WE FIND OURSELVESIN MOONTOWN by Jay Gummerman...

WE FIND OURSELVES

IN MOONTOWN

by Jay Gummerman (Alfred A. Knopf: $16.95; 175 pp.) “Anyone who lives in California and yearns to find good new writers will fall upon this book with glad cries . . . because of (Gummerman’s) uncanny management of dialogue and the luminous texture of lives that the rest of us barely give a thought to.”--Carolyn See

AMERICAN GENESIS

A Century of Invention and

Technological Enthusiasm

by Thomas P. Hughes (Viking: $24.95; 349 pp.) “The central thesis is simple and compelling. The most distinctive, impressive and important achievement in American history is not our political system, (Hughes) says, but our technology.”--Lee Dembart