cover image Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America

Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America

John Chancellor. Harper Perennial, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-092065-4

NBC news commentator Chancellor blames Reagan and Congress for tripling the national debt and failing to address problems of housing, pollution and poverty; he advocates a national technology policy, increased taxes and the establishment of a youth service corps. PW called this an ``opinionated, well-argued commentary'' that ``proposes a mixed bag of controversial reforms.'' (June)