Table of Contents
Volume 9, Number 4 · September 14, 1967
Helen Muchnic, Tolstoy the Great 
Tolstoy and the Novel by John Bayley
John McDermott, Crisis Manager
To Move a Nation by Roger Hilsman
Conor Cruise O'Brien, In Quest of Uncle Tom
Dublin: A Portrait by V.S. Pritchett, Photographs by Evelyn Hofer
Irish Journal by Heinrich Böll
Clifford Geertz, Under the Mosquito Net
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term by Bronislaw Malinowski
Coral Gardens and their Magic: I: Soil Tilling and Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands II: The Language of Magic and Gardening by Bronislaw Malinowski
Neal Ascherson, Ghosts
Journey Through a Haunted Land: The New Germany by Amos Elon
Paul Goodman, For a Young Widow (poem)
Mordecai Richler, Notes on Expo
Richard H. Popkin, Garrison's Case
M.I. Finley, Plutarch, Historical Novelist
Plutarch and His Times by R.H. Barrow
Julius Caesar, A Political Biography by J.P.V.D. Balsdon
Letters
Herbert Blau, Up the Drainpipe
Leonard Schapiro, Walter Laqueur, The Jews and the Revolution
John de J. Pemberton, Andrew Kopkind, Dissension in the ACLU
Gary Rader, Draft Resistance
Andre Gorz, George Lichtheim, State of Mind
Norman N. Holland, Richard Wilbur, Decoding Poe
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)
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.
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)
