Table of Contents
Volume 21, Number 16 · October 17, 1974
Gore Vidal, Emperor of Concrete 
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Mary McCarthy, Postscript to Nixon
Virgil Thomson, Making Black Music
Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell
Black Music: Four Lives 1966) by A.B. Spellman
Black Music by LeRoi Jones
Reflections on Afro-American Music by Dominique-René de Lerma
Black Talk by Ben Sidran
Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music by Frank Kofsky
V.S. Naipaul, Conrad's Darkness
Luigi Barzini, The Not So Great Dictator
Mussolini: An Intimate Biography by His Widow by Rachele Mussolini, as told to Albert Zarca
John Thompson, Caught Again
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Robert Craft, Taking the Wagner Cure
Willie Lee Rose, What We Didn't Know About Slavery
Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl Degler
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 by Richard S. Dunn
White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginians by Wesley Frank Craven
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood
Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Gerald W. Mullin
Michael Walzer, Rebels Without a Cause
Religion and Revolution by Guenter Lewy
Norman Dorsen, Leon Friedman, Stephen Gillers, Meeting the FBI
Letters
Stanley Diamond, End Games of Empire?
Contributors
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
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.
Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)
Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)
