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Policy Review articles from October 1999
A bimonthly journal of the Hoover Institution that promotes inquiry into the American condition, American and other government and political and economic systems, and the role of the United States in the world. For the academic audience.
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Policy Review archives from October 1999
Allen Drury and the Washington Novel.
October 1, 1999... WHEN ALLEN DRURY DIED LAS YEAR on his 80th birthday, the thoughts of editors and obituary writers naturally turned to Advise and Consent, the book that made him famous, that gave a memorable last film role to Charles Laughton, and that in many...
Judge to Justice.(Review)
October 1, 1999... DAVID ALISTAR YALOF. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. 240 PAGES. $27.50
POLITICS HAVE always played a part in Supreme Court nominations. The Constitution...
The Arrogant Amateur.(Review)
October 1, 1999... WAYNE C. BOOTH. For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. 256 PAGES. $22.00
Wayne Booth's For the Love of It is a small book that will sell few copies and delight almost all who read it. Booth had a fine...
The Soccer Divide.(Review)
October 1, 1999... JOE MCGINNISS. The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY. 416 PAGES. $25.00
SOCCER MANIA is spreading fast across the land - the national frenzy surrounding the success of the U.S. team at the women's World Cup was a...
The Systemization of Everything.(Review)
October 1, 1999... JOHN KEEGAN. The First World War. ALFRED A. KNOPF. 475 PAGES. $35.00 BYRON FARWELL. Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-18. W.W. NORTON. 336 PAGES. $27.95
The prominence of war in American life since 1914 constitutes "a...
Beyond "Ancient Hatreds": What Really Happened to Yugoslavia.
October 1, 1999... WITH THE DEATH OF DICTATOR Josip Broz Tito in 1980 and the crisis of European communism beginning a half-decade later, Yugoslavia - a "country" assembled after World War I from pieces of the former Austro-Hungary, Turkish possessions...
Military Supremacy And How We Keep It.
October 1, 1999... IN FEBRUARY 1776, only months before the American Declaration of Independence, British historian Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It was almost immediately recognized as an important...
The Schools They Deserve: Howard Gardner and the Remaking Of Elite Education.
October 1, 1999... UR POSTMODERN TIMES, it is often observed, are rough times for orthodox belief. But religious beliefs aren't the only ones being put to the test these days. Certain established secular creeds, too, seem to be taking their lumps.
Consider...
The Golden Age Of Cooking.
October 1, 1999... Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has...