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Vol. 074 Issue 014 (December 30 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Who Killed Jewish Boston?
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DRAPER, ROGER
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WHO KILLED JEWISH BOSTON? BY ROGER DRAPER During the spring of 1987 a remarkable letter appeared in a trade publication called the Metropolitan Real Estate Journal. Written by an anonymous...
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Too Little Time on Our Hands
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GEWEN, BARRY
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Too Little Time on Our Hands The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure By Juliet Schor Basic Books. 247 pp. $21.00. Reviewed by Barry Gewen New York "Times...
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Cutting Through Another Jungle
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SHANKER, ALBERT
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Cutting Through Another Jungle Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools By Jonathan Kozol Crown. 262 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Albert Shanker President, American Federation of...
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Memories of a Mentor
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ROBERTS, STEVEN V.
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Memories of a Mentor Deadline: A Memoir By James Reston Random House. 525 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Steven V Roberts Senior writer, "U.S. News and World Report" I first met James Reston in...
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Polite Ivy League Pioneers
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WHITFIELD, STEVEN J.
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Polite Ivy League Pioneers Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation By Susanne Klingenstein Yale. 248 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Stephen J....
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Writing, and Rewriting, History
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JR, ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER
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Thinking Aloud WRITING AND REWRITING HISTORY BY ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. Documentation is not the end of history, but it is the beginning. The great American historiansof the 19th...
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A Cooler Look at LBJ
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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A Cooler Look at LBJ Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 By Robert Dallek Oxford. 721 pp. $30.00. The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House...
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The High Cost of Watergate
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O'NEILL, WTLLIAM L.
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The High Cost of Watergate Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990 By Stephen E. Ambrose Simon and Schuster. 667pp. $27.50. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of History,...
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What Wilson Was Really Like
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PRICE, DOUGLAS
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What Wilson Was Really Like Woodrow Wilson By August Heckscher Scribner's. 743 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Douglas Price Professor of Government, Harvard Given the chance to spend an...
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Putting Democracy in Peril
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LEMOYNE, JAMES
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Putting Democracy in Peril October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan By Gary Sick Times Books. 277pp. $23.00. Under Fire: An American Story By Oliver...
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All that Is Soviet Melts into Air
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DANIELS, ROBERT V.
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All that Is Soviet Melts into Air The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons By Mikhail S. Gorbachev HarperCollins. 127pp. $18.00. Mikhail Gorbachev: The Origins of Perestroika By Michel...
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I Kill, Therefore I Am
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ROCHE, JOHN P.
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I Kill, Therefore I Am Stalin: Breaker of Nations By Robert Conquest Viking. 346 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by John P. Roche For over 40 years Robert Conquest has been the terror of...
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Nemerov's Gnomic Conclusions
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry NEMEROV'S GNOMIC FAREWELL BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Dead poets never sound quite the same as they did when alive. We approach a completed body of work very differently than we do the...
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For Browsers and Specialists Alike
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SIMON, JOHN
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For Browsers and Specialists Alike A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory By J. A. Cuddon Blackwell. 1,051pp. $44.95. Reviewed by John Simon Tms book is not for everyone. But...
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Fiction in Slow Motion
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DAVIS, ROBERT GORHAM
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Fiction in Slow Motion The Runaway Soul By Harold Brodkey Farrar Straus Giroux. 835pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor Emeritus of English, Columbia University Harold...
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Tracking a Tireless Victorian
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MELLOW, JAMES R.
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Tracking a Tireless Victorian Trollope: A Biography By N. John Hal! Clarendon Press/Oxford. 581 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Author, "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein &...
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On Stage
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage NOTHING NEW ON BROADWAY BY STEFAN KANFER Joe Allen's restaurant on 46th Street features a celebrated Flop Wall: posters of Broadway musicals that bombed big time. Kelly is there,...
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INDEX FOR 1991
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INDEX FOR 1991 This Index of New Leader articles for 1991 is divided into Ihree sections: Section 1, Index of Authors, lists the names of all New Leader contributors, whether writers of articles,...
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