Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 21 & 22 · January 19, 1989

Robert Darnton, What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?

John Bayley, Best and Worst

Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan

Ernst Gombrich, Distinguished Dissident

James J. Gibson and the Psychology of Perception by Edward S. Reed

James M. McPherson, The War of Southern Aggression

John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography by John Niven

Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder edited by Carol Bleser

Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860 by Lacy K. Ford Jr.

Lord Zuckerman, The Silver Fox

The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace by Strobe Talbott

Primo Levi, My House

Anthony Lewis, The Intimidated Press

David Freedberg, How Rembrandt Made It

Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market by Svetlana Alpers

Nathan Gardels, The Price China Has Paid: An Interview with Liu Binyan

Thomas R. Edwards, A Case of the American Jitters

Last Notes from Home by Frederick Exley

A Fan's Notes: A Fictional Memoir by Frederick Exley

Pages from a Cold Island by Frederick Exley

Theodore H. Draper, Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story

Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings by Senators William S. Cohen, by George J. Mitchell

Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North by Ben Bradlee Jr.

The Iranian Triangle: The Untold Story of Israel's Role in the Iran-Contra Affair by Samuel Segev, translated by Haim Watzman

Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair by Michael A. Ledeen

Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988 by Jane Mayer, by Doyle McManus

Garry Wills, Coriolanus Without Rome

Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, directed by Steven Berkoff

G.R. Elton, Scapegoats

The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany by R. Po-chia Hsia

Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines Quartet

V.S. Naipaul, A Turn in Atlanta

Philip Gaskell, Clive Hart, Roma Woodnutt, et al. The New 'Ulysses': Unanswered Questions

Murray Kempton, Gorbachev in Armenia

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Letters

Stephen Jay Gould, The Tragedy of Aids
Natalie Zemon Davis, Istvan Deak, et al. Razing Romania
Peter Ahrends, Hugh Honour, The National Gallery Competition
David S. Reynolds, Frederick C. Crews, Loading the Canon
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Michael Ignatieff, Heirs to Freud
Howard Stein, Charles Rosen, Vulcan's Net

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (April 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)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

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.

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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