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Volume 14, Number 7 · April 9, 1970

V.S. Pritchett, Iron Comedian

The Mandarin and Other Stories by Eca de Queiroz, translated by Richard Franko Goldman

The City and the Mountains by Eça de Queiroz, translated by Roy Campbell

The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eça de Queiroz, translated by Ann Stevens

Gore Vidal, Ambassador Erect

Annenberg: A Biography of Power by Gaeton Fonzi

Murray Kempton, Sticking to the Union

UE Guide to Automation and the New Technology United Electrical Workers

Union Man: The Life of A Labor Statesman by David J. McDonald

Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker 1933-1941 by Irving Bernstein

American Labor: The Twentieth Century edited by Jerold S. Auerbach

Bread and Roses Too: Studies of the Wobblies by Joseph Robert Conlin

American Labor and United States Foreign Policy by Ronald Radosh

A.J.P. Taylor, Scarred Monuments

The Younger Pitt: The Years of Acclaim by John Ehrman

The Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 by Thomas Pakenham

Kenneth Koch, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry

Ilona Baburka, Charles Conroy, Natalie DeStefano, et al. Poems from P.S. 61 (poem)

I.F. Stone, A Century of Futility

Robert Rosenblum, Neo-Neoclassicism

Neo-classicism by Hugh Honour

On Neoclassicism by Mario Praz, translated by Angus Davidson

Peter Dale Scott, Laos: The Story Nixon Won't Tell

George Lichtheim, What Socialism Is and Is Not

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Letters

A. Gorman Hills, P.B. Medawar, The Scientific Imagination
Allan Bloom, Plato

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Contributors

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.

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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