Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 10 · June 11, 1987

Felix G. Rohatyn, On the Brink

C. Vann Woodward, The New New South

Politics and Society in the South by Earl Black, by Merle Black

Ian Buruma, St. Cory and the Evil Rose

Imelda Marcos by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa

Cory Aquino: The Story of a Revolution by Lucy Komisar

Joan Didion, Miami: 'La Lucha'

Alison Lurie, True Confessions

How I Grew by Mary McCarthy

Leonard Thompson, Before the Revolution

King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of South Africa by William Minter

The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa by Ronald T. Libby

South Africa: Time of Agony, Time of Destiny by Martin Murray

Black and Gold by Anthony Sampson

Gabriele Annan, A Family Fortune

The Afternoon Sun by David Pryce-Jones

Lincoln Kirstein, The Monstrous Itch

Private Domain by Paul Taylor

Bernard Williams, Leviathan's Program

The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky

Yasser Arafat, Scott MacLeod, An Interview with Yasser Arafat

J.H. Elliott, A Question of Upbringing?

Anne Boleyn by Eric W. Ives

Louis XIII: The Making of a King by Elizabeth Wirth Marvick

Anne of Austria: Queen of France by Ruth Kleinman

Timothy Garton Ash, From World War to Cold War

Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War 1945–46 by Hugh Thomas

British Policy Towards the Soviet Union During the Second World War by Martin Kitchen

The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War by Fraser J. Harbutt

Elliott Currie, Richard J. Herrnstein, Christopher Jencks, Genes and Crime: An Exchange


Letters

David C. Acheson, The Trouble in Space
E.L. Doctorow, John Irving, et al. War Victims
Marek Adamkiewicz, Ludmilla Alexeyeva, et al. Against Loans to Chile



Contributors

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

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He has just published a new volume of essays, Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800. (August 2009)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
 (December 2009)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

Leonard Thompson is Charles J. Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His books include The Political Mythology of Apartheid and A History of South Africa. (May 1998)

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)

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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