Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 12 · July 16, 1987

Alfred Kazin, Trachtenberg the Brain King

More Die Of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow

Eugenio Montale, Wind and Flags (poem)

Judith Shapiro, Surviving the Hurricane

Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng

Diane Johnson, Living Legends

A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer

Alan Brinkley, The Best Man

Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962 by Stephen E. Ambrose

Prudence Crowther, Knowing S.J. Perelman

Nicholas Lemann, Chance Missed

Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry by Robert Sam Anson

Joan Didion, Washington in Miami

Gordon A. Craig, Getting Along with Hitler

Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life by Detlev J.K. Peukert, translated by Richard Deveson

In Hitler's Germany: Daily Life in the Third Reich by Bernt Engelmann, translated by Krishna Winston

Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, The Family, and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz

Roger Shattuck, Mad About the Guy

The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and 'Madame Bovary' by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane

Felix Gilbert, Venetian Secrets

The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus Myth by Donald E. Queller

Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret L. King

Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans by Rona Goffen

Theodore H. Draper, American Hubris: From Truman to the Persian Gulf

Albert Boime, Henri Zerner, The Avant-Garde and the Academy: An Exchange

Boris I. Bittker, Joseph A. Pechman, Henning Gutmann, 'The Bad New Tax Law': An Exchange

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Letters

Claire Douglas, John Pope-Hennessy, On R. Langton Douglas
Erwin A. Glikes, Martha C. Nussbaum, Sexual Desire's Jacket
Robert Conquest, Peter Wiles, 'Harvest of Sorrow'
Nora Ephron, Bruce Jay Friedman, et al. The Farbar Case
Ewa Kuryluk, Let Dr. Nadgornyi Out
Robert Mezey, Robert Craft, Dickinson & Death

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Contributors

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Prudence Crowther is the copy chief at BusinessWeek. (April 2007)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

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)

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)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

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