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
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Daniel C. Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, 'Darwinian Fundamentalism': An Exchange
Letters
Mary R. Lefkowitz, It Was Agamemnon
Herbert R. Lottman, Nocamus
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 the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 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 books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
(December 2009)
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 Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His latest book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (November 2009)
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. (September 2009)
Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. His latest collection of poems, White Egrets, will be published next year. (November 2009)
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)
