PIOUS PATRIOTICS BY BARRY GEWEN NORMAN PODHORETZ is the most strident of the neo-conservatives. He is the cheerleader of the group, its street fighter and its hanging judge. Although his...
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Making the Moral Matter_ Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism By Mark Krupnick Northwestern. 207 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English,...
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A Gospel of Serene Tension Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography By Richard Fox Pantheon. 340 pp. $19.95. The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr Edited and Introduced By Robert McAfee Brown Yale. 264 pp....
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Wise Men and Wise Alecs When it comes to memoirs, chronicles, reviews, celebrations, debunkings, and retorts, the New York intellectuals must hold some sort of...
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Supply Side Soap Opera The Triumph of Politics By David A. Stockman Harper & Row. 422 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman In this ill-written, mean-spirited memoir, Ronald Reagan's former...
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In the Market We Trust Risk and Other Four-Letter Words By Walter B. Wriston Harper & Row. 243 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Jagdish N. Bhagwati Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics, Columbia...
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One Man's Exodus Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time By Martin Gilbert Viking. 467 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Moshe Decter Contributor, "Foreign Affairs," New York "Times," "Midstream" "Jews! Never...
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The Kremlin Psyche The Soviet Paradox: External Expansion, Internal Decline By Seweryn Bialer Knopf. 391 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Peter Kenez Professor of history, University of California,...
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High Altitude Diplomacy Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair By Michael R. Beschloss Harper & Row. 494 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Herbert Parmet Professor of history, Graduate...
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On Poetry HART CRANE REVISITED BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL A few minutes before noon on April 27,1932, Hart Crane appeared on the deck of the Orizaba, 275 miles north of Havana on her way to New York....
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Man Without a Face Blessings in Disguise By Alec Guinness Knopf. 238 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by John Simon Actors seem to be created for two purposes: to act and to tell anecdotes. The famous...
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Restoring the Hemingway Image The Garden of Eden By Ernest Hemingway Scribners. 247pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Alfred Bendixen Assistant Professor of English, Barnard College The publication of...
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