It's tough to review an interior volume of
a continuing, multivolume work like DARE, especially when
previous volumes (1, 1985; 2, 1991) have been so thoroughly
reviewed and so well received – and when many readers
of LiS may already be familiar with the series.
Reviewers of the first volume could comment on the history
of DARE, its goals and methodologies, the unique problems
encountered during its development along with their solutions,
and its innovations – such as the clever maps which
still give a recognizable US, though skewed according to
population density. Reviewers of the final volume will
be able to look back over the entire series, casting a
critical eye on the overall success of the endeavor and
evaluating its success as a work of scholarship. Nevertheless,
I will do my best to concentrate on the volume at hand,
although some glances forward and backward are inevitable.