JUNE 1999 | Volume 283 No. 6   Building Wealth One of the nation's most influential economists asks a few basic questions. How does knowledge create wealth? How can societies incubate entrepreneurs? What skills will the entrepreneurs need? by Lester Thurow Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism The work that best explains Henry Kissinger is his doctoral dissertation. What Kissinger has always offered is a grimly persuasive view of the human condition. by Robert D. Kaplan Eden: A Gated Community The story of a single-minded businessman turned environmentalist who bought a thousand square miles of Chile, determined to establish a wilderness park. He thought Chile would be grateful. by William Langewiesche   Reports Notes & Comment: The Mirror of Dorian Gray We all know that mirrors show images in reverse. It doesn't have to be that way. by Cullen Murphy Crime: When They Get Out America is putting more people behind bars than ever. Soon we will be releasing more of them than ever. by Sasha Abramsky Personal File: Two Deaths in Rathmines "The disaster began midmorning, when I went to my father's bedroom -- to which he was confined by illness." A memoir of 1927, by the Irish writer and statesman. by Conor Cruise O'Brien Fiction & Poetry To the Animal in the Hole A poem by Erica Funkhouser The Dress A poem by C. K. Williams Sheep A short story by Thomas H. McNeely Web-Only: Sympathy for a Killer. An Atlantic Unbound interview with Thomas H. McNeely. The Grain of Sound A poem by Robert Morgan The seahorse symbol indicates that an article is supplemented with audio, an author interview, or other Web-only sidebar. Browse and search The Atlantic's online archive. Arts & Leisure Travel: The Wild New West A family with varied interests seeks satisfaction among the ranchers and rafters, the sprocketheads and aging hippies, of Moab, Utah. by Thomas E. Ricks Gardening: Politically Correct Planting It's not enough to appreciate native plants -- specialty catalogues now expect you to join a moral crusade. by Stephen Budiansky Food: Red Sauce Revisited No longer is it a mark of shame. by Corby Kummer Books The Making of the English Middle Class The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, by David Cannadine by Geoffrey Wheatcroft The Grads of '69 Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age With Hillary's Class -- Wellesley '69, by Miriam Horn by Wendy Kaminer Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams Other Departments 77 North Washington Street Contributors Letters (Send a letter to the editor.) The June Almanac The Puzzler by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon Word Improvisation by J. E. Lighter All material copyright © 1999 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.