Table of Contents
Volume 21, Number 14 · September 19, 1974
Sheldon S. Wolin, From Jamestown to San Clemente 
The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
Democracy and Its Discontents: Reflections on Everyday America by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
Ernst Badian, The Alexander Romance
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
V.S. Naipaul, Argentina: The Brothels Behind the Graveyard
Nicholas von Hoffman, Just Plain Jerry
Jerry Ford, Up Close: An Investigative Biography by Bud Vestal
Stephen Spender, In Eliot's Cave
Golden Codgers by Richard Ellmann
Eliot in Perspective edited by Graham Martin
Eliot in His Time edited by A. Walton Litz
The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot by William M. Chace
Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Matthews
Ronald Steel, All About Henry
Kissinger by Marvin Kalb, by Bernard Kalb
Emma Rothschild, Running Out of Food
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population by Lester R. Brown
John Bayley, From the Ridiculous to the Ridiculous
Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess
Roger Shattuck, Proust and the Will
Thomas L. Haskell, Were Slaves More Efficient? Some Doubts About 'Time on the Cross'
Murray Kempton, A Curious Politician
Forest Hills Diary: The Crisis of Low-Income Housing by Mario Matthew Cuomo, with a preface by Jimmy Breslin, an afterword by Richard Sennett
Joseph Brodsky, An Appeal for Vladimir Maramzin
Letters
George Soros, Peter Singer, Prove It
Contributors
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)
Thomas Haskell is the McCann Professor of History at Rice University and the author of Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. (December 1997)
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.
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
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)
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
