Taking adoption seriously

He is the former Assistant Executive Director of both the Child Welfare League of America and the Day Care and Child Development Council of America. He has published widely on the issue of adoption. Among other works, he served as the chief editor of the Adoption Fact Bookand co-authored the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Adoption.     

Why stalin? A national debate

He is also the codirector of the Wiener Library of Contemporary History in London. He is the author of major studies on terrorism, political movements, ideological trends, and cultural forms. His books include: Soviet Realities; Culture and Politics from Stalin to Gorbachev; America, Europe, and the Soviet Union;and The Political Psychology of Appeasement.He is also editor of European Peace Movements and the Future of the Western Alliance.     

The cycle of reform

He is the author of, among other books, A Better Worldand Feminism in America,both published by Transaction.     

Feminism in films

He is author most recently of Roots of Radicalism; The Media Elite; The IQ Controversy: The Media and Public Policy;and Watching America.     

Books in review

He is the co-author, with William G. Scott, of Organizational Values in America.     

Rise and decline of mass culture?

He is author of Roots of Radicalism; The Media Elite; The IQ Controversy: The Media and Public Policy; Watching America;and The Mass Media in Liberal Democratic Societies.     

Sex and marriage in utopia

where he has also taught history since 1964. He is author of Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communitiesand A Frontier Town Grows Up in America.     

Realities and mythologies of rape

He is author of Capitalism and the Welfare State; Clients and Constituents;and co-author of The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism in America;and Protecting Young Children from Sexual Abuse: Does Preschool Training Work?     

Downtown malls and the city agenda

He is the author or editor of eight books and more than 50 articles on housing and city development. He has served as Chairman of the Faculty at M.I.T. and as director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. His most recent book, written with Lynne Sagalyn, is Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities,from which this article is extracted.     

Gender equality and social security

He is author of Capitalism and the Welfare State; Clients and Constituents;and co-author (with Barbara Gilbert) of The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism in America;and (with Joel Duerr Berrick) With the Best of Intentions: The Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Movement.     

Black on black crime

He has published extensively on health and social welfare policy issues and is coauthor of Urban America and Public Policiesand The Chronically-Limited Elderly: The Case for a National Policy for In-Home and Community-Based Services.     

Popular science,social science,metaphor and deception

He written widely on a variety of topics and is author or co-author of many books and articles. Among his books are Address Unknown: Homelessness in America; Homelessness and Health; After the Clean-Up: Long Range Effects of Natural Disasters; Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Firearms; Under the Gun: Weapons Crime and Violence in America;and The State of the Masses.His current research focusses on adolescent violence and on treament programs for homeless alcohol and drug abusers.     

Trade protection comes to Silicon Valley

He has written extensively on the issue of international trade including Made in America: The 1981 Automobile Carteland How Import Restraints Reduce Employment.     

On social position and political achievement

He is author and coauthor of more than 70 books and 150 articles including Riches, Class, and Power Before the Civil War; Three Centuries of Social Mobility in America;and “Social Structure and Politics in American History” in the 1982 American Historical Review.     

Taxing capital gains

From 1969 to 1971 he was a member and from 1972 to 1974 the Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. His major publications include The Fiscal Revolution in America, Presidential Economics,and Governing the $5 Trillion Economy.He is a member of the board of contributors of the Wall Street Journal, where his writings appear frequently.     

Africa’s culture producers

Wole Soyinka is an internationally acclaimed playwright, novelist, and critic and Nobel laureate for literature. He is professor of comparative literature at the University of Ife, Nigeria. His works, published in America, include Collected Plays; The Man Died: A memoir; Myth, Literature, and the African World;and a classic of African autobiography, Ake: The Years of Childhood.     

The paradox of deinstitutionalization

Previously he taught at Clark University. He has received grants from the National Endowment for Humanities and the National Institutes of Health. Among his writings are Workers and Utopia, The State and the Mentally Ill, Mental Institutions in America, Mental Illness and American Society, From Asylum to Community,and The Mad Among Us.     

Germany and the new Europe

where he directs the Europe-America and Global Security Projects. He has been Director of Studies of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and taught on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He served the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was staff member for Western Europe on the National Security Council. This article is a condensed version of his forthcoming book, America, Germany and the Future of Europe.     

Reviewing two centuries

He has spent nearly a quarter of a century in teaching, research, and technical assistance in Brazil, South Korea, Venezuela, and Chile; and he is currently doing research on urban social movements in Latin America. His most recent books are Life Space and Economic Space: Essays in Third World Planningand, published by Princeton University Press, Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action,from which this article is adapted with permission.     

Choosing mates—the American way

He has published numerous works on family sociology and contemporary Chinese social organization. He is currently involved in a comparative study of mate choice and marital relations in China and the United States. His latest book is Dating, Mating, and Marriage.