Description: "This, the penultimate year of the Clinton administration, may be a good time to review some of his so-called achievements, among them the attempt to lift the ban on gays in the military. And Janet Halley's Don't is a great place to start. . . . The outstanding contribution of Don't is its review of how the language of policy led to such disastrous results. . . . Halley makes her intricate and thoughtful argument memorable through several key phrases: the conduct/status distinction, the queen-for-a-day defense, and the two models of propensity--the actuarial and the psychometric. Like great pamphleteers before her, these phrases help fix the argument in readers' minds without detracting from the analysis. . . . Offering suggestions . . . takes this book beyond most polemics: it can be useful."

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