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Sketches From A Life

by George F. Kennan

George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy

by David Mayers

Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy

by Anders Stephanson


Living with Trollope

The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope

by R.H. Super

Trollope: Living With Character

by Stephen Wall

He Knew She Was Right: The Independent Woman in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

by Jane Nardin


Microscopy

The Mezzanine

by Nicholson Baker


The Real Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci (January–April 1989)

catalog of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London and Martin Kemp and Jane Roberts and Philip Steadman, introduction by E.H. Gombrich

Leonardo on Painting

edited by Martin Kemp, selected and translated by Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker

Michelangelo Draftsman DC (October–December 1988), and, in revised form, as Michel-Ange Dessinateur at the Louvre, Paris (May 13–July 31, 1989)

catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Michael Hirst

Michelangelo and his Drawings

by Michael Hirst


Four Prized Poets

Blackbird Bye Bye

by April Bernard

The Night Parade

by Edward Hirsch

Acrimony

by Michael Hofmann

The Daylight Moon and Other Poems

by Les A. Murray


The Grand Decider

The Warrior Queens

by Antonia Fraser

A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam
The Story of America's Rise to Power

by Geoffrey Perret

The Wages of War: When America's Soldiers Came Home
From Valley Forge to Vietnam

by Richard Severo and Lewis Milford

Technology and War: From 2000 BC to the Present

by Martin van Creveld

Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression

by Robert L. O'Connell

The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare

by John Keegan

War: Ends and Means

by Paul Seabury and Angelo Codevilla

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon

by Robert Jervis

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Spook of Spooks

Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA

by Edward Jay Epstein


Dithering in Nicaragua

Condemned to Repetition

by Robert A. Pastor

Somoza Falling

by Anthony Lake

War and Peace in Central America: Reality and Illusion

by Frank McNeil

Agony in the Garden: A Stranger in Central America

by Edward R.F. Sheehan


Sad Young Men

Moon Palace

by Paul Auster

Closer

by Dennis Cooper

Boomerang

by Barry Hannah


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