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

Letters

Gabriel Josipovici, Roger Poole, N.M. MacKenzie, John Goldblatt

Derek Mahon

Poem: ‘Table Talk’

Ralf Dahrendorf

Understanding Social Policy by Michael Hill
Poverty and Inequality in Common Market Countries edited by Vic George and Roger Lawson
Planning for Welfare: Social Policy and the Expenditure Process edited by Timothy Booth
The City and Social Theory by Michael Peter Smith
The Good City: A Study of Urban Development and Policy in Britain by David Donnison
The Economics of Prosperity: Social Priorities in the Eighties by David Blake and Paul Ormerod

Raymond Williams

More Bad News 
The whole world is watching by Todd Gitlin

Martin Woollacott

The Real War by Richard Nixon

Malcolm Deas

The Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidad by V.S. Naipaul

George Woodcock

The Man who was B. Traven by Will Wyatt
The Government by B. Traven
The Cotton-Pickers by B. Traven
The White Rose by B. Traven

Marilyn Butler

The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy by Harold Bloom

Graham Hough

Problems by John Updike
The City Builder by George Konrad
The Peach Groves by Barbara Hanrahan
Other People’s Worlds by William Trevor

Tom Nairn

Gramsci and Marxist Theory edited by Chantal Mouffe
Gramsci and the State by Christine Buci-Glucksmann
Gramsci’s Politics by Anne Showstack Sassoon

Geoffrey Hawthorn

The Other Pareto edited by Placido Bucolo
Elitism by G. Lowell Field and John Higley
Elites in Australia by John Higley and Don Smart

Peter Campbell

In Radin’s Studio by Albert Elsen
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer 
Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx by Christopher Killip

Hans Keller

Association Football and English Society: 1863-1915 by Tony Mason

Mark Elvin

The Pinyin Chinese-English Dictionary edited by Wu Jingrong

C.H. Sisson

Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard Kennedy

Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Enemies of Poetry by W.B. Stanford
The Idea of a Theatre: the Greek Experience by M.I. Finley

Michael Neve

Havelock Ellis by Phyllis Grosskurth

John Robinson

Ahead of his Age: Bishop Barnes of Birmingham by John Barnes

John Sturrock

Nature and Language by Ralf Norrman and Jon Haarberg

E.S. Turner

Friends of the Earth Cookbook by Veronica Sekules
Hedgerow Cookery by Rosamond Richardson
Jane Grigson’s Cookery Book by Jane Grigson
Cooking with Vegetables by Marika Hanbury Tenison
The Home Gardener’s Cookbook by Clare Walker
Natural Baby Food by Anna Haycraft

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