Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 16 · October 23, 1997
Russell Baker, Feud 
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection edited by David M. Barrett
Janet Malcolm, It Happened in Milwaukee
Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop
Martin Filler, Fantasia
Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room by Robert Venturi
Larry McMurtry, Broken Promises
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic by Angie Debo
Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place by Angie Debo
A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo
The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians by Angie Debo
And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes by Angie Debo
Richard C. Lewontin, The Confusion over Cloning
Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
William Pfaff, Eugenics, Anyone?
Garry Wills, Terror in a Small Town
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas
Roderick MacFarquhar, India: The Imprint of Empire
James Fenton, Going Half the Way
O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane edited by Langdon Hammer, by Brom Weber
James M. McPherson, The Heart of the Matter
Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War by Michael A. Morrison
The Confederate War by Gary W. Gallagher
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War by Maury Klein
Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy by Charles W. Ramsdell
Alison Lurie, Bothered and Bewildered
Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft by Robin Briggs
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss
Thomas Flanagan, Family Secrets
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Richard Jenkyns, Lady Charlotte's Bulls
From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School by John Malcolm Russell
Thomas Powers, The Bloodless War
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War by David E. Murphy, by Sergei A. Kondrashev, by George Bailey
Alicia Ostriker, Drunk with Love
The Song of Songs: A New Translation with an Introduction and Commentary by Ariel Bloch, by Chana Bloch, afterword by Robert Alter
George M. Fredrickson, America's Caste System: Will It Change?
Liberal Racism by Jim Sleeper
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom, by Abigail Thernstrom
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler
The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis by Orlando Patterson
Michael S. Thompson, Theodore H. Draper, 'Is the CIA Necessary?': An Exchange
Letters
Sherrill W. Britton, Congratulations!
Regina E. Herzlinger, Andrew Hacker, Market-Driven Health Care
Contributors
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (November 2008)
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).
George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)
Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
Alison Lurie is a former professor of English at Cornell and the author of nine novels and several books of nonfiction, including The Language of Clothes. Her review in this issue is from a work in progress on the language of houses and other buildings. (December 2008)
Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, written with Michael Schoenhals, is Mao’s Last Revolution. (June 2007)
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)
Alicia Ostriker is the author of The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions and Feminist Revision and the Bible. (October 1997)
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
