Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 8 · May 12, 1988

Alison Lurie, The Woman Who Rode Away

Trust Me: Short Stories by John Updike

S. by John Updike

Paul Kennedy, Not So Grand Strategy

Discriminate Deterrence: Report of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy co-chaired by Fred C. Iklé, by Albert Wohlstetter

M.F. Perutz, Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man

The Statue Within: An Autobiography by François Jacob, translated by Franklin Philip

Jasper Griffin, 'Here was a Caesar!'

The Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, A Reconstruction by Arthur D. Kahn

Caesar by Christian Meier

Stanley Hoffmann, Neither Hope nor Glory

Au Revoir Les Enfants a film directed by Louis Malle, screenplay by Louis Malle

C. Vann Woodward, Unfinished Business

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 by Eric Foner

Elaine H. Pagels, The Politics of Paradise

E.J. Hobsbawm, The Caruso of Jazz

Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz by John Chilton

Jazz Odyssey: The Autobiography of Joe Darensbourg as told to Peter Vacher

Gordon A. Craig, Rahel's 'Jewish Sofa'

Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin by Deborah Hertz

Jettchen Gebert by Georg Hermann, edited by Dr. Bernhard Kaufhold

John Kenneth Galbraith, Big Shots

Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump, by Tony Schwartz

Boone by T. Boone Pickens Jr.

Merger Mania: Arbitrage, Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret by Ivan F. Boesky

Behind the Scenes: In Which the Author Talks About Ronald and Nancy Reagan…and Himself by Michael K. Deaver, with Mickey Herskowitz

Michael Kazin, The Historian as Populist

Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class by Herbert G. Gutman, edited by Ira Berlin

Michael Massing, Who Are the Sandinistas?

Murray Kempton, Les Misérables in New York

Anthony M. Solomon, Felix G. Rohatyn, 'Restoring American Independence': An Exchange

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Letters

Gabriel Austin, Denis Donoghue, 'Vain Fortune'
Sidney Hook, M.F. Burnyeat, 'Cultural Philistine'
Philip Taylor, Martin Gardner, The Michelson-Morley Experiment
Paul N. Siegel, Marilyn Vogt-Downey, Moscow Trials Victims

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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)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.

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.

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)

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

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

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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