Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 14 · September 23, 1982

C. Vann Woodward, Pennies from Heaven

Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and The Great Depression by Alan Brinkley

Gore Vidal, Monkey Business

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street by David McClintick

Harold Bloom, From Moses to Gilboa

The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse edited and translated by T. Carmi

Jason Epstein, Going for Broke

The Coming Boom: Economic, Political, and Social by Herman Kahn

The Imperious Economy by David P. Calleo

Alexander Cockburn, The Natural Artificer

P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances Donaldson

John Keegan, Pecking Orders

Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 by H.P. Willmott

From Conquest to Collapse: European Empires from 1815 to 1960 by V.G. Kiernan

The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late-Industrializing World Since 1815 by Tony Smith

War and Change in World Politics by Robert Gilpin

Ian Hacking, Why Are You Scared?

Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers by Mary Douglas, by Aaron Wildavsky

Acceptable Risk by Baruch Fischhoff, by Sarah Lichtenstein, by Paul Slovic, by Steven L. Derby, by Ralph L. Keeney

Helen Vendler, The Creeping Griffon

Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser

Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982 by Jack Gilbert

Wilfrid Sheed, Reds

The Red Smith Reader edited by Dave Anderson

Late Innings: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell

To Absent Friends from Red Smith by Red Smith

1947—When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball by Red Barber

Neal Ascherson, That Old Czech Magic

The Questionnaire, or Prayer for a Town and a Friend by Jirí Grusa, translated by Peter Kussi

Craig Hugh Smyth, Bronzino Returns

Bronzino by Charles McCorquodale

Raymond Carr, Purity and Danger

The Anarchists of Casas Viejas by Jerome R. Mintz

J.M. Cameron, Speaking of the Unspeakable

Religion: If there is no God... On God, the Devil, Sin and other Worries of the so-called Philosophy of Religion by Leszek Kolakowski

Bernard Knox, Classic Classicists

History of Classical Scholarship by U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, translated by Alan Harris, edited with an introduction and notes by Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Aron M. Bernstein, Daniel B. Kaplan, Rudolf Peierls, et al. 'How Not to Think About Nuclear War': An Exchange

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Letters

John Holm, Jerome S. Bruner, et al. Roots of Creole
Robert Rosenblum, Charles Rosen, et al. Neo-Con Art
Bruce Majors, Post-Conservative America
Robert W. Whitaker, Post-Conservative America
William Brandenburg, Kevin Phillips, Post-Conservative America
Daniel Weissbort, David McDuff, Battle over Translation
Robert A. Pugsley, Graham Hughes, Prisons & Punishment
Martin Wenglingsky, M.F. Burnyeat, Heraclitus' Home Truths
Patrick Clawson, Firuz Kazemzadeh, The Bahais
J.B. Trapp, Frances Yates Fellowship
Paul Loeb, Roger Sale, Nuclear City
Marion Boyars, 'Stargazer' Available
Jerome C. Weeks, Robert Mazzocco, Cherry Pie
B.L. Lewis, Credit
Hamid Algar, Khomeini's Mind

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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.
(July 2009)

Harold Bloom's forthcoming books are Living Labyrinth: Literature and Influence and Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems. He teaches at Yale. (December 2009)

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House. He is chairman of On Demand Books, maker of the Espresso Book Machine. His latest book, Eating: A Memoir, will be published in October. (August 2009)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)

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

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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