Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 2 · February 14, 1985

C. Vann Woodward, The Free 'Brown' Slaveholders

Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South by Michael P. Johnson, by James L. Roark

No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War edited by Michael P. Johnson, edited by James L. Roark

Gabriele Annan, Girl from Berlin

Marlene Dietrich's ABC

Marlène D. by Marlene Dietrich

Sublime Marlene by Thierry de Navacelle

Marlene Dietrich: Portraits 1926–1960 introduction by Klaus-Jürgen Sembach, epilogue by Josef von Sternberg

Dietrich by Alexander Walker

Marlene a film directed by Maximilian Schell, produced by Karel Dirka

Lester C. Thurow, How to Get Out of the Economic Rut

The Share Economy: Conquering Stagflation by Martin L. Weitzman

The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity by Michael J. Piore, by Charles F. Sabel

E.J. Hobsbawm, Robin Hoodo

The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

Robert O. Paxton, 'The Last King of France'

Pétain: Hero or Traitor, The Untold Story by Herbert R. Lottman

Theodore H. Draper, Pie in the Sky

Mary McCarthy, The Unresigned Man

Leo Marx, All in the Family

Hawthorne's Secret: An Un-Told Tale by Philip Young

W.V. Quine, Four Hot Questions in Philosophy

Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties (The Woodbridge Lectures 1983) by P.F. Strawson

Martin Gilbert, The Big Two

Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence Vol. I, Alliance Emerging Vol. II, Alliance Forged Vol. III, Alliance Declining edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball

Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence Vol. II, Alliance Forged edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball

Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence Vol. III, Alliance Declining edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball

Geoffrey Barraclough, Date Palms and Elephant Tusks

Cross-cultural Trade in World History by Philip D. Curtin

D.P. Walker, The Faith of a Skeptic

Montaigne and Melancholy by M.A. Screech

Grover Rees, Ronald Dworkin, Reagan's Justice: An Exchange

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Letters

Hans A. Bethe, Richard L. Garwin, et al. Why Star Wars Is Dangerous and Won't Work
Irma Brandeis, D.S. Carne-Ross, Shall We Dante?
Frank Kermode, A Passage to Cambridge
John T. Noonan, It's Love

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)

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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