Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 13 · August 14, 1997

Louis Menand, Inside the Billway

Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich

Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America by Elizabeth Drew

Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, Grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House by Michael Lewis

Timothy Garton Ash, The Curse and Blessing of South Africa

Geoffrey O'Brien, Sein of the Times

Seinfeld: a television series by Jerry Seinfeld, by Larry David

Rosemary Dinnage, Out of the Ruins

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Theodore H. Draper, Is the CIA Necessary?

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala 1952-1954 Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C. by Nicholas Cullather. History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central

CIA and Guatemala Assassination Proposals 1952-1954 by Gerald K. Haines. CIA History Staff Analysis

Secrecy: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy Chairmen: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Larry Combest

Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs by Richard M. Bissell Jr.

Joan Acocella, 'Sweet as a Fig'

Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh

Ian Buruma, Selling Out Hong Kong

Misha Glenny, Heart of Darkness

Gordon S. Wood, Dusting Off the Declaration

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier

Jeff Madrick, In the Shadows of Prosperity

Money: Who Has How Much and Why by Andrew Hacker

Derek Walcott, A Letter to Chamoiseau

Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau, translated by Rose-Myriam Réjouis, translated by Val Vinokurov

Anthony Grafton, Hello to Berlin

The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian Ladd

Reading Berlin 1900 by Peter Fritzsche

The Writing on the Walls: Projections in Berlin's Jewish Quarter by Shimon Attie

George Grosz: Berlin-New York edited by Peter-Klaus Schuster

The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930 by Frank Whitford

Adolph Menzel (1815-1905): Between Romanticism and Impressionism edited by Claude Keisch, edited by Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher

Berlin: The City and the Court Smith. by Jules Laforgue

James Lardner, Can You Believe the New York Miracle?

Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling, by Catherine M. Coles

Caroline Fraser, The Revenge of Everest

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Daniel C. Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, 'Darwinian Fundamentalism': An Exchange

Caroline Fraser, The Revenge of Everest

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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Letters

Mary R. Lefkowitz, It Was Agamemnon
Herbert R. Lottman, Nocamus

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Contributors

Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

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)

Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.

James Lardner is a senior fellow at Demos, a center for public policy based in New York City. He is the co-editor of Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences and co-editor of Inequality.org. (June 2007)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Director of Policy Research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. (March 2008)

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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