Summer 1997
Money and Politics: The Oldest Connection
In Essence
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Revolutionary Men of Letters and the Pursuit of Radical Change: The Views of Burke, Tocqueville, Adams, Madison, and Jefferson" by Susan Dunn, in The William and Mary Quarterly (Oct. 1996), Box 8781, Williamsburg, Va. 23187–8781.
"Finding the Real Center" by Ruy Teixeira, in Dissent (Spring 1997), 521 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1700, New York, N.Y. 10017.
"Capitol Flight" by Jennifer Bradley, in The New Republic (Apr. 7, 1997), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
"The Paradox of Professionalism: Eisenhower, Ridgway, and the Challenge to Civilian Control, 1953–1955" by A. J. Bacevich, in The Journal of Military History (Apr. 1997), Society for Military History, 910 Forbes Rd., Carlisle, Pa. 17013.
"The Selling of American Foreign Policy" by Lawrence F. Kaplan, in The Weekly Standard (Apr. 28, 1997), 1150 17th St. N.W., Ste. 505, Washington, D.C. 20036–4617.
"The Case in Favor of U.S. Nuclear Weapons" by Robert G. Spulak, Jr., in Parameters (Spring 1997), U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa. 17013–5238; "Retired Generals Re-Ignite Debate Over Abolition of Nuclear Weapons" by Craig Cerniello, in Arms Control Today (Nov.–Dec. 1996), 1726 M St. N.W., Ste. 201, Washington, D.C. 20036.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The New Left Takes Over American Unions" by Joel Kotkin, in The American Enterprise (May–June 1997), 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
"Bring Back Keynes" by Robert Skidelsky, in Prospect (May 1997), 4 Bedford Sq., London WC1B 3RA.
"Supermarket Sweep" by David B. Sicilia, in Audacity (Spring 1997), 60 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Weighing the ‘Burden of "Acting White" ’: Are There Race Differences in Attitudes toward Education?" by Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Spring 1997), John Wiley & Sons, 605 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10158.
"Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" by Sheri Berman, in World Politics (Apr. 1997), Bendheim Hall, Princeton, N.J. 08544–1022.
"The Shrinking of Foreign News" by Garrick Utley, in Foreign Affairs (Mar.–Apr. 1997), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"Raising Caen" by William Powers, in The New Republic (May 12, 1997), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
"Trends in Recent American Philosophy" by Alexander Nehamas, in Daedalus (Winter 1997), Norton’s Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
"The Other Face of the Renaissance" by Jaroslav Pelikan, in The Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Apr. 1997), Norton’s Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
"The Kevorkian Epidemic" by Paul R. McHugh, in The American Scholar (Winter 1997), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
"Painting the Town White—and Green" by Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Joseph J. Romm, Hashem Akbari, and Alan C. Lloyd, in Technology Review (Feb.–Mar. 1997), Bldg. W59, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
"Bred in the Bone?" by Alan H. Goodman, in The Sciences (Mar.–Apr. 1997), New York Academy of Sciences, 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"Seeing through Computers" by Sherry Turkle, in The American Prospect (Mar.–Apr. 1997), P.O. Box 383080, Cambridge, Mass. 02238.
"The Crushing Power of Big Publishing" by Mark Crispin Miller, and "Gutenberg Unbound" by Tom Engelhardt, in The Nation (Mar. 17, 1997), 72 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.
"‘It Is Surprising That There Are Any Happy Wives’: The Art Interchange, 1878–1886" by Mary W. Blanchard, in Journal of Women’s History (Fall 1996), Indiana Univ. Press, Journals Division, 601 N. Morton St., Bloomington, Ind. 47404–3797.
"Midnight’s Grandchildren" by Pankaj Mishra, in Prospect (Apr. 1997), 4 Bedford Sq., London WC1B 3RA.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The Catholic Church and Poland’s Return to Europe" by Timothy A. Byrnes, in East European Quarterly (Jan. 1997), Box 29 Regent Hall, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 80309.
"Japan’s Aging Economics" by Milton Ezrati, in Foreign Affairs (May–June 1997), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Book Reviews
WE NOW KNOW: Rethinking Cold War History. By John Lewis Gaddis. Oxford University Press. 425 pp. $30
"ONE HELL OF A GAMBLE": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1 964. By Aleksandr A. Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. W. W. Norton & Company. 420 pp. $27.50
BORGES: A Life. By James Woodall. Basic Books. 333 pp. $30
THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE. By Amotz Zahavi and Avishag Zahavi. Na'ama Ely, trans.Oxford University Press. 320 pp. $25
By Michael Peppiatt. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 384 pp. $30
By Theodore Levin. Indiana University Press. 318 pp. $35
By John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey. Pennsylvania State University Press. 367 pp. $24.95
By James Q. Wilson. Basic Books.134 pp. $18
By H. R. McMaster. Harper Collins.446 pp. $27.50
By Geoffrey Hosking. Harvard University Press. 548 pp. $29.95
Edited by Geza Vermes. Viking Press. 688 pp.$34.95
By Robin D. S. Yates. Ballantine Books. 464 pp. $27.50
By Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press. 156 pp. $45
By William Dunham. John Wiley & Sons. 320 pp. $24.95
By Jacques Roger. Sarah Lucille Bonnefoi, trans. L. Pearce Williams, ed. Cornell University Press. 512 pp. $49.95
Essays
Would Abe Lincoln have raised an eyebrow over Bill Clinton's guest list for the Lincoln bedroom? Probably not. Long ago, "Honest Abe" had his men generously sprinkle "material aid" among voters in New York.
Politics and daily life in Romania since 1989 have been as strange, andat times as sinister, as they were during the 24-year rule of Nicolae Ceausescu. Three recent events—two weddings and a funeral—drew the author into the absurdist drama of postcommunist Romania.
Art history may be mired in theoretical trendiness or academic stodginess, but Leo Steinberg's fiercely original readings of past and present works restore life to the meaning of tradition.
Before his death last year, J. B. Jackson stood virtually unchallenged as the pre-eminent scholar of the American landscape. Here, in one of his final essays, Jackson turned his thoughts to leisure, and found that where we play our games often says as much about us as what we choose to play.
[At Issue]
The poetry of Walter de la Mare selected and introduced by Anthony Hecht
