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January, 1980

Watergate – New Investigations. How We Lost the War But Won Asia, Coddled Criminals, The McCord File, Wild Elephants in Africa

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$12.50

February, 1980

Bankers’ Casino – Gambling in the $900 Billion Euromarket. Campus Mismanagers, Famous Bread Loaf Writers School, Israeli Expansionism

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$12.50

March, 1980

Scenes From Corporate Life. Right Conduct for a Free Press, No-Account Census, A Presentation of Whales on an Oregon Beach

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$12.50

April, 1980

Sunday Under Par – From a New Novel by Walker Percy. Innocent America – Wicked World, Computerized Ulysses, Anthony Blunt – Gentleman Traitor, War Fever, The Brethren’s Clerks

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$12.50

May, 1980

Knowledge Without Wisdom in the Age of Experts. Dark Side of Solzhenitsyn, Cult of Mormonism, Race Problems at the New York Review of Books, His Former Majesty Bokassa

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$12.50

June, 1980

Entangled Freedoms – 80 Years of Red tape. What Ails America, Defeatist France, Autobiography Bug, A Taste for Calcutta

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$6.00

July, 1980

Consorting With Arabs. Costing Out Iran by George Plimpton, The American Teacher, Enemies of Intimacy, Manachem Begin

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$12.50

August, 1980

God’s Own Network – The Electronic Kingdom of Pat Robertson. Ministry of Culture, Well-Meaning Government, Is Art All There Is by Annie Dillard

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$12.50

September, 1980

The Hollywood Right – Out Takes from the Republican National Convention (Reagan cover). James Joyce’s Women, The Trouble With Slogans by Theodore Sorensen, The War in the Sahara, ERA – RIP

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$12.50

October, 1980

The Virtues of Ambition. Unprofitable War by George McGovern, Sexual Harassment of Working Women, Respectable Terrorism, Conservatism in America, Moscow Games by George Plimpton

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$12.50

November, 1980

The Wrecks of the Auto Industry – Cheap Gas Put Detroit on the Road to Ruin. Through History with Kissinger, An American Parliament, Nation of Lobbyists

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$12.50

December, 1980

State vs. Academe by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Cures That Kill, Coming To Terms with Vietnam, The Pundit’s Art

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January, 1981

Hiding Islam – Why the American Press Misses the Story in Iran. Plato’s Ideal Bedlam by I.F. Stone, Reagan’s Academy Award, Moonies Invade Gloucester, In Search of the Miraculous

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$10.00

February, 1981

Russian Disorders. Hotel California, Hard-Money Men, The Color of Education, A Colonial Lexicon, How GM and Its Allies Dismantled America’s Mass Transit, Robert McNamara’s Gift to Reagan

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$12.50

March, 1981

Rising to Rebellion – With the Guerrillas in El Salvador. LA’s Water Wars, Two Cheers for Regulation, National Public Radio

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$12.50

April, 1981

An American Fortune: The Hunt Family – Turning Oil Into Silver. Rush for Second Place, Hemingway’s Letters, Trading Poland for the Gulf

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May, 1981

Marketing Pollution. The Budget Can’t Be Cut, Day the Hunts Shook the World, A Memoir of a Childhood in East Germany, To Break a Union, Mexico City – The Capital of Underdevelopment

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$12.50

June, 1981

From Bauhaus to Our House – Tom Wolfe on Modern Architecture. Lesson of Poland’s Resistance, The Haig Doctrine, Confessions of a One-Man Band

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$15.00

July, 1981

Gilding the News by Lewis Lapham. Tom Wolfe part 2, Afghanistan – The Forgotten War, Julius Nyerere, Business of Harvard is Business

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August, 1981

Panic Among the Philistines – America’s Greatest Writers Fight for Survival. India’s Most Frightening Crime, Education of Alfonse D’Amato, A Way Out in El Salvador

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$12.50

September, 1981

Patronage Doesn’t Make Your Talented, It Just Makes You Richer. Island of Instability – Saudi Arabia, The Newest Class – Tito’s Proletariat, Case for Bankrupcy, Money and Art

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$12.50

October, 1981

Will She Be a Feminist? The Art of Moving Picture, Last Refuge of a Liberal Is the Courts, Reagan and the Politics of Greed, Shame of Professional Schools, Niceness Factor, Smith College, Genealogy of Dinosaurs

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November, 1981

In Case Your Missed It..The Energy Crisis s Over! England’s Retreat From Civility, Israel’s Own Anti-Semitism, Shroud of Turin

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$12.50

December, 1981

The Americans by Luigi Barzini. The Four Horsemen, Elegy for the Post Office, Pentagon’s Search for a Doomsday Machine, William Carlos Williams

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February, 1982

From Courtesan to Career Woman – Clare Boothe Luce. The Feckless Thrifts, Russian Winter

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March, 1982

The Wilderness Wars – Doonesbury cover by Garry Trudeau. Secret Lives of Dentists, Horror of Public Relations, What Jackie Kennedy and Pat Nixon Did to Crushed Potato Chips

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April, 1982

Confessions of a Blue-Chip Black. 1984 in China, Enlightenment Hits Arkansas, A Poor Man’s Perry Mason, Travel Planner

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May, 1982

Winning Through Immigration. Preparing for War in Europe, Rich Folks at Home, Reagan: Not a Nice Guy

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June, 1982

Under the Robes: Cardinals Are People Too. How Theodore White Lost His Way, Racism and the Work Ethic, Lawn Sharks Are After Your Grass, Cinema Verite

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July, 1982

Canoodling With Death. Why God Loves Intellectuals, Bowling With Dr. Mengele, Belize, Southern Women, NATO – American Protectorate of Europe

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August, 1982

Let Them See Fakes – A Better Way to Bring Art to the People. Are MacNeil and Lehrer Too Good For Us?, Harvard’s Panhandling Machine, Indianapolis 500

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$12.50

September, 1982

Waiting for Interferon. Rich Doctors – Poor Nurses, Joyce Carol Oates, Airport X-Ray Machines, The Gossip’s Code, Simple Tanks Would Suffice

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$12.50

October, 1982

Closets of Power – The Double Lives of Homosexuals in Politics. Farmers and Hogwash, Jobs For Everyone, Chewing Gum for the Rich

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November, 1982

Explaining Japan to America and Vice-Versa. Up the Volga on a Ship of Fools by P.J. O’Rourke, Consultants, Other People’s Mail

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December, 1982

Sharing the Dirty Work – What Equality Really Means. Guests and Hosts, Alex Comfort’s Secret Passions

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January, 1983

If Orwell Were Alive Today. Can Sex Save the Democrats?, The Day Drugs Came to Steinhatchee FL

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February, 1983

Most Influential Private Citizen in America – John J. McCloy. Creaking Capitalism – Creeping Socialism, Susan Sontag, Canine Class Struggle, Making of Andropov 1982

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March, 1983

Ivan the Terrible Soldier, Traitor Network, Truth About Girl Scouts, Edmund Wilson on Edith Sitwell, Lillian Hellman on Mary McCarthy

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$15.00

April, 1983

How the Rich Avoid Paying Taxes, Downward Mobility in America Today, Political TV Ad Awards, Post-Post-Watergate Morality, Rock Writing

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$12.50

May, 1983

Breakdown at Educational Testing Service, Case of the Vanishing Movie, Tragedy of Leonard Bernstein, Norman Mailer, Why Running Shoes Cost $80 and Don’t Fit

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June, 1983

The Trouble With Unions, Rotten World of Professional Tennis, Rest in Pieces, High Art of Movie Credits, Can Sociobiology Be Saved?

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July, 1983

Specter of Conventional War, Girls’ Gymnastics, Armand Hammer, Scandal of State Lotteries, New Art Careerism

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August, 1983

Relentless Rise of Anne Wexler, When the Boss Is a Beast, New Jersey’s Cancer Culture, Presidential Candidates Reconsidered

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$12.50

September, 1983

Reagan’s Manifest Destiny in Latin America, Coming War in South Africa, Wallace Stevens’s Poems, Adventures in the Loan Trade

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$12.50

October, 1983

Great Mole Mistory – James Angleton, Kim Philby and the Double Double-Cross. Grim Cult of Advice for Businesswomen, JFK Assassination Mythology, Frontiers of Pudding Technology

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$12.50

November, 1983

Ruling the World of Money – The Swiss. Guru Roundup, Poor Man’s Burden, James Wolcott on Philip Larkin

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December, 1983

Revolt on the Veldt – South Africa’s Guerrilla Resistance. The Manhattan Project, Sex-Life of the 19th Century Middle Class, Shrine-Hopping in Beatles’ Liverpool, Railroading in the Cities

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January, 1984

Open Letter to Kissinger in Central America. Marc Rich, Where American Conservatives Come From, Reagan’s Star Wars Fantasy, Moral Transformation of the Dog

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$12.50

February, 1984

The Existential Death of Jean-Paul Sartre. Reagan Revolt That Wasn’t, Can the Peace Movement Make a President?, Relation Between Cultural Decadence and Economic Decline

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March, 1984

Does America Exist? by Louis L’Amour, others. Grenada: An Island Betrayed, Rise of the Verbal Class, Small Town Grotesques by John Updike

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April, 1984

What the Russians Really Want, Should the US Defend Europe?, 1040 Tax Rform, We Are All Marxists Now

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May, 1984

A Press Guide to Paradise – Imagined by the Editors of Paris Review, Time, National Lampoon, Bowling, others. What’s Wrong With Reagainsm: A Tory’s Lament, When Doctors Make Mistakes, Censuring the White House Censors

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June, 1984

Why Are We in Central America by Carlos Fuentes, William Colby, others. America and the Arab World: End of the Affair, Ticket to Carnegie Hall, Making Vietnam Safe for Literature

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July, 1984

Playing Politics – Why the Democrats Don’t Care Who Wins in November. If I We’re Running Against Reagan by Eugene McCarthy, Studs Terkel, others, By Rolls to Russia

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$12.50

August, 1984

To the Paradise Beach, Naming the Land, Tocqueville’s Mistake, Bwana Vistas: Travel on the Imperial Plan

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$12.50

September, 1984

Should the CIA Fight Secret Wars? By Colby, Moynihan, others. The Philippines: Revolution in Luxury Class, Notes on Exile, The Blood-Red Press – Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post

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$12.50

October, 1984

The Worhip of Art by Tom Wolfe. Terrorism and the Media by George Will, Daniel Schorr, Ted Koppel, others. Nicaragua, The Tragedy of Tragedy by Vladimir Nabokov

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$12.50

November, 1984

The Place of Pornography, The Politics of Nostalgia, Computers – A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge, Escape from Modernism

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$12.50

December, 1984

Prophets of the Holy Land. Brazil: The Last Gold Rush, The New Music and its Public, Cleansing of Times Square – 2 copies

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$12.50

 

January, 1985

Can the Press Tell the Truth?, T.Boone Pickens and the End of Gulf Oil, Advertising as Agitprop

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$12.50

February, 1985

Who Pays for Economic Change?, Taxonomic Case Against Darwin, Bad News From Britain, Pornography and Its Discontents by Hugh Heffner, Paul Krassner, Robert Wright

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March, 1985

Television Looks At Itself by Norman Lear, Steven Bochco, others. Bewildered American Raj, Kimball Nebraska – Learning to Love the Bomb

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$12.50

April, 1985

On the Consequences of Vietnam. The Art of Suffering, Spy As Techno-Bureaucrat, Scenes From a Marriage Portrait

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$12.50

May, 1985

Images of Fear – On the Perception and Reality of Crime. Argentina: Souring on the Democratic Dream, Sweet Deal for Kiwifruit, Conrad’s Africa – And Ours

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June, 1985

Nuclear Strategy and the Plausibility of Hope. Why Johnny Can’t Think, In Defense of the Pit Bull, Cape Cod – In Thoreau’s Footsteps

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$12.50

July, 1985

Reflections on Power: A Dissenting View by Earl Shorris. The Nuclear Dilemma part 2 by Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, Albert Gore Jr., others. Bangkok: The Residues of War, Social Life of Jean Jacques Rousseau

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August, 1985

Cultivating the American Garden, Will Books Survive?, Crime: In Defense of Free Will

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$12.50

September, 1985

Sports: How Dirty A Game by Howard Cosell, Billie Jean King, George Plimpton, others. A Rancher’s Sorrow, First Day of School

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October, 1985

Lost Samurai – The Withered Soul of Postwar Japan. Aids: What Is to Be Done – by various authors. Science Fiction in the Temple of Doom, Prime-Time Puritans

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November, 1985

Liberty Under Siege – The Reagan Administration’s Taste for Autocracy. The Pentagon vs. the Press, A Cheap Ticket to College, Enduring Romance of the Pianist

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December, 1985

In the Age of Cocaine – What Is America’s Drug Problem by Rudolph Giuliani, others. Poland and the Price of Liberalism, Renoir’s Sweet Chastity, Barbie and the Trial of Lyons

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$15.00

 

February, 1987

Missing Children, Middle-Class Blacks, Haiti

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$12.50

March, 1987

Tijuana and San Diego, TV’s Rigged Political Talk Shows, Making Book on Oliver North

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$12.50

April, 1987

Morality and Art, Cool Reaction to Gorbachev’s Thaw, Surrogate Mothers, Thomas McGuane

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May, 1987

The Next Wall Street Panic, Goa – Wildlife Preserve for the Endangered Hippie, Marshall Plan

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$12.50

June, 1987

The Terrorist Aesthetic, The Soviet Economy by Galbraith

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$12.50

July, 1987

Puritanism and the American Presidency, journey Through Southern Africa, Serious Music Is Losing Its Measure

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$12.50

August, 1987

Old Roses and Birdsong, Fear and Self-Loathing on the Gay Right, Joan Collins

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$12.50

September, 1987

Ethics in Embryo, Hitler’s Shadow, Annotating Judge Robert Bork

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$12.50

October, 1987

Yesterday’s Revolution, Detective Fiction In Our Time, We Do Abortions Here – A Nurse’s Story

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$12.50

November, 1987

Requiem for the Midwest, You Can Have It All!, Travels in East Germany

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$12.50

December, 1987

Manufacturing the Next President, Panama Fallen Among Thieves, Reflections on Higher Shopping

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$12.50

 

January, 1988

Along the Streets of Tehran, Cultural Contradictions of the GOP, Allan Bloom’s Elitist Agenda

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$12.50

 

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