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3,975 reviews · 1963–2026
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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman | F.O. Matthiessen | Frederick C. Crews | 1988-10-27 |
| Remaking the Welfare State: Retrenchment and Social Policy in America and Europe | Michael K. Brown | Andrew Hacker | 1988-10-13 |
| The New Consensus on Family and Welfare | Michael Novak | Andrew Hacker | 1988-10-13 |
| Laboratories of Democracy | David Osborne | Andrew Hacker | 1988-10-13 |
| Challenge To Leadership: Economic and Social Issues for the Next Decade | Isabel V. Sawhill | Andrew Hacker | 1988-10-13 |
| Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family | David T. Ellwood | Andrew Hacker | 1988-10-13 |
| Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America | Michael S. Dukakis and Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Andrew Hacker | 1988-10-13 |
| The Family Security Act of 1988 ("The Moynihan Bill") | US Senate Report of the Committee on Finance | Andrew Hacker | 1988-10-13 |
| The Oxford Companion to the Mind | Richard L. Gregory | Israel Rosenfield | 1988-09-29 |
| Character: America's Search for Leadership | Gail Sheehy | Garry Wills | 1988-08-18 |
| Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights | Abigail M. Thernstrom | Garry Wills | 1988-08-18 |
| Why Americans Don't Vote | Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward | Garry Wills | 1988-08-18 |
| The Best Congress Money Can Buy | Philip M. Stern | Garry Wills | 1988-08-18 |
| Redemptorama | Carol Flake | Elizabeth Hardwick | 1988-08-18 |
| Free Love and Heavenly Sinners: The Story of the Great Henry Ward Beecher Scandal | Robert Shaplen | Elizabeth Hardwick | 1988-08-18 |
| Fathers of the Victorians | Ford K. Brown | Elizabeth Hardwick | 1988-08-18 |
| Jonathan Edwards | Perry Miller | Elizabeth Hardwick | 1988-08-18 |
| The Stalker Affair | John Stalker | Peter Jenkins | 1988-07-21 |
| The Political Language of Islam | Bernard Lewis | Shaul Bakhash | 1988-07-21 |
| Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh | Gilles Kepel | Shaul Bakhash | 1988-07-21 |
| The Neglected Duty: The Creed of Sadat's Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East | Johannes J.G. Jansen | Shaul Bakhash | 1988-07-21 |
| Astrology for Parents of Children and Teenagers | Joan Quigley | Martin Gardner | 1988-06-30 |
| Astrology for Teens | Angel Star (Joan Quigley) | Martin Gardner | 1988-06-30 |
| Astrology for Adults | Joan Quigley | Martin Gardner | 1988-06-30 |
| Where's the Rest of Me? | Ronald Reagan and Richard G. Hubler | Martin Gardner | 1988-06-30 |
| Adam, Eve, and the Serpent | Elaine Pagels | W.H.C. Frend | 1988-06-30 |
| Heidegger et le nazisme | Victor Farias | Thomas Sheehan | 1988-06-16 |
| Discriminate Deterrence: Report of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy | Fred C. Ikle | Paul Kennedy | 1988-05-12 |
| Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society | Daniel Callahan | Sidney Hook | 1988-04-28 |
| A Conflict of Visions | Thomas Sowell | T.M. Scanlon | 1988-04-28 |
| William James: Writings 1902–1910 | William James | Stuart Hampshire | 1988-04-14 |
| Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c. 1590–1640 | Nicholas Tyacke | Robert M. Adams | 1988-04-14 |
| Clarendon and His Friends | Richard Ollard | Robert M. Adams | 1988-04-14 |
| Archbishop William Laud | Charles Carlton | Robert M. Adams | 1988-04-14 |
| Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans: Seventeenth Century Essays | Hugh Trevor-Roper | Robert M. Adams | 1988-04-14 |
| Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography | George Santayana | Jonathan Lieberson | 1988-03-31 |
| George Santayana: A Biography | John McCormick | Jonathan Lieberson | 1988-03-31 |
| The Trial of Socrates | I.F. Stone | M.F. Burnyeat | 1988-03-31 |
| The Literary Guide to the Bible | Robert Alter | Harold Bloom | 1988-03-31 |
| The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children | Merry White | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Remaking Japan: The American Occupation As New Deal | Theodore Cohen | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese | Donald Richie | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945–1980 | Shunsuke Tsurumi | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Occupation | John Toland | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate | Michael Montgomery | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America | Arthur Wrobel | Martin Gardner | 1988-03-17 |
| Plural but Equal | Harold Cruse | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| The Afrocentric Idea | Molefi Kete Asante | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations | Howard Schuman and Charlotte Steeh and Lawrence Bobo | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| Black Robes, White Justice | Bruce Wright | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |