Are We Rome? (By Cullen Murphy) | The Idea That Is America (By Anne-Marie Slaughter) | Americanism (By David Gelernter)
Born on the Fourth of July
Three books look to the past for clues to our nation's future.
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ARE WE ROME?
The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
By Cullen Murphy
Houghton Mifflin 262 pp. $24
THE IDEA THAT IS AMERICA
Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World
By Anne-Marie Slaughter
Basic. 254 pp. $25.95
AMERICANISM
The Fourth Great Western Religion
By David Gelernter
Doubleday. 229 pp. $24.95
