Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 15 · September 29, 1977

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Two Edmund Burkes?

The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative by Isaac Kramnick

Robert Towers, Nixon's Seventh Crisis

The Public Burning by Robert Coover

Gore Vidal, The Wizard of the 'Wizard'

To Please a Child by Frank Joslyn Baum, by Russell P. MacFall

Wonderful Wizard Marvelous Land by Raylyn Moore, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury

The Oz Scrapbook by David L. Greene, by Dick Martin

The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was edited with two introductory essays by Martin Gardner, by Russell B. Nye

Jonathan D. Spence, The Chinese Dream Machine

China and the Search for Happiness: Recurring Themes in Four Thousand Years of Chinese Cultural History by Wolfgang Bauer, translated by Michael Shaw

Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys

Chinese Socialism to 1907 by Martin Bernal

Garry Wills, The Trials of Bert and Jimmy

Nigel Dennis, Rigging the Lawrence Case

T.E. Lawrence by Desmond Stewart

Martin Gardner, The Holes in Black Holes

The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes by Isaac Asimov

The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics by Nigel Calder

Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes by Robert M. Wald

Space and Time in the Modern Universe by P.C.W. Davies

The Iron Sun: Crossing the Universe Through Black Holes by Adrian Berry

White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe by John Gribbin

Ten Faces of the Universe by Fred Hoyle

Henri Zerner, Survival of the Fittest?

Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France by Francis Haskell

C.B.A. Behrens, Porn, Propaganda, and the Enlightenment

The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Robert Darnton, by Bernhard Fabian, by Roy McKeen Wiles, edited by Paul J. Korshin

Priest and Parish in Eighteenth-Century France: A Social and Political Study of the Curés in the Diocese of Dauphiné, 1750-1791 by Timothy Tackett

Lafayette: A Biography by Peter Buckman

Richard Poirier, Women at Home

Eric Foner, Paul K. Hoch, Mark Naison, et al. Corrupt Sports: An Exchange

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Letters

James Nohrnberg, Robert M. Adams, The Scholarly Life
Robert Skidelsky, Noel Annan, Cutting Mosley
Albert B. Friedman, Richard Ellmann, Muddled

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Contributors

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

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)

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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.

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)

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