Book Notes: John N.Adams &; Roger Brownsword: Understanding contract law, 4th edition. London: Thomson Sweet &; Maxwell. ISBN 0-421-85850-8. 273 pp., GBP 13.95.

Book Notes

Book Notes: John N.Adams &; Roger Brownsword: Understanding contract law, 4th edition. London: Thomson Sweet &; Maxwell. ISBN 0-421-85850-8. 273 pp., GBP 13.95.     

Jarol B. Manheim. Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 0-8058-5068-6, $34.50 (cloth).

Over the past ten years a large, diverse, and increasingly sophisticatedliterature has emerged to explain the decline—indeed thedeath—of liberalism and the rise of the New Right to politicaldominance. Jarol Manheim argues that the death knell for liberalismand the left has been rung too soon. While conservatism currentlyis the dominant American ideology, Biz-War contends that itfaces a real threat from a reinvigorated left now known by anew, less pejorative name, the Progressive movement. Manheim’s