Volume 47, Number 12 · July 20, 2000
Watch Out, Democrats!
By Lars-Erik Nelson
America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters
by Ruy Teixeira, by Joel Rogers
Basic Books, 215 pp., $27.00
Government Works: Why Americans Need the Feds
by Milton J. Esman
Cornell University Press, 196 pp., $25.00
The Selling of 'Free Trade': NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy
by John R. MacArthur
Hill and Wang, 388 pp., $25.00
Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money
by David S. Broder
Harcourt, 260 pp., $23.00
The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century
by Dick Morris
Renaissance Books, 252 pp., $15.95 (paper)
In 'The Sign of Four,' as Sherlock Holmes walked out of 221B Baker Street on a brief excursion to investigate the disappearance of Captain Arthur Morstan, he recommended to Dr. Watson a book that he described as 'one of the most remarkable ever penned,' Winwood Reade's The Martyrdom of Man. First published in 1872, it is an iconoclastic history of the world that George Orwell described as one of the formative books of his youth. In it, the dutiful Watson could have read Reade's description of the last days of Rome, a time in which, he said, the emperor and his favorites dined on nightingales and flamingo tongues as their world crumbled.
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