Table of Contents

Volume 22, Number 8 · May 15, 1975

J.H. Elliott, The Great American Debate

The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750-1900 by Antonello Gerbi, translated by Jeremy Moyle

American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia by Alden Vaughan

Bartolomé de Las Casas in History edited by Juan Friede, edited by Benjamin Keen

In Defense of the Indians by Bartolomé de Las Casas, translated, edited, and annotated by Stafford Poole C.M.

All Mankind Is One by Lewis Hanke

Garry Wills, Backstairs at Court

Conversations with Kennedy by Benjamin C. Bradlee

Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House by William Safire

William H. Gass, The Battered, Triumphant Sage

Tribute to Freud by HD

Social Amnesia by Russell Jacoby

Freud and His Followers by Paul Roazen

Michael Wood, Pictures From an Institution

Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill

Thurber: A Biography by Burton Bernstein

Charles Rosen, Romantic Documents

Flaubert: Correspondence Tome I, 1830-1851 edited by Jean Bruneau

Byron's Letters and Journals, Vol. 1: 'In my hot youth,' 1798-1810, Vol. 2: 'Famous in my time,' 1810-1812, Vol. 3: 'Alas! the love of Women!' 1813-1814 edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Andrew Kopkind, The Spirit of '76

Richard Murphy, The Art of Debunkery

High Windows by Philip Larkin

Steven Englund, The French Disease

Politics, Power, and Bureaucracy in France: The Administrative Elite by Ezra N. Suleiman

Robert Craft, Telling Time

Time in Greek Tragedy by Jacqueline de Romilly

Karl Miller, Within the Pale

An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry by Derick Thomson

The Faber Book of Irish Verse edited by John Montague

Seamus Heaney, The Poet Crowned (poem)

Eric Foner, Founding Father Tom

Paine by David Hawke

Thomas Paine: His Life, Work, and Times by Audrey Williamson

Mattityahu Peled, Elias H. Tuma, Israel and the PLO: A Way Out of the Impasse

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Letters

Ivan Morris, Amnesty in Czechoslovakia

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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)

Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Richard Murphy's most recent books are Collected Poems and The Kick: A Life Among Writers. (February 2004)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

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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