Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 5 · April 3, 1980

V.S. Pritchett, Love and Hate

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857 selected, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller

Charles Rycroft, How Psychosomatic Is Your Illness?

Social Causes of Illness by Richard Totman

C. Vann Woodward, The Best?

The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control by Clark R. Mollenhoff

Jimmy Carter: A Character Portrait by Bruce Mazlish, by Edwin Diamond

Noel Annan, Grand Disillusions

The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Third Canto (poem)

Nicholas von Hoffman, Passing the Buck

The Fate of the Dollar by Martin Mayer

John Willett, Looking for the Exit

Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske

Elizabeth Hardwick, Love It or Leave It!

Imagining America by Peter Conrad

Robert Darnton, What's New About the Old Regime?

The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789: Society and State by Roland E. Mousnier, translated by Brian Pearce

Alfred Corn, Maine Real Estate (poem)

Emma Rothschild, Boom and Bust

Department of Defense Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1981 by Harold Brown Secretary of Defense

James Wolcott, Some Fun!

Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler

Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood

E.J. Hobsbawm, Publick Benefits and Private Vices

Paternalism in Early Victorian England by David Roberts

Barclay Fox's Journal edited by R. L. Brett

Aristocracy and the People: Britain 1815-1865 by Norman Gash

Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: Impact and Images of the Industrial Revolution by Asa Briggs

Stephen Toulmin, The Charm of the Scout

Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity by Gregory Bateson

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Letters

Maureen Bloomfield, Denis Donoghue, Reading in Circles
Dieter E. Zimmer, Bruce Chatwin, The Call of Nature
Carl N. Degler, Clifford Geertz, Sociosexology
Betty Underwood, Francine Gray, The Moonies
Timothy Miller, The Moonies
Ezra F. Vogel, Tetsuo Najita, Disappointed

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)

Charles Rycroft is a psychoanalyst practicing in London. His books include A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety and Neurosis, The Innocence of Dreams, and Psychoanalysis and Beyond. (May 1997)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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