Table of Contents
Volume 1, Number 9 · December 26, 1963
David Riesman, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Richard Hofstadter, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Richard H. Rovere, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
George Lichtheim, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Irving Howe, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Benjamin DeMott, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Neal Ascherson, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Norman Mailer, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Dwight MacDonald, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
C. Vann Woodward, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Hans J. Morgenthau, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
David T. Bazelon, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Paul Goodman, Poem
(poem)
Kenneth Burke, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Hannah Arendt, The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
Arthur I. Waskow, Washington Letter: Civil Rights
G. S Fraser, Instead of An Elegy
(poem)
William Styron, The Habit
The Consumers Union Report on Smoking and the Public Interest by Ruth Brecher, by Edward Brecher et al.
W.H. Auden, The Common Life
(poem)
Morton Dauwen Zabel, Huneker
James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts by Arnold T. Schwab
J.H. Plumb, Dark Mission
Livingstone's African Journals 1853-56 edited with an Introduction by I. Schapera
Letters
Albert Wohlstetter, Arms Debate
Robert A. Levine, Marcus G. Raskin, Arms Debate
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2008)
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.
Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)