Vol. 2 No. 13 · 3 July 1980
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Vol. 2 No. 13 · 3 July 1980
David Marquand
Annals of an Abiding Liberal by John Kenneth Galbraith. Deutsch, 388 pp., £6.95, April 1980, 0 233 97209 9
Letters
Gabriel Josipovici, Roger Poole, N.M. MacKenzie, John Goldblatt
Derek Mahon
Poem: ‘Table Talk’
Ralf Dahrendorf
Understanding Social Policy by Michael Hill. Blackwell, 280 pp., £12, April 1980, 0 631 18170 9 Poverty and Inequality in Common Market Countries edited by Vic George and Roger Lawson. Routledge, 253 pp., £9.50, April 1980, 0 7100 0424 9 Planning for Welfare: Social Policy and the Expenditure Process edited by Timothy Booth. Blackwell, 208 pp., £12, November 1980, 0 631 19560 2 The City and Social Theory by Michael Peter Smith. Blackwell, 315 pp., £12, April 1980, 9780631121510 The Good City: A Study of Urban Development and Policy in Britain by David Donnison. Heinemann, 221 pp., £4.95, April 1980, 0 435 85217 5 The Economics of Prosperity: Social Priorities in the Eighties by David Blake and Paul Ormerod. Grant Mclntyre, 230 pp., £3.95, April 1980, 0 86216 013 8
Raymond Williams
More Bad News Routledge, 502 pp., £17.50, April 1980, 0 7100 0414 1 The whole world is watching by Todd Gitlin. California, 350 pp., £7.75, June 1980, 0 520 03889 4
Martin Woollacott
The Real War by Richard Nixon. Sidgwick, 341 pp., £8.95, April 1980, 0 283 98650 6
Malcolm Deas
The Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidad by V.S. Naipaul. Deutsch, 227 pp., £5.95, June 1980, 0 233 97238 2
George Woodcock
The Man who was B. Traven by Will Wyatt. Cape, 326 pp., £8.50, June 1980, 0 224 01720 9 The Government by B. Traven. Allison and Busby, 231 pp., £6.50, May 1980, 0 85031 356 2 The Cotton-Pickers by B. Traven. Allison and Busby, 200 pp., £5.50, October 1979, 0 85031 284 1 The White Rose by B. Traven. Allison and Busby, 209 pp., £6.50, May 1980, 0 85031 369 4
Marilyn Butler
The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy by Harold Bloom. Faber, 240 pp., £4.95, May 1980, 0 374 15644 1
Graham Hough
Problems by John Updike. Deutsch, 260 pp., £5.95, May 1980, 0 233 97227 7 The City Builder by George Konrad. Sidgwick, 184 pp., £5.95, June 1980, 0 15 118009 1 The Peach Groves by Barbara Hanrahan. Chatto, 228 pp., £4.95, May 1980, 0 7011 2490 3 Other People’s Worlds by William Trevor. Bodley Head, 243 pp., £5.95, June 1980, 0 370 30312 1
Tom Nairn
Gramsci and Marxist Theory edited by Chantal Mouffe. Routledge, 288 pp., £9.50, November 1979, 0 7100 0358 7 Gramsci and the State by Christine Buci-Glucksmann. Lawrence and Wishart, 470 pp., £14, February 1980, 9780853154839 Gramsci’s Politics by Anne Showstack Sassoon. Croom Helm, 261 pp., £12.95, April 1980, 9780709903260
Geoffrey Hawthorn
The Other Pareto edited by Placido Bucolo. Scolar, 308 pp., £15, April 1980, 0 85967 516 5 Elitism by G. Lowell Field and John Higley. Routledge, 135 pp., £6.95, May 1980, 0 7100 0487 7 Elites in Australia by John Higley and Don Smart. Routledge, 317 pp., £9.50, July 1979, 9780710002228
Peter Campbell
In Radin’s Studio by Albert Elsen. Phaidon, 192 pp., £10.95, May 1980, 9780714819761 Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer Thames and Hudson, 155 pp., £25, April 1980, 0 500 54062 4 Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx by Christopher Killip. Arts Council of Great Britain, 69 pp., £9.95, March 1980, 0 7287 0187 1
Hans Keller
Association Football and English Society: 1863-1915 by Tony Mason. Harvester, 278 pp., £15.95, January 1980, 0 85527 797 1
Mark Elvin
The Pinyin Chinese-English Dictionary edited by Wu Jingrong. Commercial Press (Peking and Hong Kong)/Pitman, 976 pp., £12, November 1979, 0 273 08454 2
C.H. Sisson
Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard Kennedy. Norton, 529 pp., £12, May 1980, 0 87140 638 1
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Enemies of Poetry by W.B. Stanford. Routledge, 181 pp., £8.95, February 1980, 0 7100 0460 5 The Idea of a Theatre: the Greek Experience by M.I. Finley. British Museum, 16 pp., £95, February 1980, 0 7141 1267 4
Michael Neve
Havelock Ellis by Phyllis Grosskurth. Allen Lane, 492 pp., £10, June 1980, 0 7139 1071 2
John Robinson
Ahead of his Age: Bishop Barnes of Birmingham by John Barnes. Collins, 487 pp., £12.95, November 1979, 0 00 216087 0
John Sturrock
Nature and Language by Ralf Norrman and Jon Haarberg. Routledge, 232 pp., £10, May 1980, 0 7100 0453 2
E.S. Turner
Friends of the Earth Cookbook by Veronica Sekules. Penguin, 192 pp., £1.95, April 1980, 9780140463026 Hedgerow Cookery by Rosamond Richardson. Penguin, 250 pp., £1.95, April 1980, 0 14 046358 5 Jane Grigson’s Cookery Book by Jane Grigson. Penguin, 606 pp., £2.50, April 1980, 0 14 046352 6 Cooking with Vegetables by Marika Hanbury Tenison. Cape, 284 pp., £9.50, May 1980, 0 224 01597 4 The Home Gardener’s Cookbook by Clare Walker. Penguin, 362 pp., £1.75, April 1980, 0 14 046353 4 Natural Baby Food by Anna Haycraft. Fontana, 123 pp., £1, April 1980, 9780006358565
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