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Vol. 079 Issue 009 (December 16 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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A Philosopher in the Boudoir
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DRAPER, ROGER
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A WINTER. PHILOSOPHER IN THE BOUDOIR BY ROGER DRAPER Bertrand Russell was the foremost intellectual hero of my youth, but I did not think him a faultless hero, because his three-volume...
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua
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OSHINSKY, DAVID M.
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey By David Horowitz Free Press. 468pp. $27.50. Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "A Conspiracy So...
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What's Wrong with Our Universities
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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What's Wrong with Our Universities The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History By Lawrence W. Levine Beacon. 212pp. $20.00. Crisis in the Academy: Rethinking Higher Education...
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Sullying a Hero's Reputation
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Sullying a Hero's Reputation American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson By Joseph J. Ellis Knopf. 400pp. $26.00. The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution,...
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Testing the Margins of Hope
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SLEEPER, JIM
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Testing the Margins of Hope Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World By Ellis Cose HarperCollins. 272pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Jim Sleeper Author, "The Closest of Strangers:...
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Daniel Bell's Balancing Act
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DIGGINS, JOHN PATRICK
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Perspectives DANIEL BELL'S BALANCING ACT BY JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS The test of a "first-rate intelligence," observed F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the ability of one mind to hold two contradictory ideas...
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Where Angels Feared to Tread
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SHUB, ANATOLE
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Where Angels Feared to Tread Memoirs By Mikhail S. Gorbachev Doubleday. 760 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope," "The New Russian Tragedy" For decades after...
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That's the Way It Was
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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That's the Way It Was A Reporter's Life By Waller Cronkite Knopf. 384pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Richard C. Hottelet Former CBS News correspondent The title really tells almost all. This is not...
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An Immoderate Moderate
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ROSS, IRWIN
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An Immoderate Moderate One Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country By Henry Grunwald Doubleday. 658pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Irwin Ross Retired roving editor, "Reader's...
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Up and Down with Stephen and Jack
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CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
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Second Thoughts UP AND DOWN WITH STEPHEN AND JACK BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN It's been a long voyage, but Captain John Aubrey, RN, and Dr. Stephen Maturin seem to be heading, if at a leisurely pace,...
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Where Love Touches Death
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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Where Love Touches Death Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas By Francine Prose Metropolitan/Holt. 241 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Professor of English. University of Houston; author,...
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Looking Backward
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GOODMAN, WALTER
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Looking Backward Dewey Defeats Truman By Thomas Mallon Pantheon. 368 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Thomas Mallon's engaging new novel brings memories of Sherwood Anderson and Edgar...
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Lifelong Loneliness
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ROIPHE, ANNE
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Lifelong Loneliness Altered States By Anita Brookner Random. 229 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Anne Roiphe Author, "Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World," whose novels include "If You Knew...
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Twentieth Century Blues
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry TWENTIETH CENTURY BLUES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Accurately or not, we tend to associate past eras of poetry with a dominant style: metaphysical mysticism for the 17th century,...
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How Good Is It?
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SIMON, JOHN
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How Good Is It? Shakespeare's Edward III Edited bv Eric Sams Yale. 242pp. $30.00. Reviewed by John Simon In 1596 Cuthbert Burby published an anonymous play bearing the title and legend, "The...
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An Imperfect Model
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PETERSON, WALLACE C.
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An Imperfect Model Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets By Robert Kuttner Knopf. 395 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Wallace C. Peterson George Holmes Professor of Economics...
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Demystifying an Ancient Autocracy
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KWITNY, JONATHAN
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Demystifying an Ancient Autocracy Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church by Thomas J. Reese Harvard. 317 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Jonathan Kwitny Author,...
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Index for 1996
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INDEX FOR 1996 This index of New Leader articles for 1996 is divided into three sections: Section 1, Index of Authors, lists the names of all New Leader contributors, whether writers of articles,...
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