LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS 2009 Somerset Maugham Bill Clinton John Piper Don Coles

Description: LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSDecember 17th, 2009, Volume 31, Number 24 The London Review of Books is a British, fortnightly published magazine of literary, political and social commentary essays written by well-known authors, historians and academics. Typically the essays are long, well-researched, sometimes controversial, but always interesting. Exhibitions, film releases and book reviews are also covered, and each issue features a couple of poems. These back issues offer a great insight into the events and upheavals, political and social, global and local, that were occuring at the time. In this issue:David Runciman - The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House by Taylor Branch Andrew Bacevich - Social Work with Guns: America’s WarsMichael Wood - The Subtleties of Frank KermodeBilly Collins - Poem: ‘The Poems of Others’William Feaver - John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art by Frances SpaldingMiranda Carter - The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina HastingsCharles Glass - England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin SmithDon Coles - Poem: ‘Places’Peter Campbell - At the AshmoleanDavid Kaiser - The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers by Frank WilczekRobert Vitalis - Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter MaassBill Pearlman - Short Cuts: Hanging with PynchonAndrew Nathan - Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang by Zhao Ziyang, translated by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang and Adi IgnatiusMichael Wood - At the Movies - A Serious Man directed by Ethan Cohen and Joel CohenMiles Taylor - The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt; The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich EngelsGeoffrey Wheatcroft - My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography by Harold EvansSam Willetts - Two PoemsJérôme Tubiana - Why Chad isn’t Darfur and Darfur isn’t Rwanda: Chad’s War 44 pages The magazines are large-format, measuring approximately 38cm by 27cm. They have been folded, and will be sent folded. Condition: The magazine has previously been folded (and will be sent folded). Generally the condition is very good, showing light reading wear and some minor creasing, minor tear to edge of a couple of internal pages, some light staining to the edge of the front cover - visible in the picture below. The magazine pictured is the one you will receive. I accept returns, and if you’d like further information, please ask!DR 027 _gsrx_vers_1677 (GS 9.8.1 (1677))

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