Harper's Magazine: July 1989

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July 1989

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Dale E. Boyer (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beaches; Seaside resorts PDF IMAGES
6-11	Letters/Department Letters On Writing without conflict, from March 1989: Letter By Douglas L. Childers On The lives of teenage mothers, from April 1989: Letter By Camille M. Caesar On Vietnam diary, from May 1989: Letter By Ed Hofmann Letter By J. Foch Ross On Users, like me, from May 1989: Letter By Edward Gral Letter By Elizabeth L. Sternberg Letter By Mark W. Miller On Mmm, mmm, simulacrum, from May 1989: Letter By Don Miesen On A nation of certified killers, from May 1989: Letter By William S. Bailey Jr. Letter By James K. Hambric Letter By Jill Wilson On Muck and its entanglements, from May 1989: Letter By Ella May Frazer Letter By Simon Halburian On Harper's index, from June 1989: Letter By Maurice Bruce Stewart Letter By John Allen Paulos On Dan, you're no Strunk or White, from June 1989: Letter By Jay Grossman PDF IMAGES
12-15	Notebook/Article Inspectors general By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Trump, Donald; Ethics; Tower, John G.(John Goodwin); Social ethics; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
18-22	Readings/Article The opening of American minds By Richard Rorty SEE ALSO: Philosophy; Politics and education PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Ethics; Gary Hart; Bush, George; Wright, Jim; Tower, John G.(John Goodwin); Biden, Joseph R.; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Academic subtitles By Leo Braudy SEE ALSO: Deans (Education); Employment references; Los Angeles; Recruiting PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Captain Hazelwood: What Exxon knew By Bruce Amero SEE ALSO: Alcohol use; Hazelwood, Joseph Jeffrey; Ship captains PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration The triumph of dysfunction By Vincent Desiderio SEE ALSO: Male nude in art; Rafts; Rescues; Géricault, Théodore PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article Corporate COINTELPRO SEE ALSO: Boycotts; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Poem Ode to Michael Milken By R.W. Grant PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Banning those other midgetman missiles SEE ALSO: South Carolina PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article The other kinder, gentler George By Eddie Robinson, Tom McEwen, Albert W. Bernstein, Phil Caruso, and Edwin B. Broderick SEE ALSO: Ethics; Friends and associates; Steinbrenner, George M.(George Michael) PDF IMAGES
28-31	Readings/Article Israel's fateful hour By Robert I. Friedman SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Interviews; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; 1973-; Views on Jewish-Arab relations; Harkabi, Yehoshafat PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo The huntmaster By Lauren Greenfield (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aristocracy (Social class); Hunters PDF IMAGES
34-36	Readings/Article Dream house By Bernard Cooper SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Cooper, Bernard; Childhood and youth; Los Angeles; Sick children PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Cartoon Dragnet haiku SEE ALSO: Chrysanthemums; Haiku, American PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article Mona Lisa on a lentil SEE ALSO: Miniature objects PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The performance artist's training manual By Linda Montano SEE ALSO: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Performance art PDF IMAGES
37-38	Readings/Fiction Subtotals By Greg Burnham PDF IMAGES
38-39	Readings/Fiction Erogenous South Africa By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Boyd Webb (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Decoys (Hunting); Ducks; Stuffed animals (Toys); Zebras PDF IMAGES
40-41	Article Weathering heights: And you thought America was in decline By Ron Carlson SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Maps; Sections, columns, etc.; Weather PDF IMAGES
42-50	Article In deepest gringolandia: Mexico By Bob Shacochis SEE ALSO: Resorts; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
51-54	Fiction Insulation By Rick DeMarinis PDF IMAGES
55-63	Article All the congressmen's men: How Capitol Hill controls the press By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Government and the press; 1945-1989; Press and politics; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
64-69	Article What sort of car-rt-sort am I? Junk mail and the search for self By Erik Larson SEE ALSO: Advertising, Direct-mail; Mailing list services industry PDF IMAGES
70-73	Article Hellroaring: Fighting last summer's fires By Peter M. Leschak SEE ALSO: Career as fire fighter; Fire extinction; Fire fighters; Forest fires; Peter M. Leschak; Yellowstone National Park PDF IMAGES
74-76	Article On the road to nowhere: Kerouac, re-read and regretted By Sven Birkerts SEE ALSO: Kerouac, Jack; On the road (Book); Youth PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 79 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Barhopping By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES