Book Reviews

By Andrew Gamble. Westview. 221 pp. $51 cloth, $19.95 paper

Edited by Richard Pipes with the assistance of David Brandenberger. Yale Univ. Press. 256 pp. $27.50

By Lin Yutang. Morrow. 462 pp. $26

DEMOCRACY'S DISCONTENT: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. By Michael J. Sandel. Belknap of Harvard Univ. Press. 417 pp. $24.95

THE OPEN SORE OF A CONTINENT: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis. By Wole Soyinka. Oxford University Press. 176 pp. $19.95

By Thomas Nipperdey. Trans. by Daniel Nolan. Princeton Univ. Press. 760 pp. $69.95

Stanley I. Kutler et al., eds. Macmillan. 4 vols. 1,941 pp. $385

By Peter Ackroyd. Knopf. 399 pp. $35

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