Table of Contents

Volume 45, Number 13 · August 13, 1998

Lars-Erik Nelson, Whatever Happened to Whitewater?

Arkansas Mischief: The Birth of a National Scandal by Jim McDougal, by Curtis Wilkie

Friends in High Places: Our Journey from Little Rock to Washington, D.C. by Webb Hubbell

Henry Kamm, The Cambodian Calamity

Gordon A. Craig, The Good, the Bad & the Bourgeois

Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism by Carl E. Schorske

Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by Peter Gay

Jorge Luis Borges, The Rose of Paracelsus

Anthony Lewis, The Case of Lani Guinier

Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice by Lani Guinier

Fintan O'Toole, The Masked Avenger

Four Plays by Wallace Shawn

The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn

John Banville, The Last Days of Nietzsche

Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography by Lesley Chamberlain

Jonathan Mirsky, Democratic Vistas?

China's Transition by Andrew J. Nathan

Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties by Bruce J. Dickson

The Political Economy of Corruption in China by Julia Kwong

Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China by Dali L. Yang

Garry Wills, How Odd of God

Jews: The Essence and Character of a People by Arthur Hertzberg, by Aron Hirt-Manheimer

The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century Schuster. by Alan M. Dershowitz

Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century by Samuel C. Heilman

Witold Rybczynski, Partner in the Park

Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux by Francis R. Kowsky

Whitney Balliett, Swing King

Benny Goodman: The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings

Charlie Christian

The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman, 1944-1955

Margaret Scott, Indonesia Reborn?

Thomas R. Edwards, The Gang's All Here

The Half-life of Happiness by John Casey

James Fenton, A Room of One's Own

The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy by Dora Thornton

Tony Judt, Counsels on Foreign Relations

A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency by William Bundy

James E. Hall, Elaine Scarry, TWA 800: A Second Exchange



Contributors

Whitney Balliett's most recent book is Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954—2001 (August 2003).

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

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)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Henry Kamm was senior foreign correspondent for The New York Times for many years and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for his reporting from Indochina. His new book, Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land, from which the article in this issue was drawn, has just been published. (August 1998)

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times , has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (September 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.

Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)

Margaret Scott, formerly the Cultural Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, is a writer specializing in Asia. (August 1998)

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.


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