Table of Contents

Volume 17, Number 8 · November 18, 1971

Gore Vidal, Eleanor

Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash

Richard Ellmann, The First Waste Land—I

The Waste Land Annotations of Ezra Pound by T.S. Eliot. A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the, edited by Valerie Eliot

Edmund Wilson, The First Waste Land—II

Stephen Spender, Two Poems (poem)

S.R. Eyre, Man the Pest: The Dim Chance of Survival

Christopher Ricks, Playboy of the Western Word

In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner

Hannah Arendt, Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers

J.H. Elliott, Passage to Cathay

The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528 by Lawrence C. Wroth

The Beginnings of Modern Colonization by Charles Verlinden, translated by Yvonne Freccero

The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages by Samuel Eliot Morison

Beyond the Capes: Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger (1776-1877) by Ernest S. Dodge

Stephen Ambrose, Some Like It Cold

The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II by Adam B. Ulam

Edmund R. Leach, The Politics of Karma

Buddhism and Society by Melford E. Spiro

Islam Observed by Clifford Geertz

Religion and Change in Contemporary Asia edited by Robert F. Spencer

The Editors, Short Reviews

Conversations: Literature and the Modernist Deviation by George P. Elliott

The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times by Tony Heilbut

Who Owns America? by Walter J. Hickel

No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark by Ron Porambo

The Mythology of Imperialism by Jonah Raskin

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Letters

Luis Jose Rodriguez, Help for Allende
Aleksander Boleslaw, A.L. Krause, Jan Oszustwo
Woodin Rowe, Arbors and Mists
R.C. Stephenson, David Craig, Reading Scott

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Contributors

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)

Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 2008)

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

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.

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