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The Importance Of Being Eleanor

Hugh Brogan ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: VOLUME TWO 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook Bloomsbury, £30, pp. 686 E leanor Roosevelt is a fascinating but intractable historical subject. She......

Covering The Waterfront, Without Jokes

Mary Wakefield THE BOTTOM OF THE HARBOR by Joseph Mitchell Jonathan Cape, £12, pp. 295 C ritics fell on Joseph Mitchell's last book, Joe Gould's Secret, two pieces origi- nally......

Advice And Dissent

Caroline Moorehead ONCE UPON ANOTHER TIME by Jessica Douglas - Home Michael Russell, £16.95, pp. 231 W at they are doing is like using tanks to crush butterflies,' a Czech......