The Reviewer: Contents - August 29, 1999

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. Thomas Carlyle

	PICK OF THE WEEK
	THE A TO Z OF WORLD DEVELOPMENT Buddhist Fundamentalism is a series of essays edited by Tessa Bartholomeusz of Florida State University and Chandra de Silva of Old Dominion University in Virginia. The editors use the Fundamentalism Project of Marty, Appleby and others to describe fundamentalism as a reliance on religion as a source of identity; boundary setting that determines who belongs and who does not; dramatic eschatologies [stories which give meaning]; and the dramatisation and mythologisation of enemies, says Subir Ghosh

	PICK AND CHOOSE
	SIGNED AND SEALED THE FATE OF THE ASIAN ELEPHANT When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh

	OTHER PICKINGS
	RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE DICTIONARY When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh
	SPEAKER'S LIFETIME LIBRARY When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh
	NEVER LET A FOOL KISS YOU OR A KISS FOOL YOU CHIASMUS AND A WORLD OF QUOTATIONS THAT SAY WHAT THEY MEAN AND MEAN WHAT THEY SAY When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh
	1,000 YEARS, 1,000 PEOPLE RANKING THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SHAPED THE MILLENNIUM When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh

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