<p>Sociologist Etzioni, now of George Washington U., was Carter's reindustrialization guru, and his plan for national salvation is reminiscently preoccupied with the cultural decay manifest in egocentrism and ""me-ism."" In this, he also accords with Moral Majority adherents;but he dissents from their primitivist and authoritarian solutions. To rebuild the decayed ""infrastructure"" necessary for a second economic take-off--the transportation, education, and energy systems--we will have to create institutions that foster ""mutuality"" and ""civility"" (i.e., a sense of the common good). Rather than leaving children to ""work through"" their ego-centered character formation, schools will have to engage in personality-shaping. (Etzioni's suggestions: more resources directed toward the lower levels of education; more work/study programs for teenagers.) Within the family, mutuality and civility can be engendered by ""basic parenting,"" which doesn't amount to much more than common sense. (This is the kind of tract in which people do not converse or discuss, they ""dialogue."" Sometimes they even ""megalogue."") Another predictable concern is consumerism, enemy of the deferred gratification requisite for reindustrialization; still another, the proliferation of social-service ""entitlements."" And piety is heaped upon piety as Etzioni writes that management should recognize the human needs of workers, while simultaneously deferring the ""quality of life society"" until after reindustrialization has been accomplished.</p>

An immodest agenda: Rebuilding America before the twenty-first century

Etzioni, Amitai

New Press

The War Against the Amazons

Politics & Social Sciences

Kleinbaum, Abby Wettan

Social Sciences

Globalization And Its Discontents

Business & Money

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Economics

My Father's War

ADRIAAN VAN DIS

<p>These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late18th century and the present day. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social protest - the formation of the British workin class, labour custom and traditions, the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, male and female images in revolutionary movements, the machine-breakers, revolution and sex, peasants and politics, the rules of violence, the common-sense of Tom Paine. There are more recent reflections: on the May Day holiday; the Vietnam War; socialism and the avantgarde; Mario Puzo, the Mafia and the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Guiliano; and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus. There are tributes to some of jazz's legendary figures - Count Basie, SidneyBechet and Dike Ellington - anf the tragic blues-singer Billie Holiday.</p>

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

HOBSBAWM, Eric

The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

THOMPSON, E.P.

Mystery

Kennedy's Brain

Henning, Mankell

A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom (New Press People's History)

History

David. Williams

Americas

In the Shadow of the Wind

Literature & Fiction

Hébert, Anne

Literary

The soul of politics: A practical and prophetic vision for change

Wallis, Jim

World

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