| Prisoners of Liberation | 2 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Memo of the Month | 17 |
| The Seductions of Washington Society | 18 |
| Fallows, James | |
| the political puzzle | 25 |
| Barclay, John | |
| A Kind Word for the Spoils System | 26 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Tidbits Outrages | 30 |
| Why the Sun Will Never Set on the Federal Empire | 32 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| The Foreign Policy C1ub:They've Been Wrong Before and They'll Be Wrong Again | 42 |
| Morris, Roger | |
| The Final Days of the Third Reich As Told To Woodward and Bernstein | 48 |
| Levine, Arthur | |
| Maybe We Should Help Pan Am | 53 |
| Hopkins, George | |
| political book notes | 62 |
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