The Limits of Democracy The Promise of Politics By Hannah Arendt Schocken. 240 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by John Patrick Diggins Professor of history, Graduate Center of the City University of...
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Believers in a Certain America The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror By Michael Ignatieff Princeton. 212 pp. $22.95. Who Are We? The Cultural Core of American National...
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The Follies of Power Politics The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People By Jonathan Schell Metropolitan. 433 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by John Patrick...
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Culture Watching 'THE HAIRY APE' AND THE FBI By John Patrick Diggins Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, now appearing in New York's Selwyn Theater, was first performed at a turning point in...
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Perspectives DANIEL BELL'S BALANCING ACT BY JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS The test of a "first-rate intelligence," observed F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the ability of one mind to hold two contradictory ideas...
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United We Should Stand The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution By Michael Lind Free Press. 436 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by John Patrick...
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Exposing the Poseurs of Expertise_ A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II By WilliamL. O'Neill Free Press. 480pp. $24.95. Reviewed by John Patrick...
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