Volume 30, Number 14 · September 29, 1983
International Episodes
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Present History
by Theodore Draper
Random House, 458 pp., $19.95
Theodore Draper's book collects his essays, long and short, published at various dates during the past decade, and dealing mainly with international affairs during the same period. The first two sections, 'On Nuclear War' and 'Where Are the Allies?' are closely related, and make up more than one-third of the book. These are also the most recent in date of composition, and will have the freshest interest for readers now. The two essays that make up the section 'On Nuclear War' both appeared in The New York Review of Books in the second half of 1982. Those who read and admired those essays at the time—as the present reviewer did—will be interested in re-reading them, in the context of other writings by Mr. Draper on the same subject, notably the long and closely reasoned essay. 'The Western Misalliance' which opens the second section in the present book, and first appeared in The Washington Quarterly in 1981.
Review, 3334 words
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