Volume 45, Number 10 · June 11, 1998
Grand Illusion
By Andrew Hacker
One Nation, After All
by Alan Wolfe
Viking, 359 pp., $24.95
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
by Tamar Jacoby
Free Press, 614 pp., $30.00
Reaching Beyond Race
by Paul M. Sniderman, by Edward G. Carmines
Harvard University Press, 191 pp., $22.95
Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century
by Samuel C. Heilman
University of Washington Press, 190 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Roberts vs. Texaco: A True Story of Race and Corporate America
by Bari-Ellen Roberts, with Jack E. White
Avon Books, 285 pp., $25.00
Alan Wolfe's One Nation, After All summarizes a study he calls 'The Middle Class Morality Project.' This phrase is engaging and raises hopes it will provide a commentary akin to Tocqueville's, on how middle-class Americans are conducting their lives. And it does, even if inadvertently.[1] The book records the responses of 200 suburban householders to varied questions posed by a research assistant, whom Wolfe sent to suburbs outside Boston, Atlanta, Tulsa, and San Diego. In what may be a sign of our times, only a quarter of those she approached agreed to be interviewed. The ones who did were asked to react to statements much like the following:
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