| Concerns About Carter-And His Chief Courtier | 2 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Off-Off-Broadway Has Lessons For Us All | 9 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| The Case Against Day Care | 22 |
| Boyd, Marjorie | |
| Tidbits and Outrages | 32 |
| How To Break the Ties That Bind Congress To the Lobbies and Agencies | 36 |
| Nelson, Michael | |
| No Place To Go | 42 |
| Etzioni, Amitai | |
| Memo of the Month | 49 |
| The Truth at Last: How Nixon Beat Humphrey | 50 |
| Howe, Russell Warren & Trott, Sarah Hays | |
| How the Condor Was Killed | 54 |
| Rushford, Greg | |
| The Polotical Puzzle | 61 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Political Book Notes | 62 |
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