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The New Threat to History

December 16, 1993 issue

Escaped Slaves of the Forest

Alabi's World

by Richard Price

December 6, 1990 issue

Some Like It Hot

For jazz to go so far, it needed impresarios and entrepreneurs committed to a cause. And it required public relaxation of an apartheid far stronger than we can now imagine.

The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945

by Gunther Schuller

Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

by Gunther Schuller

Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World

by Gene Lees

April 13, 1989 issue

The Caruso of Jazz

Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz

by John Chilton

Jazz Odyssey: The Autobiography of Joe Darensbourg

as told to Peter Vacher

May 12, 1988 issue

Slyest of the Foxes

Duke Ellington

by James Lincoln Collier

November 19, 1987 issue

All That Jazz

March 26, 1987 issue

Watch on Colombia

February 26, 1987 issue

The Jazz Comeback

Sitting In: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues and Related Topics

by Hayden Carruth

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

by Kitty Kelley

'Round Midnight

a film by Bernard Tavernier

La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Jazz Under the Nazis

by Mike Zwerin

American Musicians: Fifty-six Portraits in Jazz

by Whitney Balliett

In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s

by Francis Davis

A Life in Jazz

by Danny Barker, edited by Alyn Shipton

Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II

by Jason Berry and Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones

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February 12, 1987 issue

Letter

James Lincoln Collier

All That Jazz

March 26, 1987 issue

Murderous Colombia

Human Rights in Colombia as President Barco Begins

An Americas Watch Report

Los años del tropel: Relatos de la violencia

by Alfredo Molano

Estado y subversión en Colombia: La violencia en el Quindío Años 50

by Carlos Miguel Ortiz Sarmiento

Pasado y presente de la Violencia en Colombia

edited by Gonzalo Sanchez, edited by Ricardo Peñaranda

La paz, la violencia: testigos de excepción. Hechos ye testimonios sobre 40 años de violencia y paz que vuelven a ser hoy de palpitante actualidad

by Arturo Alape

Cese el fuego: Una historia politica de las FARC

by Jacobo Arenas

Colonización, coca y guerrilla

by Jaime Jaramillo and Leonidas Mora and Fernando Cubides

Bandoleros, gamonales y campesinos: el caso de la Violencia en Colombia

by Gonzalo Sanchez and Donny Meertens

La Guerra por la paz

by Enrique Santos Calderon, prologue by Gabriel García Márquez

Historia de una traición

by Laura Restrepo, with the assistance of Camilo Gonzalez

Narcotrafico imperio de la cocaina

by Mario Arango and Jorge Child

The Fruit Palace

by Charles Nicholl

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November 20, 1986 issue

Letter

Aryeh Neier

Watch on Colombia

February 26, 1987 issue

‘Playing for Ourselves’

Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie

as told to Albert Murray

The World of Count Basie

by Stanley Dance

January 16, 1986 issue

Robin Hoodo

The Sicilian

by Mario Puzo

February 14, 1985 issue

On the Watch

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

by David S. Landes

December 8, 1983 issue

The Lowest Depths

Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan

by Mikiso Hane

April 15, 1982 issue

Pact with the Devil

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

by Michael T. Taussig

December 18, 1980 issue

Publick Benefits and Private Vices

Paternalism in Early Victorian England

by David Roberts

Barclay Fox's Journal

edited by R. L. Brett

Aristocracy and the People: Britain 1815-1865

by Norman Gash

Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: Impact and Images of the Industrial Revolution

by Asa Briggs

April 3, 1980 issue

Should the Poor Organize?

Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward

March 23, 1978 issue

Dictatorship with Charm

October 2, 1975 issue

Vulnerable Japan

Japan: The Fragile Superpower

by Frank Gibney

Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E.H. Norman

edited by John W. Dower

A Political History of Japanese Capitalism

by Jon Halliday

The Development of Japanese Business 1600-1973

by Johannes Hirschmeier and Tsunehiko Yui

Japanese Economic Growth

by Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry Rosovsky

Iemoto: The Heart of Japan

by Francis L.K. Hsu

The Japanese Economy in International Perspective

edited by Isaiah Frank

Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy

by J.A.A. Stockwin

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July 17, 1975 issue

The Great Gramsci

Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

edited and translated by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith

Letters from Prison

by Antonio Gramsci, selected, translated, and introduced by Lynne Lawner

April 4, 1974 issue

Passionate Witness

Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study

by Irene L. Gendzier

February 22, 1973 issue