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A Class Performance

John Grigg PLEASURE WARS by Peter Gay HarperCollins, £29.99, pp. 324 T here are few sillier notions than that the bourgeoisie is a bastion of philistinism and the supreme......

Africa For The Partisans

Anthony Daniels AFROCENTRISM by Stephen Howe Verso, £20, pp, 337 A n entire country in Africa, Zimbab- we, owes its modern name to the once widespread European belief that......

Off Limits And On Record

Hugh Brogan ABUSE OF POWER: THE NEW NIXON TAPES edited by Stanley Kutler The Free Press, £20, pp. 675 I t has long seemed to me that the Water- gate affair might have been a......