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Numbering more than 800 pages (including 62 pages of footnotes), The Crisis Years is a compelling piece of historical research that benefits from post- perestroika access to Soviet sources. Its attraction as a scholarly work, however, should not detract from its appeal to the casual reader, who can easily become immersed in this captivating description of how the U.S. and the Soviet Union almost blundered into World...
None of that, however, can detract from the awesome speed, power and totality of the allies' military victory. The war, particularly its climactic 100-hour campaign, bids fair to be enshrined in military textbooks for as long as the annihilation of a Roman army by Hannibal at the battle of Cannae in 216 B.C. That is still a model for a strategy of encirclement, like the one followed by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the allied commander in the gulf...
Such skirmishes detract attention from the much broader role communitarianism could play amid the desolate landscape of American domestic policy. Who else speaks to the need to reanimate public service and restore civic virtue? Glendon captures this spirit when she says, "We are discontented with the orthodoxies of the right and the left. My hope is that there is a constituency in America for truth telling, moderation and complexity." Several articles in the inaugural issue of Responsive Community provide tantalizing hints of new ways of looking at old problems. Galston, for one, suggests a bold reformulation of divorce laws...
...believe that the finding of noassociation between beta carotene and skincancer...should not detract from the very stronghypothesis about beta carotene in thechemoprevention of cancer of other epithelialsites...
...production with so much scope and innovation, technical quibbles can't detract from the overall grandeur. With a little more attention to detail, Burton's next dramatic effort should be magnificent...