Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 19 · December 6, 1984

Stephen Toulmin, The Evolution of Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard

With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson

Michael Wood, A Traveling Man

D.W. Griffith: An American Life by Richard Schickel

Oliver Taplin, Difficult Daughter

Antigones by George Steiner

Richard M. Morse, Embarrassing Colony

Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment by Raymond Carr

Robert Hughes, On Art and Money

George M. Fredrickson, Panic in the South

The Crucible of Race: Black–White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation by Joel Williamson

Brigid Brophy, Sons and Lovers

H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West

Robert Towers, Light and Lively

Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino

Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories by E.L. Doctorow

R.C. Smail, Parfit Gentil Knights

Chivalry by Maurice Keen

Alistair Horne, King in a Corner

Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War by Tony Hodges

Bernard Avishai, Israel: The Divisions of 'Unity'

Jerzy Popieluszko, 'I Am Prepared for Anything'

Elmer A. Benson, Robert Claiborne, Hal Draper, American Communism: An Exchange

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Letters

Samuel Farber, In a Cuban Prison
Ellen Handler Spitz, Leo Steinberg, Shrinking Michelangelo
Bernard Knox, The Editors, Shrinking Michelangelo
Gabriele Annan, Correction
Richard J. Bernstein, Norman Birnbaum, et al. Crackdown in Yugoslavia

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Contributors

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Alistair Horne was educated in Switzerland, at Millbrook School, New York, and at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played international ice hockey. In World War II, initially a volunteer in the RAF, he served with the Coldstream Guards between 1944 and 1947, ending as a captain attached to MI5 in the Middle East. In the 1950s he was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph until taking up a full-time writing career in 1955.

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn–?t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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