Table of Contents

Volume 33, Number 2 · February 13, 1986

George F. Kennan, A New Philosophy of Defense

Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-based Deterrence and Defence by Gene Sharp

David Brion Davis, American Jeremiah

Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography by Richard Wightman Fox

John Keegan, The Awful Fate of Frederick the Great

The Military Life of Frederick the Great by Christopher Duffy

Brad Leithauser, Poet for a Dark Age

A Summoning of Stones by Anthony Hecht

The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht

Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht

The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht

Robert I. Friedman, The Sayings of Rabbi Kahane

J.M. Cameron, The Historical Jesus

Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan

Nadine Gordimer, Norman Mailer, 'The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State' Two Views

Robert M. Adams, Jane Austen in Japan

Robert Craft, A New Year Roundup

Vidal in Venice by Gore Vidal, edited by George Armstrong, photographs by Tore Gill

Jean Cocteau and the French Scene edited and with a preface by Arthur King Peters

Tchaikovsky's Ballets by Roland John Wiley

Arnold Schoenberg–Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and Documents edited by Jelena Hahl-Koch, translated by John C. Crawford

T.S. Eliot An anniversary issue of The Southern Review

Noel Annan, The Right Historical Stuff

F.W. Maitland by G.R. Elton

Murray Kempton, Keeping the Lid On

Four Failures: A Report on the UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights in Chile, Guatemala, Iran and Poland a report from Americas Watch, Asia Watch, and Helsinki Watch

Andrew Hacker, The Decline of Higher Learning

American Professors by Howard R. Bowen, by Jack H. Schuster

The American Academic Profession: A Synthesis of Social Scientific Inquiry Since World War II by Martin J. Finkelstein

None of the Above: Behind the Myth of Scholastic Aptitude by David Owen

Terminal Degrees: The Job Crisis in Higher Education by Emily K. Abel

Liberating Education by Zelda F. Gamson. associates

The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus by Billie Wright Dziech, by Linda Weiner

Mastering the Techniques of Teaching by Joseph Lowman

Selective Guide to Colleges by Edward B. Fiske

The Zero-Sum Solution: Building a World-Class American Economy by Lester C. Thurow

To Reclaim a Legacy by William J. Bennett

Integrity in the College Curriculum by Frederick Rudolph. others

Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education National Institute of Education

Jim Stone, Jonathan Glover, The Morality of Abortion: An Exchange

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Letters

Steven Becker, Jiri Dienstbier, et al. Protests on Nicaragua
Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Robert Winter, The Sound of Musicology

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

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

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)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest.

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