Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 5 · March 30, 1989

Roger Shattuck, The Reddening of America

A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul

Andrew Hacker, Do We Have What It Takes?

More Like Us: Making America Great Again by James Fallows

Garry Wills, The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment

The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators by Hugh Honour

The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2, Black Models and White Myths by Hugh Honour

Neal Ascherson, Inside the Whale

The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places by Nadine Gordimer, edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman

The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside by Stephen R. Clingman

Gordon A. Craig, Dangerous Liaisons

Der Teufelspakt: Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg by Sebastian Haffner

Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance by Steven Merritt Miner

The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939–1941 by Anthony Read, by David Fisher

Robert M. Adams, Software Wars

Hence by Brad Leithauser

Michael Massing, Desperate Over Drugs

The Pizza Connection: Lawyers, Money, Drugs, Mafia by Shana Alexander

Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel—An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption by Guy Gugliotta, by Jeff Leen

The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto MD.

Drug Abuse Prevention: Further Efforts Needed to Identify Programs That Work

White Rabbit: A Doctor's Story of Her Addiction and Recovery by Martha Morrison MD.

Desperadoes: Latin Drug Lords, US Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win by Elaine Shannon

Sealing the Borders: The Effects of Increased Military Participation in Drug Interdiction by Peter Reuter, by Gordon Crawford, by Jonathan Cave

The Cocaine Wars by Paul Eddy, with Hugo Sabogal, by Sara Walden

Nicholas Lemann, Confidence Boy

The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle by Richard F. Fenno Jr.

David Brion Davis, The Ends of Slavery

Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman. transcribed for the first time from the original 1790 manuscript, edited by Richard Price, by Sally Price

The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 by Robin Blackburn

The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality by George M. Fredrickson

Denis Donoghue, The Revel's Ended

Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess

Abraham Brumberg, Moscow: The Struggle for Reform

Hans Walter Gabler, Alistair McCleery, John Kidd, et al. The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters

Murray Kempton, A Tale of Two Governments

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Letters

Menahem Fogel, Avishai Margalit, 'The Kitsch of Israel'
Samuel Z. Klausner, Israel's Riot Control

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

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)

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)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

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.

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

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

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)

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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