Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 21 & 22 · January 21, 1982

Alfred Kazin, The Father of Us All

Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen

George F. Kennan, On Nuclear War

Dido in Love (poem)

John Richardson, The Mantle of Munchausen

King of the Confessors by Thomas Hoving

Vickie Karp, How Peace, after Asking Its Question, Becomes War (poem)

Felix G. Rohatyn, New York and the Nation

Michael Wood, One Mo' Time

Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell

John M. Crewdson, How Not to Crack the Silkwood Case

Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Howard Kohn

Richard Ellmann, Neither Here Nor There

Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme

Tom J. Farer, The Making of Reaganism

The Hidden Election: Politics and Economics in the 1980 Presidential Campaign edited by Joel Rogers, edited by Thomas Ferguson

Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign by Elizabeth Drew

Jonathan Raban, Now, Voyager

Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey by Gavin Young

Murray Kempton, Bombs Away

Growing Up Underground by Jane Alpert

James Wolcott, More Kicks than Pricks

Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Marvin Mudrick

V.S. Pritchett, Appalachian Spring

P.B. Medawar, Calling Dr. Cooper

The Vital Probe: My Life as a Brain Surgeon by I.S. Cooper

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Guide Rouge

Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France by Régis Debray, translated by David Macey

Felix Gilbert, The Medici Megalopolis

Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard C. Trexler

The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence by Samuel Kline Cohn Jr

The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History by Richard A. Goldthwaite

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Letters

Andrei D. Sakharov, Letter to My Foreign Colleagues
Michael Howard, An Incredible Strategy
Stanislaw Baranczak, Joseph Brodsky, et al. The Polish Crisis: Three Statements
Robert Gordis, J.M. Cameron, Credit for Micah
Samuel H. Preston, Christopher Jencks, Birth & Fortune
E.J. Beigel, Dulles and Eisenhower
John P. Harrington, Denis Donoghue, Hunger Strikers
Robert Farrell, Martin Gardner, Facing Up to Realism
John B. Anderson, Ronald Steel, Dulles and Eisenhower

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Contributors

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)

Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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