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In Cit~:Etliro~·, he distillshis screen,and society,and a host of i* esperiences into a robust insider's other colol·fill characters who ~ accountofthejournalism ofhis day, populatedthe city's diverse night Sixty-five years after its first clubs, from El Fey to the Cottoll p"blication, it remains a lively, entel·- Club. taiIling, and valuable record of the $17.95 paperback yolden age of American journalism. $17.')5 paperback The Johns Hopkins University Press · 1-800-537-5487· www.press.jhu.edu ;fl ~t~ Bfg~i ~ t~B1P~f ~ lel BVI~ :1687~~ Taking Stock Dilemmas of Scale in America's AmericanGovernment in the Twentieth Federal Democracy Century Martha Derthick, Editor Morton Keller and Nationalist and localist traditions vie within the Shep Melnick, Editors American federal system and the American experi- What is American government lil<etoday! How ment with self-government. 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Yet there is a paradox about this milestone that calls out for attention. With the 20th century, we have capped a thousand years of stupendous material and, yes, moral progress with the hundred bloodiest years in the history of humankind. Not only have we endured two world wars and innumerable smaller ones but the unimagin- able human devastation wrought by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and their imitators. Not one of the nine centuries that came before can rival our own in blood. Apart from the almost accidental tragedy of World War I, the great clash- es of our bloody century have not been provoked by the hunger for land, or riches, or other traditional sources of national desire, but by ideas— about the value of individual dignity and freedom, about the proper organi- zation of society, and ultimately about the possibility of human perfection. These conflicts were not incidental to the moral progress of the past thou- sand years but a tragic part of the quest, as societies cast off all traditional sources of moral and political authority and embraced new ideas and ide- ologies that led to radical evil. So while the world faces many concrete challenges in the future, from controlling nuclear and biological weapons to coming to terms with the possibilities of genetic engineering, our own recent history should remind us that our destiny will be most powerfully influenced by the larger ideas to which we give our allegiance. At the WQ, this millennial reminder of the urgency of ideas fortifies our sense of mission, and we hope that read- ers, too, will take from the history of the 20th century a fresh appreciation of the often questioned “relevance” of the mind. 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