Mills, Nicolaus

Chronicles the seventeen-year fight for a World War II memorial in Washington D.C., discussing why there was so much controvery surrounding the creation of a memorial, why many Congressmen opposed it, how it was finally approved, what the final design was, and other related topics.

Describes what the United States and its international allies did and did not do in the face of state-sponsored slaughter in the last decade of the twentieth century in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor.

America's leading commentators in government, business, and academia identify important ambiguities in the complex issue over race and gender equality.

Collection of essays by authors such as Toni Morrison, Peggy Noonan, Francis Fukuyama, and Nathan Glazer, discussing the question of whether America's new immigrants are a wealth of diversity or merely a crushing burden.