Table of Contents

Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974

Neal Ascherson, Triumph of the Will

Hitler by Joachim C. Fest, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston

Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality by Werner Maser, translated by Peter Ross, by Betty Ross

Hitler's War Aims: The Establishment of the New Order by Norman Rich

The Evolution of Hitler's Germany: The Ideology, the Personality, the Moment by Horst von Maltitz

Hitler Close-Up by Heinrich Hoffman, by Henry Picker, compiled by Jochen von Lang, translated by Nicholas Fry

Sieg Heil! An Illustrated History of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler by Stefan Lorant

Charles Rycroft, Folie à deux

The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim, by R.F.C. Hull

Janet Adam Smith, Exodus

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Bernard Avishai, The New Struggle for Palestine

Michael Wood, Purgatorio

Paradiso by José Lezama Lima, translated by Gregory Rabassa

Susan Sontag, Shooting America

"Fotografa di un'Epoca: Ghitta Carell" Special issue of Skema Anno V, Numero 8/9

Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy, with a preface by Warren Susman

Down Home by Bob Adelman, text edited by Susan Hall

As They Were by Tuli Kupferberg, by Sylvia Topp

Men Without Masks: Faces of Germany 1910-1938 by August Sander, with an introduction by Golo Mann

In This Proud Land: America 1935-1943 As Seen in the Farm Security Administration Photographs by Roy Emerson Stryker, by Nancy Wood

Dwellers at the Source: Southwestern Indian Photographs of A. C. Vroman, 1895-1904 by William Webb, by Robert A. Weinstein

Alison Lurie, The Fate of the Munchkins

The Annotated Wizard of Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by W.W. Denslow, with an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Michael Patrick Hearn

Kenneth Koch, The Circus (poem)

Garry Wills, Uncle Thomas's Cabin

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie

Richard Sennett, Surrender of the Will

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins by Konrad Lorenz, translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm

Alex de Jonge, Under the Overcoat

Divided Soul: The Life of Gogol by Henri Troyat, translated by Nancy Amphoux

George McMillan, Portrait of a Southern Liberal

Ralph McGill: Reporter by Harold H. Martin

Robert L. Olson, L.S. Stavrianos, Robert L. Heilbroner, An Exchange on The Human Prospect


Letters

Richard Bevis, Bernard Avishai, Imperial Israel?
Rose Styron, Plight of Moroz



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)

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)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Charles Rycroft is a psychoanalyst practicing in London. His books include A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety and Neurosis, The Innocence of Dreams, and Psychoanalysis and Beyond. (May 1997)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)


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