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THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD Five Points The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum Tyler Anbinder The Fur...

Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas (December 1997)

James T. Fisher James T. Fisher holds the Danforth Chair in Humanities at Saint Louis University. His most recent book is Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-61 (University of...

Thank You, Saint Jude by Robert A Orsi From a tiny shrine, a mighty saint did grow (November 1996)

BOOKS Saint Jude: Double agent Thanh You, Saint Jude Women's Devotions to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes Robert A. Orsi Yale University Press, $30,303 pp. James T. Fisher Robert A. Orsi's 1985...

Sex and Suits, by Anne Hollander/The Empire of Fashion, by Gilles Lipovetsky: (May 1995)

BOOKS Suit your various selves SEX AND SUITS The Evolution of Modern Dress Anne Hollander Alfred A. Knopf, $25,212 pp. THE EMPIRE OF FASHION Dressing Modern Democracy Gilles Lipovetsky;...

Alive & kicking (August 1994)

REPORT FROM SOCCER TOWN, U.S.A. ALIVE & KICKING AN AMERICAN TRADITION If you wish to know America, a noted European scholar once advised, you must first understand baseball But on June 17,1...

Strange Weather (February 1992)

OVERCAST, VARIABLE WINDS STRANGE WEATHER Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits Andrew Ross Verso, $16.95, 275 pp. James T. Fisher As an undergraduate I took a course on...

Fisher, James T.

Fisher, Naomi

Fisher, Robert

Fishkin, Jim

Fiske, A. Longfellow

Fitch, Robert E.

Fitsgerald, Gerald M. C.

Fitts, Allston III

Fitz, Raymond L.

Fitz-Gerald, William G.

FITZGERALD, (REV.) MAURICE

FITZGERALD, CHRISTOPHER I.