May 2007 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Pulpit | Women | Men | Writers | Communists Pulpit D J Taylor In Defence of the Literary Editor LR Women Carole Angier The Art of Propaganda Leni: The Life and Work Of Leni Riefenstahl By Steven Bach LR Charles Elliott The Art of Metamorphosis Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis By Kim Todd LR Pamela Norris A World in A Life The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History By Linda Colley LR Isabel Quigly The Nordic Maiden and the Latin Lover Ingrid: A Personal Biography By Charlotte Chandler LR Men Paul Johnson America’s Attic The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian By Heather Ewing LR Frank McLynn Top Drawer Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination By Neal Gabler LR Richard Sennett A Higher Class Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend By Elizabeth Wilson LR Jane Ridley Through the Keyhole The Queen’s Knight By Martyn Downer LR Alexander Waugh From Soho with Love Fulfilment and Betrayal By Naim Attallah LR Writers Derek Mahon Spice of Life Collected Poems By Louis MacNeice (Edited by Peter McDonald) LR Jeremy Lewis Docile Young Man The Angry Years: A Literary Chronicle By Colin Wilson LR Peter McDonald The Purring Poet Cecil Day-Lewis: A Life By Peter Stanford LR Peter Washington The Publisher & The Poet The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron By Andrew Nicholson LR Communists Richard Overy Hijacking Marx Comrades: Communism – A World History By Robert Service LR Donald Rayfield The Bad Seed Young Stalin By Simon Sebag Montefiore LR Jonathan Mirsky Reds Under The Bed An Un-American Life: The Case of Whittaker Chambers By Sam Tanenhaus LR
Charles Elliott The Art of Metamorphosis Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis By Kim Todd LR
Pamela Norris A World in A Life The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History By Linda Colley LR
Isabel Quigly The Nordic Maiden and the Latin Lover Ingrid: A Personal Biography By Charlotte Chandler LR
Paul Johnson America’s Attic The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian By Heather Ewing LR
Richard Sennett A Higher Class Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend By Elizabeth Wilson LR
Peter Washington The Publisher & The Poet The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron By Andrew Nicholson LR
Jonathan Mirsky Reds Under The Bed An Un-American Life: The Case of Whittaker Chambers By Sam Tanenhaus LR
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