisson. Harvard Univ. Press. 274 pp. $27.95
WHEN INFORMATION CAME OF AGE: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700–1850. By Daniel J. Headrick. Oxford Univ. Press. 246 pp. $29.95
Essays
The American scholar spoke in a matter-of-fact tone. "Not since Rome," he said, "has a single power...
To the French, the winner of the American presidential election in 2000 was Bill Clinton. Political commentators...
Denial is at the heart of the relationship between the Arab and Muslim worlds and America.
In a recent survey of Chinese attitudes toward America, the respondents--a cross-section of Chinese society--were...
Fifteen years ago, as I was setting off to visit the United States for my first extended stay, a knowledgeable...
Mexico's perceptions of the United States have changed very little during the past five decades. What has undergone a total transformation, however, is the atmosphere in which they are formed. This change reached its culmination with the defeat of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) at the polls on July 2, 2000, and the presidential victory of Vicente Fox....
When Russia began emerging from decades of international isolation and confrontation with the West in the years...
Did the popular belief that the CIA was involved in the Kennedy assassination grow from a seed planted by the Soviet KGB?
Human beings can´t help but ask the big philosophical questions, even if they know that the answers will come up short.
A scholarly effort to tally the human cost of communism around the world has stirred enormous controversy. One of its authors explains why.
Twenty-five years ago, Illinois scientist Carl Woese identified an entirely new form of life. His discovery upended the traditional notion that all living things on Earth fall into five kingdoms andchallenged our understanding of evolution and the origin of life. All he had to do was persuade his fellow scientists.
