Fall 2024

The Anatomy of Fascism  by Robert O. Paxton Vintage, 2005, 336 pp., $15.00 The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz Harvard University Press, 2003, 362 pp., $29.95 Ever since William Wordsworth celebrated revolution as a gift of youth and Edmund Burke …

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America by Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan Books, 2001, 256 pp., $23 White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and its Rewards in Corporate America by Jill Andresky Fraser W.W. Norton & Company, 2001 …

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam Simon & Schuster, 2000, 544 pp.   Tucked away on a shelf in my parents’ home is a trophy honoring their achievements in the Knights of Pythias bowling …