August 1974 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

- The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
- France
  Don Cook
  , pp. 6-9
- The "Today" Show
  Raymond A. Sokolov
  , pp. 10-17
- Innocent Bystander
  L.E. Sissman
  , pp. 18-20
- The Mail, pp. 21-24
- Jerry Ford: The Eisenhower of the Seventies?
  Rowland Evans, Jr. and Robert D. Novak
  , pp. 25-32
- Nakedness
  John Updike
  , pp. 33-35
- Whispered Into the Ground
  William Stafford
  , p. 36
- Computers Aren't So Smart, After All
  Fred Hapgood
  , pp. 37-45
- Folk Song
  Wallace E. Knight
  , pp. 46-49
- The Golden Silence of Ballyfungus
  Mary Manning
  , pp. 50-59
- The Gourmet Plague
  Karen Hess
  , pp. 60-62
- The Girl With the Sun in Her Eyes
  Henry Bromell
  , pp. 63-72
- In Memory of W.H. Auden
  William Matthews
  , p. 73
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  White House, Jailhouse, Oyster House (3 Reviews)
  Benjamin DeMott
  , pp. 74-77
  Notes on Some New Mobilities
  1. An American Life by Jeb Stuart Magruder
  2. Working by Studs Terkel
  3. Blue-Collar Journal by John Royston Coleman
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  The Mathematics of Slavery (Review)
  John W. Blassingame
  , pp. 78-81
  Time on the Cross, by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
  1. Time on the Cross by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
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  The Purple and Gold (Review)
  Dan Wakefield
  , pp. 82-83
  No Cheering in the Press Box, by Jerome Holtzman
  1. No Cheering in the Press Box by Jerome Holtzman
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  The Parallax Candidate (Review)
  Joseph Kanon
  , pp. 84-86
  The Parallax View (1974 Film), by Alan J. Pakula
  1. The Parallax View (1974 Film) by Alan J. Pakula
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (3 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 87-89
  Pursuit, by Ludovic Kennedy
  1. Pursuit by Ludovic Kennedy
  2. Hard Scrabble by John Graves
  3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
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  Short Reviews: Books (11 Reviews)
  Phoebe Adams
  , pp. 90-98
  The Dogs of War, by Frederick Forsyth
  1. The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
  2. Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A. by Jerome Greenfield
  3. The Unknown Soldiers by Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri
  4. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
  5. Spreading Fires by John Knowles
  6. Seven Long Times by Piri Thomas
  7. The Gooseberry Fool by James McClure
  8. Goodbye Lizzie Borden by Robert Sullivan
  9. The Infernal Grove by Malcolm Muggeridge
  10. Strindberg in Inferno by Gunnar Brandell
  11. Death of a Schoolboy by Hans Koning