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Upper-class Nations

Topical Comment. By Roy Harrod. (Macmillan, Beyond the Welfare State. By Gunnar Myrdal. (Duckworth, 21s.) THESE two books might be read together for the appealing contrast they......

Richard Pares

The Historian's Business. By Richard Pares. (O.U.P., 25s.) THE death of Richard Pares in 1958 was the most grievous blow that British historical studies had suffered since the......

Tell Me About Yourself

The Promised Land: Memoirs of Shmuel Dayan. Edited by Yael Dayan. Translated by Sidney Lightman. (Routledge, 25s.) Land of the Black Buffalo. By Paul Smiles. (Faber, 16s.) .1 -......