These reviews were originally published by n.b., a web project of the New York Review of Books that has since been taken down.
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Robert Kaplan, An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future (Winter 1998-99)
 
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James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Summer 1998)
 
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Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (May 1998)
 
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Earl Shorris, New American Blues (December 1997)
 
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David Harlan, The Degradation of American History (Nov. 1997)
 
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Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power (October 1997)