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Volume 47, Number 16 · October 19, 2000

Lars-Erik Nelson, Gore in the Balance

Inventing Al Gore by Bill Turque

The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore by David Maraniss, by Ellen Nakashima

In Praise of Public Life by Joseph I. Lieberman, with Michael D'Orso

Charles Simic, Working for the Dictionary

Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky, edited by Ann Kjellberg

Robert Cottrell, Mr. Bigsky

Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia by Paul Klebnikov

Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism by Chrystia Freeland

James Traub, The Desert Prince

Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani by Wayne Barrett, with Adam Fifield

Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City by Andrew Kirtzman

Diane Johnson, The Best Men?

The Golden Age by Gore Vidal

Pankaj Mishra, Kashmir: The Unending War

Edmund S. Morgan, In Love with Guns

Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles

John Updike, Dancing to His Own Tune

Benjamin M. Friedman, Gore vs. Bush: The Difference

Howard Gardner, Paroxysms of Choice

Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education by Chester E. Finn Jr., by Bruce V. Manno, by Gregg Vanourek

When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale by Edward B. Fiske, by Helen F. Ladd

Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization edited by Bruce Fuller

A Legacy of Learning: Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools by David T. Kearns, by James Harvey. with a foreword by George Bush

The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program by John F. Witte

Joyce Carol Oates, The Fatal Shore

The Shark Net:Memories and Murder by Robert Drewe

John Weightman, Death on the Installment Plan

The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan

Isaiah Berlin, The Arts in Russia Under Stalin

Tom Stoppard, Daniel Mendelsohn, On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange

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Letters

Paul Trewhela, Mbeki and Aids in Africa: A Comment
Paul Lawrence Rose, Thomas Powers, Heisenberg in Copenhagen
Michael Isikoff, Anthony Lewis, 'A Vast Conspiracy'
George Eisen, Istvan Deak, Duels in the Sunshine
J.G.A. Pocock, Gordon S. Wood, Machiavellian Moments
Vincent Crapanzano, 'Serving the Word'
Israel Rosenfield, Slowing Down the Film
Jay Neugeboren, It Was Mephistopheles

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Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (March 2008)

Howard Gardner teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His most recent book, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, is Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. (April 2002)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)

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

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. She is the editor, with Christopher Beha, of the forthcoming Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. (September 2008)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.

James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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