contents april 2016 • issue 441 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial Assistant Francesca Carington Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard Founding Father Auberon Waugh Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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pulpit 1 Andrew Lownie history 8 C P W Gammell
The Iran–Iraq War Pierre Razoux 9 Robert Irwin
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England & the Islamic World Jerry Brotton 11 Adrian Tinniswood
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century & the Birth of the Modern Mind A C Grayling 13 Caroline Moorehead
Spain in our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 Adam Hochschild • The Last Days of the Spanish Republic Paul Preston 14 William Doyle
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution Peter McPhee 16 Adam Sisman
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian (ed) Blair Worden biography & journals 17 Nicholas Roe
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey Frances Wilson 19 Stoddard Martin
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann Frederic Spotts 20 Jonathan Keates
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life & Treacherous Times of Alessandro de’ Medici Catherine Fletcher 22 Dominic Green
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father George Goodwin 23 D J Taylor
Devoid of Shyness: From the Journal, 1926–1939 Alan Pryce-Jones art & music 24 Tim Hilton
Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775–1815 Eric Shanes 26 Benjamin Ivry
Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer & His World Caroline Potter 27 William Robinson
The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100–1900 B N Goswamy
