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 Vol. 080 Issue 018 (December 1 1997)
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Vol. 080 Issue 019 (December 29 1997)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Prelude to Slaughter
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DRAPER, ROGER
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PRELUDE TO SLAUGHTER By Roger Draper Civil wars are generally more brutal than wars among nations, for in the struggle of neighbor against neighbor one side must win absolutely. Three were...
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Atonement Isn't Enough
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SLEEPER, JIM
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Atonement Isn't Enough A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America By David K. Shipler Knopf. 608 pp. $30.00. The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's...
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Trading In a Hard-Won Reputation
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BRINKLEY, DOUGLAS
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Trading In a Hard-Won Reputation The Dark Side of Camelot By Seymour M. Hersh Little, Brown. 498 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Douglas Brinkley Director of the Eisenhower Center and...
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Fundamental Questions Remain
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Fundamental Questions Remain Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 Edited by Michael R. Beschloss Simon and Schuster. 592 pp. $30.00. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White...
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A Dark and Lonely Mind
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OSHINSKY, DAVID M.
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A Dark and Lonely Mind Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes Edited by Stanley I. Kutler Free Press. 675 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "A...
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Single Success Presidents
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O'NEILL, WILLLAM L.
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Single Success Presidents Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader By Dinesh D'Souza Free Press. 292 pp. $25.00. George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee By...
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The Fading Enlightenment
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CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
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Second Thoughts THE FADING ENLIGHTENMENT By Christopher Clausen As the tail end of the second millennium scurries toward its appointment with history, the 18th century seems longer ago with...
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Russia Lost and Found
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SHUB, ANATOLE
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Russia Lost and Found Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village By Serge Schmemann Knopf. 350 pp. $27.50. Open Lands: Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places By...
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Evolution of a Soviet Novel
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LOURIE, RICHARD
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Evolution of a Soviet Novel How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia By Thomas Lahusen Cornell. 256 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Richard Lourie Author,...
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Resurrecting the Liberal Keats
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry RESURRECTING THE LIBERAL KEATS By Phoebe Pettingell Six hundred pages seems a lot of biography for a life that ended at age 25. So I approached Andrew Motion's Keats (Farrar Straus...
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The Drama of German Unification
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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The Drama of German Unification Rebuilding a House Divided By Hans-Dietrich Genscher Translated by Thomas Thornton Broadway. 580 pp. $40.00. Reviewed by Richard C. Hottelet Former CBS News...
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Superb Old-Fashioned Fare
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HEILBRUNN, JACOB
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Superb Old-Fashioned Fare A History of Europe By J. M. Roberts Allen Lane. 628 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Associate editor, "New Republic" Europe, Bismarck once...
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Remnants of Love
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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Writers & Writing REMNANTS OF LOVE By Brooke Allen What is the primary human need? Is it food, sex, love? None of these, decides Leonard Schiller, the elderly writer in Brian Morton's new...
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A Game Born in Bloodshed
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GOODMAN, WALTER
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A Game Born in Bloodshed The Lüneburg Variation By Paolo Manrensig Farrar Straus Giroux. 140 pp. $19.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Only with the very last words of this taut novel is the...
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Behind a Shell of Illusions
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DICKSTEIN, LORE
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Behind a Shell of Illusions Shadows on the Hudson By Isaac Bashevis Singer Translated by Joseph Sherman Farrar Straus Giroux. 548 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Lore Dickstein Contributor, New...
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Commissar of the Contrary
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SHECHNER, MARK
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Commissar of the Contrary Barney's Version By Mordecai Richler Knopf. 358 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Mark Shechner Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo; author, "After...
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Spiced Up Henry James
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen SPICED UP HENRY JAMES By Raphael Shargel For a while, it seemed that every Merchant-Ivory imitator in England and this country wanted to do a movie from a Jane Austen novel. Now,...
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Diverting Sorrows
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage DIVERTING SORROWS By Stefan Kanfer In October 1887, Dr. Anton Chekhov wrote his brother: "Our modern playwrights stuff their plays exclusively with angels, villains and...
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Index for 1997
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INDEX FOR 1997 This index of New Leader articles for 1997 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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