Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 6 · April 12, 1984

Charles Rycroft, A Case of Hysteria

The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

V.S. Pritchett, The Solace of Intrigue

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Time After Time by Molly Keane

James Fallows, The Reagan Variety Show

The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington by Paul Craig Roberts

Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond by Herbert Stein

The Barbaric Counter-Revolution: Cause and Cure by W. W. Rostow

Robert M. Adams, The Joy and Malice of It All

Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne, revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., I'm the Greatest!

Mayor by Edward I. Koch, with William Rauch

Charles Rosen, The New Sound of Liszt

Franz Liszt: Volume 1, The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 by Alan Walker

Richard C. Lewontin, A Simple Problem Science Can't Solve

Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition by Vivian Gornick

Diane Johnson, Darn that Darning

Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America 1830–1870 by Karen Halttunen

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose

Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Kelley

The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America by Harvey Green

Natalya Viktorovna Helle, Vladimir Tolz, The Sakharovs in Gorky

Joseph Frank, The Master Linguist

Dialogues by Roman Jakobson, by Krystyna Pomorska

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Unheard Melodies

The Odes of John Keats by Helen Vendler

Andrew Hacker, The Schools Flunk Out

A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future by John I. Goodlad

Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer

High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America by Ernest L. Boyer

High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared by James S. Coleman, by Thomas Hoffer, by Sally Kilgore

A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform National Commission on Excellence in Education

Action for Excellence Task Force on Education for Economic Growth

Making the Grade Education Policy, background paper by Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Paul E. Peterson

Educating Americans for the 21st Century Mathematics, Science and Technology National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in

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Letters

Jozef Kasparek, Martin Malia, Poland's Past
Elisabeth Labrousse, Poland's Past
Alex Kurczaba, Poland's Past
Samuel Engle Burr, Gordon S. Wood, Apple Pie

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Contributors

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. He is the author of Dostoyevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881. (June 2008)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

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)

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)

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