Table of Contents

Volume 16, Number 4 · March 11, 1971

Elizabeth Hardwick, A Doll's House

Murray Kempton, Truman and the Beast

The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith

The Politics of Loyalty: The White House and the Communist Issue, 1946-1952 by Alan D. Harper

Seeds of Repression: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of McCarthyism by Athan Theoharis

Daniel Ellsberg, Laos: What Nixon Is Up To

W.H. Auden, He Descended into Hell in Vain

A Spy for God: The Ordeal of Kurt Gerstein by Pierre Joffroy

Daniel Berrigan, Robert Coles, S. J., A Dialogue Underground

Noel Annan, Pure in Heart

Dear Miss Weaver by Jane Lidderdale, by Mary Nicholson

Ted Hughes, Two Poems from Crow (poem)

I.F. Stone, In the Bowels of Behemoth

TFX Contract Investigation Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Report of the Committee on Government Operations made by its

The Military Establishment: Its Impact on American Society by Adam Yarmolinsky

How Much is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program by Alain C. Enthoven, by K. Wayne Smith

The Pentagon Watchers: Students Report on the National Security State edited by Leonard S. Rodberg, edited by Derek Shearer

The War Profiteers by Richard F. Kaufman

Tom Bottomore, Has Sociology a Future?

The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology by Alvin W. Gouldner

Recent Sociology No. 1 edited by Hans Peter Dreitzel

Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge by Reinhard Bendix

Sociology in its Place and Other Essays by W.G. Runciman

Michael Wood, End of the Line

Last Things by C.P. Snow

Flats by Rudolph Wurlitzer

Dunfords Travels Everywheres by William Melvin Kelley

Blue Movie by Terry Southern

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Letters

Paul J. Dietl, James E. McClellan, et al. Rights and Interests
Ronald J. Stone, Jason Epstein, Radical Chic
John Holt, Ivan Illich, What Was Said
Nguyen Hong Long, David Marr, et al. Imprisoned Monks
Dore Ashton, Protest in Brazil
Mark W. Weber, Slaughter in Eritrea
David Nolan, The Hunger Doctor
Africa Research Group , Africa Research
Henry Schwarzschild, Help for Ben Chaney

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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.

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to 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 (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).

Ted Hughes's translation of Racine's Phèdre will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January and published that month. His translation of the complete Oresteia, of which the poem in this issue is the opening, will be staged by the National Theatre in England and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June. His last book was Birthday Letters. He died on October 28. (December 1998)

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.

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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