Winter 1999
Raising the American Child
In Essence
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The Newest Southern Politics" by Earl Black, in The Journal of Politics (Aug. 1998), Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rm. 313 Hamilton Hall, CB #3265, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599–3265.
"Original Unintentions: The Franchise and the Constitution" by Forrest McDonald, in Modern Age (Fall 1998), P.O. Box AB, College Park, Md. 20740.
"Tunnel Vision" by Jonathan Rauch, in National Journal (Sept. 19, 1998), 1501 M St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The Protestant Deformation and American Foreign Policy" by James Kurth, in Orbis (Spring 1998), Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1528 Walnut St., Ste. 610, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102–3684.
"Feminism and the Exclusion of Army Women from Combat" by Laura L. Miller, in Gender Issues (Summer 1998), Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers Univ., 35 Berrue Cir., Piscataway, N.J. 08854–8042.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Airline Deregulation" by John E. Robson, in Regulation (Spring 1998), Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001.
"‘ Flexible’ Workplace Practices: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey" by Maury Gittleman, Michael Horrigan, and Mary Joyce, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (Oct. 1998), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y. 14853–3901.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies" by Paul Freedman and Gabrielle M. Spiegel, in The American Historical Review (June 1998), 914 Atwater, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Ind. 47405.
"Is America an Experiment?" by Wilfred M. McClay, in The Public Interest (Fall 1998), 1112 16th St. N.W., Ste. 530, Washington, D.C. 20036.
"Relatively Disabled" by F. D. Reeve, in Michigan Quarterly Review (Summer 1998), Univ. of Michigan, Rm. 3032, Rackham Bldg., 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109–1070.
"A Liberal in Wolf’s Clothing: Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan in the Light of 1990s Welfare Reform" by Alex Waddan, in Journal of American Studies (Aug. 1998), Cambridge Univ. Press, Journals Dept., 40 W. 20th St., New York, N.Y. 10011–4211.
"Still Going" by Marc Fisher, in American Journalism Review (Oct. 1998), Univ. of Maryland, 1117 Journalism Bldg., College Park, Md. 20742–7111.
"The Poverty of Media Theory" by Keith Windschuttle, in Quadrant (Mar. 1998), P.O. Box 1495, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia.
"Rationality and the ‘Religious Mind’" by Laurence Iannaccone, Rodney Stark, and Roger Finke, in Economic Inquiry (July 1998), Texas A&M Univ., Dept. of Economics, College Station, Texas 77843–4228.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The Revolution That Didn’t Happen" by Steven Weinberg, in The New York Review of Books (Oct. 8, 1998), 1755 Broadway, 5th fl., New York, N.Y. 10019–3780.
"Gardens and the Death of Art" by Stephanie Ross, in Landscape Architecture (July 1998), 636 Eye St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001–3736.
"Josephine Baker and Paul Colin: African American Dance Seen through Parisian Eyes" by Karen C. C. Dalton and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in Critical Inquiry (Summer 1998), Univ. of Chicago, 202 Wieboldt Hall, 1050 E. 59th St., Chicago, Ill. 60637.
"Iris Murdoch and the Net of Theory" by George Watson, in The Hudson Review (Autumn 1998), 684 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Poor but Prosperous" by Akash Kapur, in The Atlantic Monthly (Sept. 1998), 77 N. Washington St., Boston, Mass. 02114.
"Russia’s Taxing Problem" by Daniel Treisman, in Foreign Policy (Fall 1998), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
"The Dictator" by Jon Lee Anderson, in The New Yorker (Oct. 19, 1998), 20 W. 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
Book Reviews
ABOUT FACE: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China,from Nixon to Clinton. By James Mann. Knopf. 420 pp. $30
THE LAST AVANT-GARDE: The Making of the New York School of Poets. By David Lehman. Doubleday. 433 pp. $27.50
By David Michaelis. Knopf.576 pp. $40
By Tim Page. Holt. 362 pp. $30
By Edward Alexander. Indiana Univ.Press. 284 pp. $35
By James H. Billington. TV Books.269 pp. $29.95
By Donald Norman. MIT Press.315 pp. $25
BY Stephen J. Pyne. Viking.199 pp. $24.95
By Mitchell Stephens. Oxford Univ.Press. 259 pp. $27.50
GLOBALIZATION: The Human Consequences. By Zygmunt Bauman. Columbia Univ. Press. 138 pp. $24.50
KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. By Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin. 384 pp. $26
ATHENS: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age. By Christian Meier. Trans. by Robert and Rita Kimber. Metropolitan. 640 pp. $37.50
THURGOOD MARSHALL: American Revolutionary. By Juan Williams. Times Books. 459 pp. $27.50
THE BRITISH MONARCHY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Marilyn Morris. Yale Univ. Press. 229 pp. $28.50
KADDISH. By Leon Wieseltier. Knopf. 588 pp. $27.50
MANIFESTO OF A PASSIONATE MODERATE: Unfashionable Essays. By Susan Haack. Univ. of Chicago Press. 223 pp. $22.50
Essays
A look at the work and legacies of the founders of scientific child rearing.
A challenge to the focus of most child-rearing theories.
Britain's eminent political philosopher on the character and career of one of America's great men of letters.
Despite its economic troubles, populist movements are making Brazil a more pluralistic nation.
An appreciation of the career of Eudora Welty, an essential American writer.
Can too much democracy be a bad thing?
How a small band of anti-Stalinist intellectuals helped win the Cold War.
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Poetry selected and introduced by Anthony Hecht
