Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 14 · September 15, 1977

Andrew Hacker, Safety Last

Thinking About Crime by James Q. Wilson

New York Cops Talk Back by Nicholas Alex

The Growth of Crime: The International Experience by Leon Radzinowicz, by Joan King

Officer Down, Code Three 60176) by Pierce R. Brooks

Police: Streetcorner Politicians by William Ker Muir Jr.

V.S. Pritchett, Invader

Rebecca West: A Celebration help, with a critical introduction by selected from her writings by her publishers with her Samuel Hynes

Emma Rothschild, Carter and Arms: No Sale

The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed by Anthony Sampson

Foreign Defense Sales and Grants, Fiscal Years 1973-1975; Labor and Material Requirements of Defense/International Economic Affairs prepared by the US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Report to Congress on Arms Transfer Policy from the US Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations prepared by the US Department of State, limited supply available

Robert Towers, A Silent Ring

Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner by Jonathan Yardley

John Kenneth Galbraith, Hitler: Hard to Resist

The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945 by Peter Hoffmann, translated by Richard Barry

Willie Lee Rose, The Emergence of American Women

The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 by Nancy F. Cott

Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture by William H. Chafe

We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America by Barbara Mayer Wertheimer

The Female Experience: An American Documentary by Gerda Lerner

Seven Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition by Judith Nies

The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian America by Hal D. Sears

Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Welter

The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas

Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America, 1830-1860 by Susan Phinney Conrad

Michael Wood, A Heavy Legacy

Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith

The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood

W.W. Bartley III, What Was Wrong With Darwin?

To Be an Invalid: The Illness of Charles Darwin by Ralph Colp Jr., M.D.

The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin edited by Paul H. Barrett

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Anti-Barbarian

The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev by V.S. Pritchett

Denis Donoghue, Stevens at the Crossing

Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate by Harold Bloom

Robert Mazzocco, Letter from Las Vegas

Martin Garbus, South African Justice

David Hackett Fischer, Lawrence Stone, Growing Old: An Exchange


Letters

Stephen R. MacKinnon, Simon Leys, Chinese Shadows
Larry Agran, P.B. Medawar, Cancer
Carlo Ripa di Meana, News from the Biennale
Alastair Morrison, John K. Fairbank, Defending Dr. Hoeppli
William Phillips, Suez
Erwand Abrahamian, Reza Baraheni, et al. Freedom in Iran



Contributors

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (April 2009)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge and Harvard, and Professor of History at Harvard. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (February 2009)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)


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