Reappraisals (74 page)

David Cesarani,
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
(New York: Free Press, 1999).

Myriam Anissimov,
Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist
(Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1999).

Manès Sperber,
All Our Yesterdays.
Vol. 1:
God’s Water Carriers
; Vol. 2:
The Unheeded Warning
; Vol. 3:
Until My Eyes Are Closed with Shards
(Holmes & Meier, 1991-94).

Hannah Arendt,
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995).

Le premier homme
(Gallimard, Paris, 1994).

Louis Althusser,
L’Avenir dure longtemps
(Paris: Stock, 1993); trans:
The Future Lasts Forever
(New York: New Press, 1993).

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
(New York: Pantheon, 2004).

My Correct Views on Everything
(South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s, 2006).

Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi,
His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time
(New York: Doubleday, 1996).

His successor as Pope Benedict XVI.

From Oslo to Iraq
(New York: Pantheon, 2004). The present essay was first published as an introduction to this collection of Said’s essays.

Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France
(New York: Hill & Wang, 2001).

The translation under review,
Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past
, is a three-volume abridgment published in 1998 by Columbia University Press.

Michael B. Oren,
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Sam Tanenhaus,
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
(New York, Random House, 1997).

Ernest May and Philip Zelikow, eds.,
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali,
“One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964
(New York: Norton, 1997).

Philip Nash,
The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Jupiters, 1957-1963
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

William Bundy,
A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency
(New York: Hill & Wang, 1998).

John Lewis Gaddis,
The Cold War: A New History
(New York: Penguin, 2006).

T. R. Reid,
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
(New York: Penguin, 2004).

Jeremy Rifkin,
The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
(New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2004).

Timothy Garton Ash,
Free World: America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the West
(New York: Random House, 2004).

I am indebted for the above to the work of the sociologist Georg Vobruba of the University of Leipzig, who has done important studies of the impact of varieties of unemployment insurance on the postindustrial workforce. See, for example, his “Social Policy for Europe,” in
The Social Quality of Europe
, ed. Wolfgang Beck, Laurent van der Maesen, and Alan Walker (Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997) 105-120.

Moreover, in John Gray’s words, “Neoliberalism in Britain has proved a self-limiting project.”
Endgames
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997), 3.