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A Survey of Recent Articles
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"The Double Standard Revisited: Plebeian Women and Male Sexual Reputation in Early Modern England" Bernard Capp, in Past & Present (Feb. 1999).
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"Scientists Attack the Federal Budget with the Politics of Calculated Panic" Daniel S. Greenberg, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Mar. 26, 1999), 1255 23rd St., N.W., Washington. D.C. 20037.
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Book Reviews
THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE: Understanding Globalization. By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 394 pp. $22.50
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.
THE POLAR BEAR STRATEGY: Reflections on Risk in Modern Life. By John F. Ross. Perseus. 208 pp. $25
HOME TOWN. By Tracy Kidder. Random House. 338 pp. $25.95
The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports. By James Quirk and Rodney Fort. Princeton Univ. Press. 248 pp. $22.95
MARTIN LUTHER: The Christian between God and Death. By Richard Marius. Harvard Univ. Press. 542 pp. $35.
BUILDING A PROTESTANT LEFT: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993. By Mark Hulsether. Univ. of Tenn. Press. 400 pp. $38
DANGEROUS WATER: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain. By Ron Powers. Basic. 328 pp. $24
TELLER OF TALES: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. By Daniel Stashower. Henry Holt. 412 pp. $32.50
WALKER EVANS. By James R. Mellow. Basic. 654 pp. $40
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 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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Essays
A biographer examines the Serbian Strongman´s career.
Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park and many other public spaces, left an unmistakable imprint on the American landscape. Far less familiar are his distinctive ideas about how to shape the American city--ideas that are more pertinent than ever amid today's rising outcry over urban sprawl.
Kathryn Weathersby details new findings about the Korean War.
A profile of South Korean president Kim Dae Jung.
An assessment of the North Korean nuclear threat.
A critique of the new philosophers of universal progress.
A new consensus on values seems to be emerging in America. Francis Fukuyama charts the course of cultural renewal.
American blockbusters have conquered the world, yet in a strange way the culture of film has become less international than ever before.
The horrors of the war in Sierra Leone have been worse than those in Kosovo, but the cameras were not there to bring it into our living rooms.