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Aborting a Fetus: The Legal Right, the Personal ChoiceSuzannah Lessard
A legal right that must be secured for all women is not an automatic moral right for an...

America the FeatherbeddedSuzannah Lessard
We grow up wanting interesting, useful, 18 and human work. Too many of us get a phony j...

America the FeatherbeddedSuzannah Lessard
We grow up wanting interesting, useful, and human work. Too many of us get a phony job ...

America's Time Traps:The Youth Cult, the Work Prison, the Emptiness of AgeSuzannah Lessard
Why it's not too early or too late to quit school if you don't want to be there, or le...

The Architect of Desire (1996)Suzannah Lessard
Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
3 Reviews

Books
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Beyond Cleaver (Review) Suzannah Lessard
The education of George Jackson, a black man who learned in California prisons the nat...
- Soledad Brother by George Jackson #2, Jean Genet, and Jonathan Jackson, ...

Books
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Book Review (2 Reviews) Suzannah Lessard
Each book predicts doom if we heed the other.
- Man and Atom by Glenn T. Seaborg and William R. Corliss
- Poisoned Power by John W. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin

Busting Our Mental Blocks on Drugs and CrimeSuzannah Lessard
If we want to reduce crime dramatically and treat addicts humanely, it's time to open o...


Civility, Community, Humor: The Conservatism We NeedSuzannah Lessard
There are better elements in the conservative tradition than the defense of wealth and ...

Books
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The Dark Side of Two American Dreams (2 Reviews) Suzannah Lessard
A perennially moving population is destroying community life. Lawrence Fuchs looks at w...
- A Nation of Strangers by Vance Packard
- Family Matters by Lawrence H. Fuchs

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Design for Living (Review) Suzannah Lessard
Suburban Nation, by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, ...
- Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, ...

Do Entrepreneurs Have More Fun?Suzannah Lessard
A liberal society makes entrepreneurs its scapegoats, but they may show us the way out ...

Art & Politics
Dream BuilderSuzannah Lessard
Architect Stanford White and the values of the Gilded Age

End Discrimination and Increase ProductivitySuzannah Lessard
"When society accepts any group as it is and creates an environment in which that group...

On Political Books
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The First Lady of the New Deal (Review) Suzannah Lessard
How Eleanor Roosevelt discovered herself through politics.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook

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Flashback (Review) Suzannah Lessard
Reassessing the Sixties, by Stephen Macedo
- Reassessing the Sixties by Stephen Macedo

The Folding of Fred HarrisSuzannah Lessard
Poverty alone did not cause the populist to surrender. What Harris should have learned ...

Gay is Good For Us AllSuzannah Lessard
The new sexual revolution promises to free the white, male heterosexual king from the o...

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The Hidden Injuries of Class (Review) Suzannah Lessard
This book shows that self-esteem in the working class depends on badges, such as job t...
- The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb

Is Camelot Dead? A New Look at John KennedySuzannah Lessard
The man behind the waning reputation.


Kennedy's Woman Problem - Women's Kennedy ProblemSuzannah Lessard
The intelligent woman's guide to the touchiest issue of the 1980 campaign.

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The Legacy of SDS (Review) Suzannah Lessard
For one writer who was there, it is a surprising combination of reaction and reaffirmat...
- SDS by Kirkpatrick Sale

Let Those Hillbillies Go Get ShotSuzannah Lessard
The anti-war movement has never made a connection between its privileged immunity to th...

Let Those Hillbillies Go Get ShotSuzannah Lessard
The anti-war movement never made the connection between its privileged immunity to the ...

On Political Books
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Lewis Lapham's Lament (2 Reviews) Suzannah Lessard
He bemoans the life of the upper class but can't tear himself away from the dinner part...
- Money and Class in America by Lewis H. Lapham
- The Founding Fortunes by Michael Patrick Allen

Moral Myopia: The New York Review and the New York IntellectualsSuzannah Lessard
Inside they call it solidarity, but out here it looks like plain old conflict of interest.

The Ms. Click! The Decter Anguish,The Vilar VulgaritySuzannah Lessard
Midge Decter and Esther Vilar give Women's Liberation the same kind of fair shake that ...

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New Worlds (Review) Suzannah Lessard
An Empire Wilderness, by Robert D. Kaplan
- An Empire Wilderness by Robert D. Kaplan

Nixon and His Staff: The View from Their Own MirrorSuzannah Lessard
A review of Catch the Falling Flag, by Richard Whalen, and Courage and Hesitation, by A...
The Washington Monthly, May 1972, pp. 53-59

Books
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The Perfect Little Setup (Review) Suzannah Lessard
There are reasons for incorporating the aged back into daily life, other than good will...
- The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir

Personal History: Stanford White's RuinsSuzannah Lessard
The great-granddaughter of the architect examines his scandalous death and what it did ...

The PrincessSuzannah Lessard
Why progress for women will require a dose of Machiavelli




Publishing Conglomerated: When Profits Become CensorSuzannah Lessard
Conglomerates have devoured the most independent industry in the country. What happens...


ReflectionsSuzannah Lessard
The Split



Rehnquist, Powell, and the Cult of the ProSuzannah Lessard
How the Senate and the press were at least half wrong



On Political Books
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Taste for Sale (Review) Suzannah Lessard
How Sotheby's sold taste as an avenue to class.
- Sotheby's by Robert Lacey

Taste, Class, and Mary Tyler MooreSuzannah Lessard
Once family background determined social class. Now it's more important to know the nam...

Taste, Class, and Mary Tyler MooreSuzannah Lessard
Once family background determined social class. Now it's more important to know the nam...


The Terms of TenureSuzannah Lessard
What you give up to get it.

An Ulsterman's Irishman, an Arab's JewSuzannah Lessard
Conor Cruise O'Brien and Abie Nathan both left their war camps to stand in the line of ...

Up Against the Barbecue: Smithtown Middle AmericaSuzannah Lessard
People are confused, bitter and afraid in Smithtown, Long Island. An invisible enemy th...

Special Book Section
What Do People Do All DaySuzannah Lessard
Short on sermons and long on fascinating detail, Ken Lasson's The Workers provides the ...


What's Wrong With McgovernSuzannah Lessard
McGovern unvisored. The flaws in our favorite candidate.

Why Johnny Can't Work: The Snobbery FactorSuzannah Lessard
James Coleman and his critics agree that training in skills is important only as a matt...
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