The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia—through the development of the porn industry, the rise of the "swinger" culture, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.

美国当代自由主义的工程就是在宗教之后，在一个没有固定意义的世界里苦苦寻找对立各方的共处之道。如罗尔斯一再强调的，他的正义论或政治自由主义所试图解决的，是一个像美国这样现代民主社会中出现的善观念多元化的问题，就是在没有官方信仰、没有最高指导思想的社会里如何协调正义，确定共享的价值。