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June 17, 2000
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THE FOURTH GREAT AWAKENING AND THE FUTURE OF EGALITARIANISM. By Robert William Fogel. University of Chicago Press; 390 pages; $25. Distributed in Britain by John Wiley; Pounds16

THE MISSING MIDDLE. By Theda Skocpol. Norton; 220 pages; $25.95 and Pounds19.95

THE WORKING LIFE. By Joanne Ciulla. Times Books; 286 pages; $25

America presents the puzzling spectacle of discontent amid plenty. What is missing? Spiritual values, more help for families or more rewarding work?

TO TAKE a trip around the mind of Robert Fogel, one of the grand old men of American economic history, is a rare treat. At every turning, you come on some shiny pearl of ...

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