Table of Contents

Volume 19, Number 1 · July 20, 1972

V.S. Pritchett, Growing Old

The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir

Jason Epstein, E. W. 1895–1972

I.F. Stone, McGovern vs. Nixon on the Arms Race

Karl Miller, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Midnight Oil by V.S. Pritchett

A Sort of Life by Graham Greene

Christopher Lasch, Populism, Socialism, & McGovernism

A Populist Manifesto: The Making of a New Majority by Jack Newfield, by Jeff Greenfield

Socialism by Michael Harrington

Thomas R. Edwards, People in Trouble

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

Open Heart by Frederick Buechner

Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Wilfrid Sheed, Everybody's Mafia

The American Mafia: Genesis of a Legend by Joseph L. Albini

The Mafia Is Not an Equal Opportunity Employer by Nicholas Gage

Honor Thy Father: The Inside Book on the Mafia by Gay Talese

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Godfather directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Emma Rothschild, The Great Transpo Expo

Richard Wilbur, The Mind-Reader (poem)

Wassily Leontief, The Limits of Economics

Between Capitalism and Socialism: Essays in Political Economics by Robert L. Heilbroner

The Editors, Short Review

Metaphors of Self by James Olney


Letters

Donal Henahan, Robert Craft, Stravinsky's Obituary
Toby E. Huff, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Like Minds
Ned O'Gorman, The Storefront
George Rosen, Like Minds
Noam Chomsky, Paul Jacobs, et al. The Case of Giyora Neuman
Paul Garon, Louise Hudson, et al. The Arsenal Explodes



Contributors

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)

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.

Richard Wilbur's book Mayflies: New Poems and Translations will be published in April. (November 2000)


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