Table of Contents, August 17, 1978 - The New York Review of Books

The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War by Aleksandr M. Nekrich, translated by George Saunders

Edmund S. Morgan, The Heart of Jefferson

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills

Jerome Charyn, Black Diamond

Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues by William Brashler

Stanley Hoffmann, Who Can Salvage Peace?

Decade of Decisions: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1976 by William B. Quandt

Israel: The Embattled Ally by Nadav Safran

Irvin Ehrenpreis, At the Poles of Poetry

Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht

Gaudete by Ted Hughes

Robert Craft, Concorde Diary

Letters

John Kenneth Galbraith, Oil in the Family
Page Smith, Oil in the Family
Edward Albee, Saul Bellow, et al. Merci, Giscard
Ruby Cohn, Richard Ellmann, Beckett Biographia

Contributors

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

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (September 2007)

James Schuyler (1923–1991) was a preeminent figure in the celebrated New York School of poets. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and near Buffalo, New York. After World War II, he made his way to Italy, where he served for a time as W.H. Auden’s secretary. His books include two other novels, A Nest of Ninnies (written with John Ashbery) and Alfred and Guinevere (also published by NYRB Classics), as well as numerous volumes of poetry.

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.