Reconstructing America's Moral Order

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In Essence

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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

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.

HOME TOWN. By Tracy Kidder. Random House. 338 pp. $25.95

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

Essays

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.

Witold Rybczynski

A new consensus on values seems to be emerging in America. Francis Fukuyama charts the course of cultural renewal.

Francis Fukuyama

American blockbusters have conquered the world, yet in a strange way the culture of film has become less international than ever before.

Richard Schickel

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.

Jesse Jackson

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