Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 3 · January 31, 1991

Stuart Hampshire, 'A Wonderful Life'

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk

Peter B. Reddaway, Empire on the Brink

Matthew Rutenberg, The Charms of Deception

Fake? The Art of Deception edited by Mark Jones

Ronald Dworkin, The Right to Death

Patricia Storace, Betrayals

Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen

Health and Happiness by Diane Johnson

V.S. Naipaul, Our Universal Civilization

Gordon A. Craig, The Reich Stuff

Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa August–November 1990 an exhibition at the Deutsches Historische Museum, Berlin,

Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa catalog of the exhibition

Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. I: The Period of Unification, 1815–1871 by Otto Pflanze

Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871–1880 by Otto Pflanze

Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. III: The Period of Fortification, 1880–1898 by Otto Pflanze

Bismarck: Das Reich in der Mitte Europas by Ernst Engelberg

Michael M. Thomas, The Greatest American Shambles

The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry by Martin Mayer

Bankers, Builders, Knaves and Thieves: The $300 Million Scam at ESM by Donald L. Maggin

The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L by James O'Shea

The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Reevaluation by Lawrence J. White

Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings by Michael A. Robinson

Who Robbed America? A Citizen's Guide to the S&L Scandal by Michael Waldman, Introduction by Ralph Nader

Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans by Stephen Pizzo, by Mary Fricker, by Paul Muolo

Yuri Afanasyev, The Coming Dictatorship

Merle Goldman, Brutality in China

Edmund S. Morgan, Secrets of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's Science by Bernard Cohen

Le Sceptre et la foudre: Franklin à Paris, 1776–1785 by Claude-Anne Lopez

Mon Cher Papa: Franklin and the Ladies of Paris by Claude-Anne Lopez

Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life by Ormond Seavey

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 1–14 edited by Leonard W. Labaree

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 15–26 edited by William B. Wilcox

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 27 edited by Claude A. Lopez

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 28 edited by Barbara B. Oberg

Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It edited by Esmond Wright

Writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by J.A. Leo Lemay

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Letters

Alan Geller, It's Reagan's Fault
Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Lieberson Prize
Leon Wieseltier, Marie Syrkin Fellowship
Stasys Lozoraitis, Istvan Deak, Lithuania and the Jews

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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)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 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.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.

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