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IssueVol. 091 Issue 006 (November 1 2008)
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Paid articleAn Age of Anxiety
SCHORR, DANIEL
Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr An Age of Anxiety In 1996, near the end of the 20th century, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cautioned us against “irrational exuberance.”...
Paid articleHow Canada Sees Obama
WALLER, HAROLDM.
Counting on a Convergence of Interests How Sees Obama By Harold M. Waller Montreal Canadians welcomed Barack Obama's election, despite being somewhat apprehensive about campaign...
Paid articleMumbai After the Mayhem
D'MONTE, DARRYL
Guarding Against a Knee-Jerk Reaction Mumbai Afterthe Mayhem By Darryl D’Monte Mumbai When terrorists attacked my city on November 26, I was in a walled medieval Italian...
Paid articleFrance's Socialists in Disarray
VALLS-RUSSELL, JANICE
Ségolène Royal vs. Martine Aubry France's Socialists in Disarray By Janice Valls-Russell Paris A recent cartoon in the Center-Left weekly Le Nouvel Observateur showed President Nicolas...
Paid articleThe Expatriate Vote
GRUBER, RUTH ELLEN
Letter from Rome The Expatriate Vote By Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome In early September I had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. X, American acquaintances who live year-round in Italy. They are a...
Paid articleAuthors on the Road
KANFER, STEFAN
Culture Watching Authors on the Road By Stefan Kanfer “A boy has to peddle his papers," explained Truman Capote to an interviewer in 1966. He had just finished a crosscountry tour,...
Paid articleIn the Corridors of Power
HEILBRUNN, JACOB
Winter Books In the Corridors of Power By Jacob Heilbrunn FEW DECISIONS of an incoming President are more fateful than the Cabinet he selects. George W. Bush’s Presidency was crippled from...
Paid articleA Team of Rebels
EISENBACH, DAVID
A Team of Rebels Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America By Adam Cohen Penguin. 372 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by David Eisenbach Professor of...
Paid articleAt the Brink of Barbarism
O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
At the Brink of Barbarism With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain By Michael Korda HarperCollins. 310 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by William L. O’Neill Professor emeritus of...
Paid articlePanic, Fraud and Misadventure
WATSON, WILLIAM
Panic, Fraud and Misadventure The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World By Niall Ferguson Penguin. 442 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by William Watson Chair of Economics,...
Paid articleThe Copyright Fog
CREWS, KENNETH D.
The Copyright Fog The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind By James Boyle Yale. 315 pp. $28.50. Reviewed by Kenneth D. Crews Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia...
Paid articleDancing to a Different Discipline
SISMAN, ELAINE
Dancing to a Different Discipline The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians, and Their Art By Tim Blanning Harvard. 416 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Elaine Sisman Anne Parsons...
Paid articleWhere the Protagonist Is Time
ALLEN, BROOKE
On Fiction Where the Protagonist Is Time By Brooke Allen Philip Hensher, the 43-year-old British novelist who has won a Somerset Maugham Award and been a Man Booker Prize runner-up, is an...
Paid articleA Chorus of the Motherless
BROWN, ROSELLEN
A Chorus of the Motherless A Mercy By Toni Morrison Knopf. 167 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Professor of English, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; author, “Half a...
Paid articleReturn of the Con Man
GRAHAM, PHILIP
Return of the Con Man Esther's Inheritance By Sândor Mârai Translated by George Szirtes Knopf. 148 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Philip Graham Author, "Interior Design: Stories"; forthcoming,...
Paid articleLives Made of Myths
ORANGE, MICHELLE
Lives Made of Myths The Sky Below By Stacey D'Erasmo Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 271pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Michelle Orange Author, "The Sicily Papers"; editor, "From the...
Paid articleNaughty Games and Imperial Imagism
PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
On Poetry Naughty Games and Imperial Imagism By Phoebe Pettingell THE EPIGRAM WAS once considered a kind of poetry useful for clever commentary on the culture. Marcus Valerius Martialis...
Paid articleOn Television
KITMAN, MARVIN
On Television Godzilla vs. King Kong By Marvin Kitman DECEMBER was media mogul month in publishing.Two major Christmas gifts were put out for media mogul fans like myself—and one of...
Paid articleIndex for 2008
INDEX FOR 2008 This index of New Leader articles for 2008 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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