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Paid articleNext Stop for Saddam
SCHORR, DANIEL
Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Next Stop for Saddam In hailing the end of a "dark and painful era" in Iraq, with the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13, President George W. Bush...
Paid articleThe Specter of Binationalism in Israel
CARMEL, AMOS
A Formula for Extinction The Specter of Binationalism in Israel By Amos Carmel Rehovot On may 9,1948, a unique meeting took place in Paris. Its participants were elder statesman Léon...
Paid articleCanada's New Man at the Top
WALLER, HAROLD M.
Girding for Spring Elections Canada's New Man at the Top By Harold M.Waller Montreal It was a long goodbye for Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who after a decade in office...
Paid articleThe Year That Changed Its Mind
CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
Second Thoughts The Year That Changed Its Mind By Christopher Clausen For many who were young then, it remains after all this time the best of years and the worst of years. It was a...
Paid articleIllusions of Equality
GRAY, PAUL
WINTER BOOKS Illusions of Equality By Paul Gray Imagine a world where the language renders generalizations impossible: no plurals, no collective nouns, no modifiers of anything but single...
Paid articleBlurred Vision
WEBER, EUGEN
Blurred Vision After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order By Emmanuel Todd Columbia. 233 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Eugen Weber Professor of history emeritus, UCLA; author, "The...
Paid articleA Crisis is Born
GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
A Crisis Is Born Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East By John Keay Norton. 506 pp. $28.95. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Co-editor, "American Jewish Yearbook";...
Paid articleThe Spy Gap
DOLMAN, JOSEPH
The Spy Gap Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America By Ted Morgan Random. 685 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Joseph Dolman Editorial writer and columnist, "Newsday" Even now, nearly 50...
Paid articleAll in the Family
GLASS, ANDREW J.
All in the Family American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush By Kevin Phillips Viking. 397 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Andrew J. Glass Managing...
Paid articleTelling Specifics
GRAFF, HENRY F.
Telling Specifics Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom By Conrad Black Public Affairs. 1360 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of history emeritus, Columbia;...
Paid articleTurning of the Tide
O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
Turning of the Tide The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War 1941-1943 By Alan Schom Norton. 540 pp. $28.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history,...
Paid article'This Call May Be Recorded'
ROGERS, JOEL
'This Call May Be Recorded' The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age By Simon Head Oxford. 222 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Joel Rogers Professor of law, political science,...
Paid articleUneven Flow
ZOLBERG, ARISTIDE R.
Uneven Flow Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 By Roger Daniels Hill and Wang. 344 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Aristide R. Zolberg Professor of...
Paid articleNovel Approaches to the Truth
REICH, TOVA
On Fiction Novel Approaches to the Truth By Tova Reich For its serious practitioners, fiction can seem trivial, almost unworthy, even embarrassing. That may account for the note to...
Paid articleCountering the Obscene
BROWN, ROSELLEN
Countering the Obscene Elizabeth Costello By J.M. Coetzee Viking. 230 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Author, "Half a Heart," "Street Games" It is apparent to anyone who has...
Paid articleBack to Eden
HASKELL, MOLLY
Back to Eden Old School By Tobias Wolff Knopf. 195 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Molly Haskell Film critic and author The prep school lovingly described by the unnamed narrator in...
Paid articleA Prankster's Peril
GRAHAM, PHILIP
A Prankster's Peril My Life as a Fake By Peter Carey Knopf. 265 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Philip Graham Author, "Howto Read an Unwritten Language" In the early decades of the 20th...
Paid articleIn the Devil's House
KENAN, RANDALL
In the Devil's House The Darkest Child By Delores Phillips Soho. 387 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Randall Kenan Author, "Walking on Water" Portrayals ofblack matriarchs in African American...
Paid articleState of a Union
SMITH, SARAH HARRISON
State of a Union The Amateur Marriage By Anne Tyler Knopf. 320 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Sarah Harrison Smith Freelance writer and critic Anne Tyler's latest novel of marital discontent...
Paid articleReturn of the Peasant Poet
PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
On Poetry Return of the Peasant Poet By Phoebe Pettingell Asked to name the greatest 19th-century English nature poet, most readers answer, "Wordsworth." In John Clare: A Biography...
Paid article'I Have Here in My Hand a List'
FRANK, REUVEN
On Television 'I Have Here in My Hand a List...' By Reuven Frank One day in the early 1950s, I got word to see my boss, the head of NBC News. When I arrived at his office he was on the...
Paid articleThe Composer as Clown
SIMON, JOHN
On Music The Composer as Clown By John Simon With most composers the artist is more important than the man; with Erik Satie it is rather the reverse. "In order to understand Satie's...
Paid articleWomen at the Edge
KANFER, STEFAN
On Stage Women at the Edge By Stefan Kanfer Her biography is as unlikely as the saga of her adopted country. A family of Ukrainian Jews immigrates to Milwaukee in 1906. The youngest...
Paid articleINDEX FOR 2003
INDEX FOR 2003 This index of New Leader articles for 2003 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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