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The Next Century

David Halberstam
Reviewed by William G. Hyland
Summer 1991
The Next Century
David Halberstam
William Morrow
1991
126 pp.
$16.95
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The heart of this brief and powerful jeremiad is the accusation that American society is abandoning concerns for democratic opportunity and the productive strength of the nation in favor of sharp class divisions, greed and shortsightedness.

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