Kai T. Erikson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-393-31319-2
Erikson examines how various communities and victims have dealt with man-made disasters, concluding that these experiences can help keep people's faith in the government and social systems. (July)
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Kai T. Erikson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (263p) ISBN 978-0-393-03594-0
For the past 20 years Erikson, a sociology professor at Yale University, has studied comunities stunned by recent disasters. His first subject, Buffalo Creek, W. Va., which suffered from the break of an earthen dam in 1972, led him to write...
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Kai T. Erikson, Author, Isaiah Berlin, Editor, Paul Horgan, Editor Yale University Press $50 (224p) ISBN 978-0-300-04662-5
Writing for the Yale Review , 18 accomplished men and women--three Britons and 15 Americans--vividly recall experiences with an equal number of notable figures. John Hollander remembers W. H. Auden; Bayard Rustin works with A. Philip Randolph. Mary...
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