Political Booknotes

...With the same inflection a parent might employ when musing over “these kids today,” Whitehead invokes a conservative nostalgia as she contrasts the good old days with the current ones...

...Happily, this also means that she writes without jargon...

...a Nomad generation is born during an Awakening, “a passionate era of spiritual unheaval...

...But Whitehead waits until the second-to-last chapter of the book, ominously entitled “Coming Apart,” to spring her most outrageous claim...

...The rhythms of history do not reveal the outcome of the coming Crisis...

...That book, another St...

...This, I assume, is the reason St...

...At this point Whitehead throws the well-paced logic she had established to the wind...

...Hey, call me a flower child, but that doesn’t sound so bad to me...

...But in spite of the detached language in which she states it, Whitehead’s basic thesis is hard to dispute...

...In Will, G. Gordon Liddy quite usefully reminds us of the number and the magnitude of these crimes, even as he seems still to revel, perversely, in their villainy...

...As Nixon himself said of the crowds that came to hear him: “They’re here because they want to hear what I have to say, but they’re [also] here because they say, ‘What makes this guy tick...

...Gone is the convoluted attempt to square Silent Coup with Liddy’s own account of the Watergate burglary...

...I suppose all this can be expected from a writer whose 1993 Atlantic Monthly article on divorce, the spawningground of The Divorce Culture, was called “Dan Quayle Was Right...

...More than somewhat foolhardy, the effort is not likely to produce accurate or conclusive results Undaunted by the risks, however, the authors of Kremlin Capitalimn: Privatizing the Russian Economy have actually managed to draw a convincing and eminently readable portrait of the process by which Boris Yeltsin's government shifted ownership of some productive state assets to private hands...

...That mindset has prevented privatization from going as far as its architects intended, and many enterprises still think of themselves as appendages of the state...

...One by one, however, these expedients have been exhausted, and the day of reckoning draws closer...

...It had to be created, with Marshall Plan aid for the warravaged economies of Europe, and with special Pentagon funds to rebuild Japan's industrial base once the Korean War began...

...This grand strategy created the modern world and the global economy we know today...

...Whitehead’s basic argument is both unsurprising and, in light of the increasing frequency of divorce, distressing...

...One is that they won the cold war-although one does not have to be an unalloyed admirer of Mikhail Gorbachev to suggest that they may so claim rather as the rooster may purport to be responsible for the rising of the sun...

...Or maybe it has simply forgiven them...

...But there can be no mistaking the meaning in her conclusion, which modern politicians ought to be required to memorize before they start blathering about the glories of free markets and how governments are the problem...

...But it is true, and they have to know sometime: America's cold war success depended on the readiness of even Republicans to spend large amounts of taxpayer money on foreign aid...

...With the global struggle concluded, Americans confront issues they have always dodged...

...The operation was largely successful, they conclude, but the patient-the Russian economy-still needs intensive care...

...Willreminds us that as general counsel to the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), Liddy dreamed up a voluminous and intricate set of illegal “dirty tricks”-only some of which were actually implemented...

...The heart of their theory is that all of human history occurs in recurring, approximately 80-year periods, or saecula, that correspond to a human life span...

...In the face of a changing global economy, bewildering cultural influences, and shifting family structures and gender roles, it seems that the only comfort is an explanation-any explanationthat somehow offers a reason for, or at least a narrative of, a seemingly chaotic world...

...ALFRED FRIENDLY JR., a former Moscow correspondent for Newsweek, is co-author with Murray Feshvach of Ecocide in the USSR...

...The recently released Nixon tapes that disclosed a variant of this plan, involving Jesse Jackson, wouldn’t have seemed like such news if we hadn’t let our hardback copies of Will get dusty...

...Millenium Madness by Paticia Cohen Three years to go before the turn of the century and the Millennium industry is already in full swing...

...The assumption being, one supposes, that a boyfriend or girlfriend, live-in partner, or step-parent would only grudgingly provide support and advice...

...Newsweek has started a weekly millennium column...

...Trained to value collective security and to mistrust individual enterprise, Russians over the age of 35 tend to be wary of innovation and risk...

...Joseph Stalin rescued Americans fifty years ago...

...The hoopla that greeted the post-resignation Nixon whenever he published a new book, visited the White House, or stopped at a Burger King marked not, I believe, an exculpatory embrace of the former president, but simply a continuing fascination with him...

...we have declared a Watergate truce...

...the president mentioned the word in his State of the Union speech 17 times...

...As told in a jargon-free, punchy, straightforward fashion by Joseph R. Blasi and two Rutgers University colleagues with whom he monitored the 1991-1995 progress of converting nearly 18,000 large and midsize Russian companies from givernment to shareholder control, privatization represents only one early and farfrom-compete step toward economic health...

...Now they are hawking a comprehensive philosophy of everythingthe past, the future, biology, psychology, technology, art, music, movies, baseball heroes, even magazine titles...

...PATRICIA COHEN is the Political and Lifestyle Editor for The Washington Post style section...

...Married parents, she contends, are also better able to nurture children, establish parent-child bonds, and “recruit other sources of social and emotional capital...

...When, after the failed June 17 break-in, Liddy volunteers to John Dean to have himself killed, we wonder which scenario is crazier: if Liddy is trying to impress the weak-stomached Dean with his bravado, or if he really means it...

...Then, about 70 meticulous and repetitive pages later, Whitehead suddenly veers into bizarre territory...

...How else to explain, for example, Richard Nixon’s funeral three years ago, at which pundits...

...Martin’s Press has reissued Gordon Lid dy ’s 19 8 0 autobiography, Will...

...But the present is grim and the future is distant...

...Around the year ZOOS, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood...

...The re-acceptance of these felons and rogues, we’re frequently told, must mean the public has a short memory...

...Of course, the publishing world isn’t about to be left out...

...Whitehead adheres to a traditional reverence for the nuclear family...

...GARNET entailed staging phony left-wing demonstrations in order to alienate mainstream voters (one plan-to have hippies publicly urinate on the carpet of Georger McGovern’s hotel suitewas scotched when CREEP boss John Mitchell learned he’d soon be moving into the very suite himself...

...Among the unintended consequences of redistributing control from Moscow ministries to local shareholders has been a new, different sort of stasis...

...One other point deserves mention...

...Can we rescue ourselves now...

...Another is that they somehow also defeated a soft but pernicious proto-communism at home in the form of a bureaucratized welfare state-even though the government's share of GDP in both Britain and the United States was the same when they left office as it had been when they entered upon it...

...And her familiarity with British sources considerably illuminates her account of the Sterling crises of the 1960s and their impact on the global economy...

...Even if its central claim about the break-in were true, Watergate was not, as everyone now knows, simply a botched breakin...

...and to try to bring into sensible harness policies aimed simultaneously at both the national security and the national prosperity...

...Here is Liddy’s earliest memory: “Lying on the floor as my paternal grandmother lashed me with a leather harness, shouting, ‘Bad...

...But the West (meaning the tripartite system of Japan, North America and western Europe) did not just grow...

...Certainly mothers need to keep an eye on anyone who’s playing father to their children-particularly when it’s a man they’ve just met...

...She is inflexible in her criticism of the postnuclear arrangement, a.k.a., the “Love Family...

...She warns that “a growing number of single and cohabiting mothers and fathers bring lovers into the children’s households...

...What about the genocide of Native Americans...

...The nation could be ruined, its democracy destoyed, and millions of people scattered or killed...

...How We Won the War By Martin Walker THERE ARE SEVERAL MIRACLES which the devout associate with the years of the blessed Ronald Reagan and the saintly Margaret Thatcher...

...It is only fitting that this person: ality, warped at such an early age, would converge with the grotesquerie of Watergate...

...The book hit The Boston Globe’s and Ingram’s best seller lists and carries blurbs on the backcover from Newt Gingrich and Al Gore praising the authors’ previous publication...

...Not only are roughly 6,000 big enterprises involved in energy, transport, communications, and defense production still state property, but more than two out of every three employed Russians are on government, not private, payrolls-many of them teachers,doctors,and nurses rather than blue-collar workers...

...Whitehead lays out an interesting account of the evolution of divorce from cultural taboo to an ethos of creative individualism...

...Of course Howe and Strauss wouldn’t dream of claiming to predict the actual form this cataclsym will take...

...Diane Kunz has written an accomplshed history of how the grand strategy of the cold War, as an economic even more than a diplomatic and ideological tussle, was devised-and how brilliantly it worked...

...This mixed economy rested on high taxation, heavy government spending, generous pensions, and strong labor unios, all of which were cardinal features of that era when the United States bestrode the global economy like a colossus...

...With chilling sangfroid and mephistophelean delight, Liddy details the Nixon administration’s shockingly criminal plans, both consummated (the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office) and not (the loose but serious talk of having the columnist Jack Anderson assassinated...

...But while in the popular Generations Howe and Strauss offered intersting observations of generational characteristics, in The Fourth Turning their ambition falls short of their ability...

...Liddv commands a wide listenershin and if Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh can top the best-seller charts, why not the G-Man...

...I think I have picked my way past the bestial metaphors to know what she means when she concludes: “By making the Bretton Woods regime an American poodle, the Soviet decision also allowed the United States to guide a unilateral wolf in multilateral sheep’s clothing...

...Besides, who’s to say sex has to be either “sedate” or “overheated...

...That is that from the grim lessons of the Great Depression, and from the happier ones in organizing total war in the 1940s, when a generation of American and British policy-makers concluded that capitalism was far too important to be left to the capitalists...

...Of the 75 percent of the firms “in need of radical and far-reaching restructuring,” Professor Blasi and his co-authors say, “at least a quarter-should be bankrupt!’ Was privatization, then, the wrong remedy at the wrong time...

...And these are just the episodes we remember...

...Still The Divorce Culture does offer a few nuggets...

...Most people, though, myself included, reject Silent Coup as spurious or unpersuasive, and Liddy’s 1991 postscript adds no further reason to believe that book‘s claims...

...Politial and economic trust will implode...

...Political Booknotes Divorced from Reality by Corinna Vallianatos THE IRONY OF READING BARBARA Dafoe Whitehead’s The Divorce Culture as a young, unwed woman is not lost on me: The book is a warning label on a medicine bottle, a neon “Mr...

...Believing their jobs to be at stake, they opted for the devil they knew...

...Reading Will should chasten the petty scribes who today scream scandal over every piddling political flap that rears its head...

...And all of this happens, incidentally, by the just second page...

...and politicians hailed the disgraced president’s return to respectability...

...Through the middle of 1996, indeed, inefficient companies managed to keep their doors open with loans at negative interest in times of high inflation, with direct subsidies as monetary policy stabilized and, most recently, by refusing to pay taxes...

...The reason is simple: Most of those managers are not new...

...Martin’s reissued Will once before, six years ago, with a postscript in which Liddy endorsed the 1991 book Silent Coup...

...In The Fourth Erning, William Strauss and Neil Howe, authors of the 1991 book Generations, are trying to inherit the megatrend mantle...

...For the present, Kremlin Capitalism’s authors are right to urge a massive training program for “thousands of young Russians in the skills of restructuring, turnaround management, and bankruptcy workouts...

...The Divorce Culture starts out reasonably enough, lulling the reader into complacency, if not acquiescence, with its drone of no-nonsense studies, statistics, and aptly-stated admonitions...

...The result is sad, but it might have been predicted by students of Soviet psychology...

...The next Fourth Turning will either end in apocalypse or glory...

...But for married women, or women who are divorced, reading the book must be less like a warning slap on the wrist and more like a slug in the nose...

...The overwrought millennial fascination is perhaps most conspicuous in the long-standing prophetic religious tradition which sees the century’s turn as ushering in biblical visions of apocalypse...

...The reason for this, according to Whitehead, is that families with two parents enjoy an economic advantage, and can pull from the resources and wisdom of two adults rather than one...

...The national security state was not the most efficient way of injecting this continuing fiscal boost but it was the only way acceptable to the American public...

...ATTEMPTING TO MEASURE THE pace and the progress of economic reform in Russia is a little like trying to weigh a rhinoceros on the run...

...A Prophet generation is born during a High, an “upbeat era of strengthening institutions and weakening individualism...

...Love alone dictates the arrangements and content of family life...

...Ron Ziegler, we’re regularly reminded, went from Nixonian mouthpiece to CEO of the National Association of Chain Drugstores...

...And although there has been an enormous rise in the number of small businesses-from zero in 1990 to almost 800,000 at the end of 1995-entrepreneurial energy and attitudes have not infected many new corporate managers...

...Through most of the book the only thing that’s jarring is Whitehead’s cool and clinical tone...

...It’s the thinking man’s Psychic Friends Network...

...Like the Oracle of Delphi, they offer a prophecy that is as useless as it is portentious...

...How does a father handle the intimate tasks of bathing, diapering, and toileting small children in a setting unsupervised and unregulated by the mother...

...Moreover, the success of the Marshall Plan produced an economic strength in depth, and reserves of democratic political support, which transformed the once socialist-inclined working classes of Europe into bastions of anti-communist sentiment...

...This had several implications which led the Western governments of the cold war period, from Washington to London, from Tokyo to Bonn, to develop a family of bodies politic that could all shelter more or less comfortably under the label of social democracies...

...While nuclear family ideology affirmed love as the foundation of intimate partnership, it anchored that commitment within the institution of marriage...

...I wish she had said so...

...an Artist generation is born during a Crisis, “a decisive era of secular upheaval” when the old civic order is brushed away...

...Witness the growing cadres who swear they’ve been abducted by aliens or have glimpsed the U.N.’s secret fleet of black helicopters poised over Montana...

...Only someone who could weigh a running rhinoceros could predict how soon Russia will make itselfa truly free market, much less a prospering society...

...bureau chief of Britain's The Guardian, author of The Cold War: A History, and, most recently, of The President We Deserve: Bill Clinton's rise, falls and comebacks...

...Either they handed their power over to their familiar bosses right away so that hypothetical outsiders would not shake things up, or when outsiders did appear, the rank- and-file usually closed ranks around the status quo...

...Satzlrday Night Live memorably satirized the scene with an ersatz Liddy barbecuing his sauce-slathered hand over a grill, then biting into it...

...DAVID GREENBERG, former Acting Editor of The New Republic, is a Richard Hofstander Fellow in American History at Columbia University and an editor of the online magazine Slate...

...Diane Kunz has made a sound start on the necessary exorcism...

...Martin’s, and Silent Coup’s authors for libel, and the proceedings are still going on...

...But there are also moments of brilliance...

...And the racistly named COAL comprised plans to fund black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s bid for the 1972 Democratic nomination, so as to rend the black community...

...A great hatchet has been buried, it is suggested...

...True, their description of recent historical moods does resonate, and the frequent pop culture references provide amusingly familiar markers...

...The money worked...

...It’s enough to make one long for the generation that was soothed by a hot cup of cocoa...

...Clearly the result of the clash of their sense of cycles with the settler’s misconceived sense of linear time...

...But it’s notable mainly for its continued assault on Dean...

...Her chapter on the Nixon administration’s dismantling of Bretton Woods is a minor masterpiece-quite the best succinct account available...

...As she describes it, [Tlhe evidence suggests overall that the structural organization of the family around a married couple and their biological or adopted children is more successful at forging strong parent-child bonds and promoting ,high levels of affectionate child nurture than the fast-growing alternatives: singleparent, cohabiting-parent, or stepparent families...

...Martin’s publication, claimed that John Dean masterminded the Watergate break-in to gain information that implicated his wife in a call-girl ring...

...Instead, Liddy sounds off about the Dean lawsuit, skewering Dean by quoting passages from the legal transcript in which the former presidential counsel claims to have “misspoken” during his Watergate testimony, or blames Taylor Branch, the ghostwriter of Dean’s memoir Blind Ambition, for its apparent errors...

...Rather, it seems designed to reconcile Liddy’s own recollections set forth in Will with the seemingly contradictory claims of the later book, which Liddy perhaps wishes to believe because it scapegoats his archenemy, John Dean...

...Indeed, when Will first appeared, it was a best-seller, horrifylng and fascinating readers with now-legendary tales of Liddv charbroilinp his own Y flesh over an open flame so as to inure himself to pain...

...Employees ho got theoretical control of their privatized enterprises as shareholders have behaved like security-minded workers, not risk-taking capitalists...

...Did you...

...It was based on a belief in the mixed economy firmly held even by Republicans like Eisenhower...

...Or America could enter a new golden age, triumphantly applying shared values to improve the human condition...

...crowdfodder for its ongoing efforts to rewrite Watergate as the illegitimate overthrow of a Republican president by Democrats and the Liberal Media...

...It’s the assumption that single parents are hormonedriven and irresponsible that irks me...

...But Howe and Strauss don’t stop at using their cyclical theory of history to explain the past-they employ it to predict the future...

...Besides reconnecting us to the enormity of the Watergate crimes, Will offers a tantalizing selfportrait of Liddy...

...There are some minor errors when she strays into evidently unfamiliar territory like arms control, as well as some very important omissionsmost notably early American policies in Japan...

...The exhausted allies and defeated enemies of WWII recovered to be staunch friends, good customers, and formidable commercial competitors...

...Crawling Toward Capitalism By Alfred Friendly Jr...

...Liddy-gate by David Greenberg WE'RE COMING UP ON THE 25th anniversary of the 1972 Watergate break-in-mark vour calendars: lune 17!-and we’re sure to face another round of that journalistic staple: a visit with the villains of Watergate and an ironic comment upon their boomeranging fortunes...

...For instance, this is how Whitehead describes the impact of divorce on children: “...divorce carries multiple risks and losses for children, including loss of income, loss of ties with father, loss of residential stability, and loss of other social resources...

...She also shows the degree to which America’s allies repaid those loans, accepted the re-organization of the global economic system to American advantage, and then swallowed the debasement of the American currency after 1971, which maintained the United States’ economic primacy at foreign expense...

...but all they have managed to hold on to is an often underpaid, and increasingly unpaid, job, company housing where it has not been privatized, and a subsidized meal in the factory cafeteria...

...Elsewhere, in recounting his childhood, he writes, “Soon my every waking moment was ruled by that overriding emotion: fear...

...MARTIN WALKER is U.S...

...Here’s Whitehead on fathering outside of marriage: “The boundaries between physical caretaking and sexual abuse, innocent tussling and exploitative fondling, have become blurry and ill defined...

...And, most famously, G. Gordon Liddy, after 52 months in the pen, became a popular lecturer and radio-show host, regaling listeners with his withering attacks on Democrats and his technical mastery of guns and weaponry...

...CORINNA VALLIANATOS is a staff writer for Greenwire, an environmental news daily...

...we just want to slice away the hard exterior and see what’s cooking underneath...

...But who signed it...

...Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation and empire Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II...

...She means that by staying out of the post-war financial system devised at Bretton Woods, the Soviet Union foolishly allowed the United States to dominate what was supposed to be a multi-national structure...

...Sometimes, her taste for the democratic can stretch a trope too far...

...But there is a secular version as well that has often found its voice in the commercially successful futurist industry popularized by Alvin Toffler, Faith Popcorn, and John Naisbett...

...Even without detailing any of the conceivable benefits children might reap from the dissolution of an unhappy home situation, Whitehead is right to say that children experience serious negative side effects...

...How should a mother interpret a toddler’s reports of what Daddy did to her private parts...

...Liddy called the master plan “GEMSTONE,” and each little scheme is truly a gem of ingenious lawbreaking: DIAMOND involved kidnapping and drugging antiwar leaders and whisking them, unawares, to Mexico...

...Even a novice therapist would have a field day...

...The fact that demograhers estimate the Romans lived an average of only 20 to 30 years is apparently unimportant...

...By this I think she means that they can draw upon resources like friends and neighbors in the community, although in Whitehead’s antiseptic social historian-speak, that sounds almost commercial...

...National governments had a democratic mandate that gave them a right and even a duty to intervene in charting the strategic course for their economies...

...Nixon and his sordid cast of henchmen repel us even as they rivet our attention, like scenes of carnage by the side of the road...

...The very thought may send the current Congressional majority reeling like so many Victorian young ladies confronted with the sight of an undraped piano leg...

...A former merchant banker turned economic historian, Diane Kunz brings many assets to cold war scholarship, not the least of which is an insistence that international economics are neither too daunting nor too specialized for a lay audience...

...Why were women steered out of the workforce after World War II...

...By contrast, the Love Family ideology liberates sexual, compasionate, and parental love from its institutional and cultural moorings in marriage...

...And she makes an apt observation that, as American society increasingly models family relationships after marketplace facets of free choice and “limited warranties,” family bonds are being undermined...

...The short answer is, of course we can, once progressives and social democrats recover their nerve and expose the vainglorious political and economic nonsense of the Reagan-Thatcher cult for the ahistorical tosh and heresy that it is...

...to make the far-sighted investments that frightened off the capitalists...

...A few reviewers indulged these claims, the book sold well, and its veneer of legitimacy gave the conspiracy-minded Right-the “Who Killed Vince Foster...

...Remnants of the social order will disintegrate...

...What makes their latest book remarkable is not so much the preposterous theory it proposescrackpot philosophies with New Age overtones are a dime a dozen-but the fact that their work is being taken seriously...

...It’s not that we forgive Liddy...

...Lurking not too deeply beneath the surface of Diane Kunz's economic history of the Cold War is a political conviction that is shared by most of us who have studied the period, and also by those who remember its early years most clearly...

...Based on their remarkable, multi-year survey of corporate Russia, the authors of Kremlin Capitalism came to a “shocking conclusion...

...Trade publishers will release books calculated to appeal to broad popular audiences,” notes a recent issue of Publishers Week- 4,“b y tapping into millennial anxieties...

...But, intoxicated with the power of their theory, Howe and Strauss push on, using it to explain just about every social trend and major event in history...

...a Hero generation is born during an Unraveling, “a downcast era of strengthening individualism and weakening institutions...

...This year’s reissue of Will contains an anodyne if humorous summary of Liddy’s entry into show businessthe debates on the lecture circuit with Timothy Leary, the appearances on Miami Kce, the radio career-and some macho bluster about parachuting with the Israeli Defense Forces...

...After this postscript was published, Dean sued Liddy, St...

...The imperfect changes that have come, however, have already bemn to transform the future-the 0 promise Communism made and never kept...

...No matter how surreal or outlandish Watergate became, Liddy always managed to rise to the occasion...

...to tax the rich in order to invest in the poor...

...Yuck” sticker for those of us who cannot yet read the cultural signs, and I’m the captive and as-of-yet untarnished audience Whitehead must only dream of...

...Because these relationships are new, single and cohabiting parents are likely to be caught up in the passionate contagions and noisy eruptions of the early stages of sexual intimacy...

...Each of the four “turnings” of the saecula is characterized by a particular social mood that is determined by the characteristics of various generations...

...Well, there was no right time for reform in postSoviet Russia, and the economic reforms that have been instituted have also been continually undercut by political confusion in Moscow and in the provinces...

...We are on the edge of a Fourth Turning, they warn, which-ever so conveniently -begins after the millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade (perhaps they should have called it the Uh-Oh decade...

...The great strength of Diane Kunz’s profound, thoughtful, and fundamentally useful book is that she stresses the grandeur of that post-war achievement, and then proceeds to show how it was tarnished, cheapened, and underminedbut never destroyed-by successive generations of politicians...

...After all, we’re no longer frozen in the cold war, when the threat of nuclear annihilation preoccupied statesmen and clouded children’s dreams...

...But if it is a safer world, it is also a less familiar one, where distinguishing between our friends and our enemies is more difficult...

...But the level of paranoia Whitehead espouses is over the top...

...It was a Constitutional crisis of the first order, and it encompassed a long litany of crimes that have, for the sake of linguistic convenience, come to fall under a rubric that shares its name with an office complex...

...there is even a TV show entitled “Millennium,” just one in a series of prophetically paranoid programs and movies now showing...

...Chuck Colson, erstwhile White House tough guy, now pops up in The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal op-ed pages...

...My specialty is history and politics, but this book really ought to be turned over to a psychiatrist...

...To harbor suspicions so perverse, to remove the father so completely from his natural role and assume that without motherly supervision he will become a predator, speaks volumes about Whitehead’s adherence to degrading and stereotypical gender roles...

...Never mind that Whitehead’s view of married life as unmarred by incident and as bland as over-chewed gum says a lot about the puritanical premise upon which she writes The Divorce Culture...

...No more than a quarter of Russian companies are clear winners, and only a small number of those firms are likely to be able to finance their modernization out of their profits...

...all they suggest is the timing and dimension...

...They are the skillful apparatchiks of the Soviet era who have kept the loyalty of their employees-now their stockholders-by changing as little, including the payroll, as possible...

...But the most baffling effect of the Reagan-Thatcher years was their success in discrediting the ideology which was the organizing principle behind the West's most profound and ringing success...

...But the beauty of Will is that anyone who reads it cover to cover, even with the latest addendum, will surely come to the conclusion that the Silent Coup theory is, if not baseless, then certainly beside the point...

...Not because returning G.I.’s wanted to reclaim their jobs, but because Nomads expand gender differences...

...This is confusing stuff: Even with the book‘s numerous charts, understanding the difference between the mid-life Artist in an Awakening and the late-age Prophet in a Crisis can be tough...

...Compared with the affectional environment in households with married parents, who have usually settled into a more sedate sex life, the climate in these postnuclear family households may be overheated and eroticized...

...Under free trading rules, promoted by the United States in its own interest, they all got richer, including the United States...

...As Kunz summarizes: The Cold War itself made butter and guns possible: domestic economic prosperity basked in the light of post-World War I1 government spending and the economic support furnished by our allies...

...That books like these should be able to tap into millennial anxiety is not without irony...