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January 31, 1991 • Volume 38, Number 3

  • Stuart Hampshire

    ‘A Wonderful Life’ e-edition

    Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk

  • Peter B. Reddaway

    Empire on the Brink e-edition

  • Matthew Rutenberg

    The Charms of Deception e-edition

    Fake? The Art of Deception edited by Mark Jones

  • Ronald Dworkin

    The Right to Death e-edition

  • Patricia Storace

    Betrayals e-edition

    Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen

    Health and Happiness by Diane Johnson

  • V.S. Naipaul

    Our Universal Civilization e-edition

  • Gordon A. Craig

    The Reich Stuff e-edition

    Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa August–November 1990 an exhibition at the Deutsches Historische Museum, Berlin,

    Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa catalog of the exhibition

    Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. I: The Period of Unification, 1815–1871 by Otto Pflanze

    Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871–1880 by Otto Pflanze

    Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. III: The Period of Fortification, 1880–1898 by Otto Pflanze

    Bismarck: Das Reich in der Mitte Europas by Ernst Engelberg

  • Michael M. Thomas

    The Greatest American Shambles e-edition

    The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry by Martin Mayer

    Inside Job: The Looting of America’s Savings and Loans by Stephen Pizzo, by Mary Fricker, by Paul Muolo

    Bankers, Builders, Knaves and Thieves: The $300 Million Scam at ESM by Donald L. Maggin

    Who Robbed America? A Citizen’s Guide to the S&L Scandal by Michael Waldman, Introduction by Ralph Nader

    The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L by James O'Shea

    Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings by Michael A. Robinson

    The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Reevaluation by Lawrence J. White

  • Yuri Afanasyev,
    Antonina W. Bouis

    The Coming Dictatorship e-edition

  • Merle Goldman

    Brutality in China e-edition

  • Edmund S. Morgan

    Secrets of Benjamin Franklin e-edition

    Benjamin Franklin’s Science by Bernard Cohen

    Le Sceptre et la foudre: Franklin à Paris, 1776–1785 by Claude-Anne Lopez

    Mon Cher Papa: Franklin and the Ladies of Paris by Claude-Anne Lopez

    Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life by Ormond Seavey

    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 1–14 edited by Leonard W. Labaree

    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 15–26 edited by William B. Wilcox

    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 27 edited by Claude A. Lopez

    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 28 edited by Barbara B. Oberg

    Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It edited by Esmond Wright

    Writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by J.A. Leo Lemay

LETTERS

Contributors

Antonina W. Bouis translates works of fiction and nonfiction from the Russian, among her most recent translations are Edvard Radzinsky’s Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar and Marina Goldovskaya’s Woman with a Movie Camera.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.

Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004) was an English philosopher. He taught at University College London, Princeton, Stanford and Oxford, where he was named Warden of Wadham College. His books include Thought and Action, Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.

Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) was a philosopher. Educated at CUNY, The Jewish Theological Seminary and The University of Pennsylvania, Morgenbesser taught at Columbia, where he was named John Dewey Professor of Philosophy.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children’s book. She lives in New York.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

Peter B. Reddaway is Professor Emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.