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THE SOFTCOVER EVOLUTION BY BARRY GEWEN The paperback book, as we know it, originally appeared in bookstores and on newsstands in New York City in June 1939, when the Pocket Books Company issued...
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On Native Greats_ An American Procession By Alfred Kazin Knopf. 408 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University This is a magnificent study...
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Unearned Pessimism Democracy By Joan Didion Simon & Schuster. 234 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Isa Kapp The steady drizzle of bitter memories in this novel keeps directing the reader to "one night...
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The Patient in Number 13 The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka By Ernest Pawel Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 480pp. $25.50. Reviewed by John Simon Turn of-the-century Prague was, despite some...
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Losing Substance The Unbearable Lightness of Being By Milan Kundera Harper & Row. 320pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg Contributor, "Partisan Review," New York "Times Book Review" Milan...
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On Poetry VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Alfred Corn's fourth book of verse, Notes from a Child of Paradise (Viking, 107pp., $14.95), recounts the poet's courtship, marriage and...
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False Praise of Eisenhower Who Killed Joe McCarthy? By William Bragg Ewald Jr. Simon & Schuster. 399pp. $17.95. Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky Professor of History, Rutgers; author, "A Conspiracy...
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Labor's Social Value What Do Unions Do? By Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff Basic Books. 293pp. $22.95. Reviewed by A.H. Raskin Former chief labor correspondent, the New York "Times";...
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The New Case for Israel From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine By Joan Peters Harper and Row. 601 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Martin Kramer Department of Middle...
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A Clanging Alarm Bell The Power to Lead: The Crisis of the American Presidency By James MacGregor Burns Simon & Schuster. 288 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of History,...
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Roosevelt as Reluctant Reformer America 1929-1941: The Great Depression By Robert S. McElvaine Times Books. 402 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This exceptionally well-written...
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Purgative for Powell_ The Other Side of the Story By Jody Powell Morrow. 322 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Daniel Schorr Correspondent, Cable News Network "How do you respond to those who say your...
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Beyond Body Counts_ Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies By Charles Perrow Basic Books. 400 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Steven Kelman Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy...
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Vol. 067 Issue 009 (May 14 1984)
The Softcover Evolution
