Table of Contents
Volume 3, Number 6 · November 5, 1964
Murray Kempton, The People's Choice 
My Hope for America by Lyndon B. Johnson
Marius Bewley, Death and the James Family
The Diary of Alice James edited by Leon Edel
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Oswald Family
John Richardson, Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau by Robert Schmutzler, translated by Edouard Roditi
W.H. Auden, Private Poet
Rhymes of a Pfc by Lincoln Kirstein
Paul de Man, Sartre's Confessions
The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre, Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman
Frederick C. Crews, Private Lives, Public Lives
Unfinished Funeral by Niccolo Tucci
Bad Characters by Jean Stafford
Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow
Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy
James R. Newman, Failing Safe
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal by David E. Lilienthal
M.I. Finley, Etruscan Things
Etruscan Culture, Land and People by Axel Boethius. and others. with the collaboration of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, translated by N.G. Sahlin
Those Mysterious Etruscans by Agnes Carr Vaughan
The Etruscans by Zacharie Mayani, translated by Patrick Evans
The Etruscans by Emeline Richardson
Bernard Bergonzi, The Visions of H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells: Journalism and Prophecy 1893-1946 compiled and edited by W. Warren Wagar
Michael Steinberg, Critic
Music Observed by B.H. Haggin
Letters
Sol Babitz, Letters
Walter Goldfrank, Letters
Bernard J. Hassan, Letters
D.A.N. Jones, Letters
Ann Birstein Kazin, Letters
Contributors
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.
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)
M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of
the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley's best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist
for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1985.
John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)
