Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
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> The Claremont Institute--PRECEPTS | | August 27, 2001
> Visit <http://www.claremont.org> | | No. 294
>
> Claremont Institute Precepts: Summer Claremont Review Is
> Here
> By Ben Boychuk
>
> Americans today live in the Age of Reagan. How and why that
> came to pass is explained in the new issue of the _Claremont
> Review of Books_. But you won't be able to learn about it
> unless you subscribe today.
>
> The Summer issue features a very special excerpt from
> Steven F. Hayward's new history, "The Age of Reagan," and a
> definitive essay about how to think about Reagan's
> political legacy in the 21st century written by CRB's
> editor, Charles R. Kesler.
>
> "The real Reagan is the Reagan we know, or more precisely,
> he's the Reagan we can know if we apply ourselves to the
> close study of his words and deeds," Kesler writes.
>
> "Above all, he was a serious man," notes Hayward, and not
> the lucky simpleton or bumbling amateur portrayed in the
> press and in liberal history books.
>
> The actor-turned-politician demonstrated in 1966 that he
> possessed great political cunning when he defeated "Giant
> Killer" Pat Brown for governor of California. Subscribers
> will read how Reagan did it in the new issue.
>
> Hayward's book doesn't hit the store shelves until next
> month. You can have a preview of it now -- but only if you
> subscribe to the Claremont Review of Books today.
>
> Also in the Summer issue:
>
> * Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings may be
> getting together for reunions these days, but historian
> Lance Banning argues that the evidence "proving" that
> Jefferson fathered Hemings' child is far from conclusive.
>
> * What is "pragmatism" exactly? It's an idea about ideas -
> they should never harden into ideologies. Above
> all, "truth" should never get in the way of utility. Thomas
> B. Silver examines its origins and dangerous ramifications
> in a review of a new book about the philosophy's founders.
>
> * When Raoul Berger died last September at age 99, he was
> famous as a legal scholar, a lawyer, and a top-flight
> violinist. In this interview with Constance Rossum, Berger
> reflects on his remarkable triple life.
>
> * University of Chicago legal scholar Cass Sunstein thinks
> that the Internet needs to be regulated by the government
> in order to make Americans "more democratic." Edward J.
> Erler says that it's hard to "force people to be free"
> without taking their freedom away.
>
> * Richard E. Morgan mulls the persistently troubling
> constitutional legacy of _Brown v. Board of Education_.
>
> * Plus reviews and essays by Patrick Garrity, Michael
> Zuckert, James Nichols, Mark Blitz, Ken Masugi, Timothy
> Wheeler, William P. Hoar, and Josh Jensen.
>
> If you haven't subscribed to the Claremont Review of Books
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> only will we send you this latest, most important issue, we
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> Constitutional Pillar of Freedom_, edited by Glenn Ellmers
> with analysis by Michael Uhlmann, free of charge.
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