Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 14 · September 28, 1978

Lawrence Stone, The Worst of Times?

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

Robert M. Adams, Blue Sheep Zen

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya by George B. Schaller

Rosemary Dinnage, Before Her Time

Stories by Doris Lessing

Robert O. Paxton, The Mess of Things

France 1848-1945 Volume I: Ambition, Love and Politics Volume II: Intellect, Taste and Anxiety by Theodore Zeldin

The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan by Stephen A. Schuker

Marshall Frady, Jerry for President?

Brown by Orville Schell

Jerry Brown: The Philosopher-Prince by Robert Pack

Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse by J.D. Lorenz

Jerry Brown: In a Plain Brown Wrapper by John C. Bollens, by G. Robert Williams

Stephen Jay Gould, Heroes in Nature

A Species of Eternity by Joseph Kastner

Gennady Smakov, Theater of Cruelty

To Dance by Valery Panov, by George Feifer

Harry Maurer, Is Brazil on the Brink of Democracy?

Robert Coles, Lost Generation

The Children Are Dying by Ned O'Gorman

Stephen Toulmin, The Mozart of Psychology

Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes by L.S. Vygotsky, edited by Michael Cole, by Vera John-Steiner, by Sylvia Scribner, by Ellen Souberman

The Psychology of Art by L.S. Vygotsky

Soviet Developmental Psychology: An Anthology edited by Michael Cole

Neal Ascherson, Boys Will Beat Boys

The Old School Tie: The Phenomenon of the English Public School by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Ann Douglas, Mysteries of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott by Martha Saxton

Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott, edited with an introduction by Sarah Elbert

James Joll, Why Men Do Not Revolt

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Barrington Moore Jr.

Robert Craft, Sour Notes

A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music: From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths

The Editors, Short Reviews

Acting Out: Coping with Big City Schools by Roland Betts

Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons by Gerald Durrell

Spooks: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents by Jim Hougan

Leon Trotsky by Irving Howe

The Year of the Ant by George Ordish

The History of Australia: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1975 by Russel Ward

Sun, Moon and Standing Stones by John Edwin Wood


Letters

Laurence Veysey, Serge Lang, Or None of the Above
Paul Weiss, Begging the Bakke Question
W. Paul Vogt, Ronald Dworkin, Begging the Bakke Question
Herbert Schmertz, Upward Mobility



Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

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

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Marshall Frady's books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)


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