Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 16 · October 25, 1979

Leon Wieseltier, Between Paris and Jerusalem

When Memory Comes by Saul Friedländer, translated by Helen R. Lane

John Leonard, Fathers and Ghosts

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

Francine du Plessix Gray, The Heavenly Deception

Crazy for God: The Nightmare of Cult Life by Christopher Edwards

Moonstruck: A Memoir of My Life in a Cult by Allen Tate Wood, by Jack Vitek

Hostage to Heaven: Four Years in the Unification Church, by an Ex-Moonie and the Mother Who Fought to Free Her by Barbara Underwood, by Betty Underwood

Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church edited by Irving Louis Horowitz

Heberto Padilla, Three Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)

Gore Vidal, On the Assassins' Trail

Candido: or, A Dream Dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia, translated by Adrienne Foulke

David Brion Davis, Uncle Oedipus and Ante Bellum

Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age by George B. Forgie

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Waiting for Revolution

Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer

Elaine H. Pagels, The Discovery of the Gnostic Gospels

Robert M. Adams, Unhappy Landings

Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy

Peter France, Pasternak in Private

My Sister, Life and Other Poems by Boris Pasternak, edited and with texts by Olga Andreyev Carlisle, Color photographs by Inge Morath

Pasternak, A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Victor Erlich

Boris Pasternak's Translations of Shakespeare by Anna Kay France

John Talbott, The Old Ecole Tie

Elites in French Society: The Politics of Survival by Ezra N. Suleiman

Class and Status in France: Economic Change and Social Immobility, 1945-1975 by Jane Marceau

D.P. Walker, The Power of the Press

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Cold War Revisited

Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State by Daniel Yergin

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 by Robert Dallek

Russia and the United States by N.V. Sivachev, by N.N. Yakovlev

Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941-1945 by Vojtech Mastny

Stalin Embattled, 1943-1948 by William O. McCagg Jr.

The Communist Movement from Comintern to Cominform by Fernando Claudin, translated by Brian Pearce, by Francis MacDonagh

The American Non-Policy Towards Eastern Europe, 1943-1947: Universalism in an Area not of Essential Interest to the United States Press by Geir Lundestad

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Letters

Lynn E. Rose, Martin Gardner, Not a Mountebank
Daniel L. Kline, Martin Gardner, Not a Mountebank
Herbert Ruhm, Harry Levin, 137 Bunnys
Douglas Taylor, Found!

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Contributors

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
 (December 2009)

Peter France is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh, the author of Politeness and Its Discontents, and the editor of The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. (June 2005)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper's and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

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)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

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

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