Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 6 · April 12, 1990

J.M. Cameron, The Trials of C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson

Felix G. Rohatyn, Becoming What They Think We Are

John Higham, The Pot that Didn't Melt

The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History by Arthur Hertzberg

Philip Roth, A Conversation in Prague

Joseph Connors, Marble and Marzipan

Roman Baroque Sculpture: The Industry of Art by Jennifer Montagu

Julia Preston, The Defeat of the Sandinistas

Peter Jenkins, Mrs. Thatcher's Last Stand?

The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher by Hugo Young

The Thatcher Decade by Peter Riddell

James M. McPherson, Wartime

Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers by Joseph T. Glatthaar

Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War by Michael Fellman

The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War by Iver Bernstein

Quentin Skinner, The Past in the Present

Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen Toulmin

Jonathan D. Spence, A Picaresque Hero

The Travels of Mendes Pinto by Fernão Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz

Ian Buruma, The Last Days of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Voices edited by Gerd Balke, with an introduction by Anthony Lawrence

Kowtow! by William Shawcross

City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future by Kevin Rafferty

Hong Kong Countdown by George Hicks

Jean Starobinski, Rousseau in the Revolution

Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution by Carol Blum

A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by François Furet, edited by Mona Ozouf

La Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen by Stéphane Rials

L'An I des droits de l'homme by A de Baecque, by L.M. Vovelle, by W. Schmale

Les Déclarations des droits de l'homme et du citoyen by Christine Fauré

The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, Volume II: The Political Culture of the Revolution edited by Colin Lucas

La Révolution des droits de l'homme by Marcel Gauchet

Marilynne Robinson, M.F. Perutz, 'Mother Country': An Exchange

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Letters

Lydia Chukovskaya, John Russell, 'To the Memory of Childhood'
Tariq Ali, Eric Ambler, et al. Help Salman Rushdie!
Sidney Thomas, In Stalag Viia
Matei Calinescu, Thomas G. Pavel, et al. Ceausescu's Way
Barbara Ehrenreich, James Fallows, The Middle Class
Evgeny Averin, Remembering Sakharov

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.

John Higham is Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and the editor of Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black—White Relations Since World War II, which has just been published. (November 1997)

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)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)

Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)

Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)

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