October 1969

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Articles

• The Fight for the President's Mind—And the Men Who Won It

  Who got us into Vietnam? There is no way to say fairly now, for the responsibility is shared. Who Stopped the escalation? That story can be told.

  Townsend Hoopes

• Our Friend Pasquale

  Ann Cornelisen

• The War at Home

  Dan Wakefield

• Talk of a Sad Town

  John Updike

• Mirage-Seekers

  John L'Heureux

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Theater: A Mod Hamlet

  Melvin Maddocks

• Music: The Brooklyn Eagle

  Robert Evett

• Short Reviews: Books

  Fifteen brief book reviews

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Fiji

  Arthur Koestler

• Nigeria and Biafra

  Stanley Meisler

• Okinawa

  John Hughes

• Washington

  Michael Janeway

• Correction

• Looking for the Buckhead Boys

  James Dickey

• Ignorant Armies

  Janet Stevenson

• Admal

  Barbara L. Greenberg

• The Great Baldini: A Memoir and a Collaboration

  Edmund Wilson and Edwin O’Connor

• The Oakland 7

  “I wonder what the prosecution would have made of the Boston Tea Party,” said one of the jurors who refused to convict seven young men accused of conspiracy in connection with Oakland’s “Stop the Draft Week.” Here is the story of that trial and a painstaking examination of the verdict it produced.

  Elinor Langer

• The Young and the Old

  Notes on a New History, Part II

  Robert Jay Lifton

• Korea

  John Mcgahern

• The Colonel

  Ya Hsien

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