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AEI Press (Washington); 300 pp; $20 |
Review excerpt:
The book is a potent weapon that can knock the legs from under the "America is declining" bores. ... The big picture of the 20th century is one of a dramatically improving quality of life for almost everyone.
Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and the author of many books, inclduing American Social Trends (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991). Louis Hicks is an associate professor of sociology at St. Mary's College of Maryland and co-author of Systems of War and Peace (University Press of America, 1995). Ben J. Wattenberg is a senior fellow at AEI, a syndicated solumnist, moderator of the PBS series "Think Tank," and author of many books, including Values Matter most (Free Press, 1995).
