SPRING BOOKS SINCERELY TRUFFAUT BY BARRY GEWEN ANYONE Who enjoys or admires the films of François Truffaut will derive enormous pleasure from his Correspondence 1945-1984 (Noonday/Farrar...
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Lest We Forget The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon By Stanley I. Kutler Knopf. 733 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "A...
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Unintended Fingerprints In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal By Richard Nixon Simon and Schuster. 384pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of history,...
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A Moving Epiphany As I Saw It By Dean Rusk As told to Richard Rusk Norton. 672 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by John ? Roche I am never putoff by taciturnity. My father, who had been at sea as a...
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Reluctant Relatives Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada By Seymour Martin Lipset Routledge. 337pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Roger...
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Culture Watching RANDALL JARRELL: FAILURE IN SUCCESS BY JOHN SIMON RANDALL Jarrell (1914-1965) was a second-rate poet and first-rate critic. Most people would have been satisfied with...
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Tolstoy's Heir Memoirs By Andrei Sakharov Translated by Richard Lourie Knopf. 773 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope" Not since Tolstoy's death in 1910 has...
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Fighting History Intifada: The Palestinian UprisingIsrael's Third Front By Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari Simon and Schuster. 352 pp. $22.95. Inside the PLO: Covert Units, Secret Funds...
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On Poetry COLERIDGE UNBOUND BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL WOULD we regard Samuel Taylor Coleridge differently if he had not lived until 1834, but had perished instead three decades earlier on his...
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Upbeat Visions of the U.S. America's Economic Resurgence: A Bold New Strategy By Richard Rosecrance Harper and Row. 230 pp. $22.50. Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America By John...
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Give Me Your Skilled Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy By George P. Borjas Basic. 256 pp. $22.95. The Economic Consequences of Immigration By Julian L....
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