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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Preface -- I. Overview -- 1. The Politics of Race -- 2. Rejection and Protest: An Historical Sketch Report of the National Advisory Commission -- 3. Race and the Crisis of the American Spirit -- II. Cultural Politics and Political Ideology -- 4. Postmodern Racial Politics in the United States: Difference and Inequality -- 5. Malcolm X and the Revival of Black Nationalism -- 6 False Prophet: The Rise of Louis Farrakhan -- 7. The New Black Conservatives -- III. Interest Groups and Political Parties

Rueter reviews 'Race, Politics, and Governance in the United States' edited by Huey L. Perry.

This past January, I conducted a class on "Presidential Elections: The New Hampshire Primary" with 13 students from Middlebury College. We spent one week in Middlebury, primarily watching presidential debates held this summer and fall. On January 11, we headed to New Hampshire. I have ten strong impressions of the New Hampshire presidential primary:Penetration: The political process in New Hampshire is open and accessible. Each student had at least one "brush with greatness." A Dole volunteer was the lead driver in Dole's motorcade before and after the January 15 Dartmouth debate, and was in Dole's holding room before and after the debate. A Bush volunteer drove George Bush's truck, went to Bush's estate in Maine, and was within 10 feet of Air Force Two her first night on the job. A Kemp volunteer met Kemp and Hart her first night in New Hampshire.

This essay explores the effect of the "nuclear winter" thesis upon the strategic debate. Both "hawks" and "doves" responded to the nuclear winter thesis in an ideological manner, illustrating the theological nature of the debate on nuclear strategy. Hawks used the nuclear winter data to argue for limited nuclear options, strategic modernization, environmentally sensitive weapons, and strategic defense. Doves used the same information to argue for mutual assured destruction, arms control, and/or global disarmament. Another group of analysts, the "pragmatic Center," exhibited a more flexible, subtle understanding of the nuclear dilemma.

Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Fisher, David E.: Fire and ice: The greenhouse effect, ozon depletion and nuclear winter. - New York/N.Y. : Harper and Row, 1990