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Caroline Poplin is a practicing physician in Virginia. She graduated from Yale Law School and practiced law for more than a decade. She then attended the University of Rochester Medical School. She writes frequently on health care issues, most recently inSociety.
Michael A. Ledeen, who holds the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., is an authority on intelligence and international affairs. His most recent book,Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away, was published in fall 1996.
Steven Pressman is professor of economics and finance at Monmouth University in New Jersey. He serves as coeditor ofThe Review of Political Economy and as associate editor of theEastern Economic Journal. He is coeditor ofWomen in the Age of Economic Transformation, author ofQuesnay’s Tableau Economique: A Critique and Reassessment, and editor ofInteractions in Political Economy.
Abraham Edel, a distinguished American moral and social philosopher, is research professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his numerous books areThe Theory and Practice of Philosophy, Science and the Structure of Ethics, andAristotle and His Philosophy.
Louis Filler is the author ofMuckrakers and the best-sellingCrusade against Slavery. His other books includeDictionary of American Social Reform; Unknown Edwin Markham; andDictionary of American Conservatism. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the University of Bristol and taught as a visiting professor in numerous literature and history departments from the City University of New York to the University of San Francisco.
Paul Hollander is professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he has taught, among other subjects, the sociology of literature. He has written widely both on communist systems and American society as well as Western intellectuals. His last book,Anti-Americanism was published in a new, paperback edition by Transaction in 1995.
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Poplin, C., Ledeen, M.A., Pressman, S. et al. Books in review. Soc 34, 80–96 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02823105
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