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March/April 1993

Reinventing American Democracy

“Reinventing American Democracy”: a forum with Ellen S. Miller, Ralph Nader, and Cass R. Sunstein. Also: Edward Field on “The Mystery of Alfred Chester,” Vivian Rothstein’s “Notes from Vietnam,” Farah Jasmine Griffith on Elaine Brown, and more.

Editor’s Note

Around Town: Delivering Care
Michael Myers, M.D.

Reinventing American Democracy: A Forum

Money, Politics, and Democracy
Ellen S. Miller

Democratic Revolution in an Age of Autocracy
Ralph Nader

Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy?
Cass R. Sunstein

First Frost in the Suburbs
Jennifer Rose

The Mystery of Alfred Chester
Edward Field

Blood
Heidi Jon Schmidt

In Memoriam: Franklin Walker III 1954-1988
Carol Moldaw

Elaine Brown’s Taste of Power
Farah Jasmine Griffin

Poet’s Sampler
Sydney Lea introduces Robert Cording

Notes from Vietnam
Vivian Rothstein

Two Poems
Kevin Bowen

Brief Reviews

Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel by Jane Miller
Robin Becker

Family Night by Maria Flook
Suzanne Berne

The Colors of Heaven edited by Trevor Carolan
Leonard Casper

Mogador: The Names of the Air by Alberto Ruy Sanchez, translated by Mark Schafer
William Holinger

Good Hope Road by Stuart Dischell
David St. John

In the Blood by Carl Phillips
Stephen Tapscott

Readers’ Forum
Letters on the arms embargo against Bosnia, and on the responsibility of intellectuals

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