Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 18 · November 7, 1991

Alan Ryan, Do-Gooders

Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb

John Bayley, In Which We Serve

Master and Commander

Post Captain

HMS Surprise

The Mauritius Command

Desolation Island

The Fortune of War

The Surgeon's Mate

The Ionian Mission

Treason's Harbour

The Far Side of the World

The Reverse of the Medal

The Letter of Marque

The Thirteen-Gun Salute

The Nutmeg of Consolation

James M. McPherson, How Noble Was Robert E. Lee?

Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History by Alan T. Nolan

Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868 by Brooks D. Simpson

The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster

Scott MacLeod, Inside the PLO

Jack Flam, The Enigma of Georges Seurat

Seurat: 1859–1891 24, 1991–January 12, 1992 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York September

Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impressionism, including the first English edition of 'From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism' by Paul Signac by Floyd Ratliff, Signac text translated by Willa Silverman

Seurat: 1859–1891 catalog of the exhibition by Robert L. Herbert, with contributions by Françoise Cachin, by Anne Distel, by Susan Alyson Stein, by Gary Tinterow

Seurat by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, translated by Jean-Marie Clarke

Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes by Ellen Wardwell Lee

E.A.J. Honigmann, The Second-Best Bed

Gordon A. Craig, The Big Apfel

German Encounters with Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin by Katherine Roper

Berlin: Culture and Metropolis edited by Charles W. Haxthausen, edited by Heidrun Suhr

Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737–1989 by Alan Balfour

Battleground Berlin: Diaries, 1945–1948 by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, translated by Anna Boerresen

Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student's Diary with Sketches by Hsi-Huey Liang

Up Against It: Photographs of the Berlin Wall by Leland Rice

Berlin Journal, 1989–1990 by Robert Darnton

After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin by John Borneman

Anthony Quinton, Idealists Against the Jews

Revolutionary Antisemitism In Germany From Kant to Wagner by Paul Lawrence Rose

Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Clarence Thomas

James Fallows, The Romance with Mexico

The New North American Order: A Win-Win Strategy for US-Mexico Trade by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., by Robert B. Cohen, with Peter A. Morici, by Alan Tonelson

The Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth: The Labor Cost-Productivity Imbalance in Newly Industrialized Countries by Walter Russell Mead

US Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal by Jeff Faux, by William Spriggs

Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Administration's Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico by Jeff Faux, by Richard Rothstein

The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy after the Cold War by Robert Kuttner

Robert O. Paxton, Tricks of Memory

The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Murray Kempton, The Back of the Bus

Peter B. Reddaway, The End of the Empire

The Awakening of the Soviet Union by Geoffrey Hosking

The USSR's Emerging Multiparty System by Vera Tolz, foreword by S. Frederick Starr

Glasnost in Jeopardy: Human Rights in the USSR by Helsinki Watch/Human Rights Watch

Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by Dusko Doder, by Louise Branson

Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His Failure by Robert G. Kaiser

The Second Russian Revolution Channel by Brian Lapping Associates a documentary series made for BBC Television and the Discovery, produced by Norma Percy

Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform by Anders Aslund

What Went Wrong with Perestroika. by Marshall I. Goldman

Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era by Stephen Kotkin

Comrade Lawyer: Inside Soviet Justice in an Era of Reform by Robert Rand

Gorbachev, Glasnost & the Gospel by Michael Bourdeaux

Inside the KGB: My Life in Soviet Espionage by Vladimir Kuzichkin, translated by Thomas B. Beattie

'Gorbachev's Endgame' by Jerry F. Hough

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Letters

James C. Thomson, Jonathan Mirsky, China Perceived
Augusta Dwyer, Kenneth Maxwell, Was Tavora There?
Rudolf Peierls, Kurt Gottfried Hans Bethe, The Nuclear Threat
Marvin M. Miller, The Nuclear Threat
David Jones, Aryeh Neier, et al. Oxfam Unaffiliated

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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)

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."

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

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.

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)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)

Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

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