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.
