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The Great Treasury Raid, by Philip M. Stern

by David T. Bazelon

Commentary, August 1964, p. 67

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    2. The Warren Commission by N.P., p. 24
    3. Five Years of Castro's Cuba by Theodore Draper, pp. 25-37
    4. A Matter of Faith by Dan Jacobson, pp. 38-42
    5. P.S. 165 by Richard Schickel, pp. 43-51
    6. Reflections on Trotsky by George Lichtheim, pp. 52-60
    7. The Coming Test of American Democracy by Hans J. Morgenthau, pp. 61-63
    8. How Many Israels? by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 64-67
    9. A New Deal for the Arts by Paul Goodman, pp. 68-70
    10. Peretz Off-Broadway by Irving Howe, pp. 71-73
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      1. Beyond the Melting Pot by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan
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      1. Poetry: A Closer Look by James M. Reid, John Ciardi, and Laurence Perrine, ...
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      Validation and Tenderness by Edgar Z. Friedenberg, p. 77 - 1 Review
      1. The Conditions of Human Growth by Jane Pearce and Saul Newton
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      Of Miths and Myths by Frank Kermode, pp. 78-82 - 1 Review
      1. The Promised End by Stanley Edgar Hyman
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-22
    2. Pius XII, the Jews and the German Catholic Church by Guenter Lewy, pp. 23-35
    3. Two Stories by Isaac Babel, pp. 36-40
    4. The Meaning of Negro Strategy by David Danzig, pp. 41-46
    5. The New Statesman & the English Left by John Mander, pp. 47-53
    6. Soviet Economic Developments by Oscar Gass, pp. 54-68
    7. New York Politics & the Liberal Party by Bernard Rosenberg, pp. 69-75
    8. Remembering Jewish History by Alfred Kazin, pp. 76-78
    9. Free Will (Again) by Henry David Aiken, pp. 79-82
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      Mailer's Campaign by Midge Decter, pp. 83-84 - 1 Review
      1. The Presidential Papers by Norman Mailer
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      1. Invisible Latin America by Samuel Shapiro
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      1. The State of the Unions by Paul Jacobs
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      1. The Scientific Intellectual by Lewis S. Feuer
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      1. The Trial of Charles de Gaulle by Alfred Fabre-Luce
      2. A Modern French Republic by Pierre Mendes-France
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      The Underclass by Ben B. Seligman, p. 91 - 1 Review
      1. Challenge to Affluence by Gunnar Myrdal
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      The Sense of Fact by George P. Elliott, pp. 92-98 - 1 Review
      1. Time of Arrival, and Other Essays by Dan Jacobson
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    March 1964 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 8-24
    2. Liberalism and the Negro by James Baldwin, Nathan Glazer, Sidney Hook, and Gunnar Myrdal, ..., pp. 25-42
    3. A Wedding in Brownsville by Isaac Bashevis Singer, pp. 43-49
    4. Maurice Samuel & Jewish Letters by Robert Alter, pp. 50-54
    5. The Oswald Affair by Leo Sauvage, pp. 55-65
    6. Peace in Our Time? by Hans J. Morgenthau, pp. 66-69
    7. Auteur! Auteur! by Marion Magid, pp. 70-75
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      Jewish Camp by Theodore Solotaroff, pp. 76-77 - 2 Reviews
      1. Once Upon a Droshky by Jerome Charyn
      2. Seven Days of Mourning by L.S. Simckes
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      The Free Criminal by George P. Elliott, pp. 78-79 - 1 Review
      1. Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry by Thomas S. Szasz
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      Foreign Interests by Ronald Steel, pp. 80-81 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Press and Foreign Policy by Bernard C. Cohen
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      Faith and the Issues by Warren Coffey, pp. 82-84 - 1 Review
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      From Ed. to Education by R.S. Baker, pp. 85-90 - 1 Review
      1. The Education of American Teachers by James Bryant Conant
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    April 1964 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-28
    2. The Revolt Against Ideology by Henry David Aiken, pp. 29-39
    3. These Are the Times by Ronnie Dugger, pp. 40-45
    4. Intermarriage & the Jewish Future by Marshall Sklare, pp. 46-52
    5. Stirrings in West Germany by Norman Birnbaum, pp. 53-58
    6. Isaac Bound by Medad Schiff, pp. 59-62
    7. Looking for Genet by Alfred Chester, pp. 63-67
    8. Letter from Formosa by Peter Schmid, pp. 68-69
    9. The Tradition of McClure by Ellen Moers, pp. 70-74
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      Dialectical Judaism by David Daiches, pp. 75-76 - 1 Review
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      Re-Imagining Society by Dennis H. Wrong, pp. 77-79 - 1 Review
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      Conscience & Revolution by Hilton Kramer, pp. 85-90 - 1 Review
      1. Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901-1941 by Victor Serge and Peter Sedgwick
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 8-36
    2. Vietnam by Oscar Gass, pp. 37-45
    3. Jewish Writing in England by Dan Jacobson, pp. 46-50
    4. Up from Apathy by Charles E. Silberman, pp. 51-58
    5. The Illusionless Man & the Visionary Maid by Allen Wheelis, pp. 59-67
    6. Senator Fulbright's New Foreign Policy by Hans J. Morgenthau, pp. 68-71
    7. Catacombs & Khazars by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 72-74
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      The Strangely Polite "Dr. Strangelove" by Midge Decter, pp. 75-76 - 1 Review
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      1. Dog Years by Gunter Grass
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      1. Reflections on Modern History by Hans Kohn
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    2. The Cold War in Perspective by George Lichtheim, pp. 21-26
    3. New Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls by Cecil Roth, pp. 27-32
    4. Schools, Slums, and Montessori by Martin Mayer, pp. 33-39
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    6. Automation and the State by Ben B. Seligman, pp. 49-54
    7. On the Eclipse of God by Emil L. Fackenheim, pp. 55-60
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      1. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 8-18
    2. The Negro & the Democratic Coalition by Samuel Lubell, pp. 19-27
    3. Rightists, Racists, & Separatists by David Danzig, pp. 28-32
    4. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Alexander M. Bickel, pp. 33-39
    5. The Yoke of the Torah by Mordechai Amer, pp. 40-46
    6. Antitrust in America by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 47-53
    7. Europe & the United States by Raymond Aron, pp. 54-60
    8. Breakthrough? by David Daiches, pp. 61-63
    9. Spanish Anti-Semitism Today by Ray Alan, pp. 64-66
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      1. The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern
      2. The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest by Edmund Wilson
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    2. The Negro & the New York Schools by Midge Decter, pp. 25-34
    3. The Trial of Jesus by Paul Winter, pp. 35-41
    4. German Diary by George Lichtheim, pp. 42-49
    5. The World of Wilhelm Reich by Philip Rieff, pp. 50-58
    6. Is Congress Obsolete? by Ronald Steel, pp. 59-64
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    9. Jewish by Meyer Liben, pp. 74-80
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      2. Race: The History of an Idea in America by Thomas F. Gossett
      3. The Negro Church in America by E. Franklin Frazier
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      2. A Strategy of Interdependence by Vincent P. Rock
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      La Vie Boheme by J.G. Weightman, pp. 88-92 - 1 Review
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 8-30
    2. Cell 772 by Willie Morris, pp. 31-39
    3. Three Tales by Isaac Bashevis Singer, pp. 40-45
    4. The New Italy & Its Politics by H. Stuart Hughes, pp. 46-51
    5. The Masada Dig by Daniel Gavron, pp. 52-56
    6. On Becoming a Writer by Ralph Ellison, pp. 57-59
    7. The Jacobs Affair by Alfred Sherman, pp. 60-63
    8. Mortal Statistics by Kathleen Nott, pp. 64-68
    9. Ideology by Daniel Bell and Henry David Aiken, pp. 69-76
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      1. The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
      2. Why Not Victory? by Barry Goldwater
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      1. Politics in a Pluralist Democracy by Lucy S. Dawidowicz and Leon J. Goldstein
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-30
    2. Religious Authority & Mysticism by Gershom Scholem, pp. 31-39
    3. Legislating in Texas by Willie Morris, pp. 40-46
    4. "I'm Sorry, Dear" by Leslie H. Farber, pp. 47-54
    5. Street of the Prophets by Gloria Goldreich, pp. 55-60
    6. Population Myths by Dennis H. Wrong, pp. 61-64
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      1. Night by Elie Wiesel
      2. The Terezin Requiem by Josef Bor
      3. Night and Hope by Arnost Lustig
      4. Diamonds of the Night by Arnost Lustig
      5. Herod's Children by Ilse Aichinger
      6. The Long Voyage by Jorge Semprun
      7. Blood from the Sky by Piotr Rawicz
    8. "In New York You Get Swallowed by a Horse" by Oscar Lewis, pp. 69-72
    9. Tevye on Broadway by Irving Howe, pp. 73-74
    10. Television & Canadian Culture by Neil Compton, pp. 75-80
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      Mocking Heroics by Marion Magid, pp. 81-83 - 1 Review
      1. To an Early Grave by Wallace Markfield
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      The Bloom and the Buzz by Kathleen Nott, pp. 84-87 - 1 Review
      1. The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
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      The Moral Society by George Kateb, pp. 88-91 - 1 Review
      1. The Radical Tradition by R.H. Tawney and Rita Hinden
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      Philosophy and Judaism by Werner J. Dannhauser, pp. 92-94 - 1 Review
      1. The Recurrent Pattern by Nathan Rotenstreich
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      That Slow Steady Progress by Robert Lekachman, pp. 95-100 - 1 Review
      1. Economic Growth and Employment Opportunities for Minorities by Dale L. Hiestand
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-28
    2. Negroes and Jews by Nathan Glazer, pp. 29-34
    3. Is There A Tragic Sense of Life? by Lionel Abel, pp. 35-40
    4. The Strange Death of Tory England by John Mander, pp. 41-45
    5. Converts by I.J. Singer, pp. 46-48
    6. The Strength of Robert Frost by Alfred Kazin, pp. 49-51
    7. A Matter of Conscience by Jules Feiffer, pp. 52-53
    8. Zangwill in Retrospect by John Gross, pp. 54-56
    9. Was Lenin Necessary? by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 57-62
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      1. The Uses of the University by Clark Kerr
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      2. A Time to Speak by Charles Morgan, Jr.
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      1. Worship and Ethics by Max Kadushin
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      Non-Legislative Arts by David T. Bazelon, pp. 82-88 - 2 Reviews
      1. Congress: The Sapless Branch by Joseph S. Clark
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