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...starters, Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...
...from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons, pastures and cornfields, laced with urgent streams and dreaming lakes. The earth turns from New Jersey silt to Maryland sand...
...anthropology or art history? College on Your Own (Bantam; $6.95), a new 417-page anthology of college reading lists, offers a second chance to set out on all those roads not taken, in or out of college. Compiled by Gail Thain Parker, former president of Bennington College, and veteran Guidebook Author Gene R. Hawes, the book is an intellectual Whitman's Sampler. The reading lists have been approved by some 20 professors at leading colleges. Their fields range from such traditional disciplines as art history, English literature and mathematics to such newer areas as film, black American history...
...medieval guidebook: The Art of Courtly Love...
...urgent priority to spreading the gospel announcement. They want every human being to experience the truth that Jesus died to redeem him from the abyss of sin; they preach that faith in Jesus as Lord and Saviour is necessary for salvation, that the Bible is the one unimpeachable guidebook to faith and life. Those who accept the invitation of the good news are converted or "regenerated"-simply a Latinism for born again...