TITLE: ATLANTIC Monthly Magazine
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ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 1984; VOLUME 254, No. 6
CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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COVER illustration by Michael C. Witte.

ARTICLES:
WHAT'S WRONG WITH CONGRESS? . . . GREGG EASTERBROOK . . . Congress is in crisis. Increasingly, it does the people's business neither efficiently nor well.

"My MASTER Is MY PURSE" . . . CONNIE BRUCE . . . Ivan Boesky plays for the highest stakes in risk arbitrage, a tense game that he has made much tenser.

PROFIT VERSUS EXCITEMENT.
I. A BORING WAY TO GET RICH . . . JOHN D. SPOONER.
II. A HIGH-RISK NUMBERS GAME . . . WILLIAM LANOUETFE.

HUMOR AND FICTION:
WHAT YOU PERSONALLY CAN Do ABOUT THE FEDERAL DEFICIT . . . ROY BLOUNT, JR.
EMPEROR OF THE AIR . . . ETHAN CANIN.
DROUGHT . . . GUY BILLOUT.

POETRY.
EMERSON ELEMENTARY . . . SHARON BRYAN.
SNAKE LAKE . . . THOMAS LUX.

REPORTS & COMMENT:
TRADE: THE OPENING OF CHINA . . . ZHAO ZIYANG.
A RESPONSE . . . PATRICK G. MADDOX.
MEDICINE: MARKETING AN OPERATION . . . THOMAS PRESTON, M.D.
NOTES: MS. BUXLEY? . . . CULLEN MURPHY.
TURKEY: FROM ANARCI-IYTO MODERNITY . . . FERGUS BORDEWICH.

BOOKS:
THE HEROES OF CAPITALISM . . . NICHOLAS LEMANN . . . The Spirit of Enterprise by George Gilder.
A MODERN WHITMAN . . . Collected Poems by Allen Ginsberg . . . JAMES ATLAS.
WHAT GOOD Is ARMS CONTROL? . . . JAMES FALLOWS . . . Deadly Gambits by Strobe Talbott.
THE COST OF SERVITUDE . . . EUGENE GENOVESE . . . Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis.
BRIEF REVIEWS . . . PHOEBE-LOU ADAMS.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
MUSIC: THE PASSION OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM . . . STEPHEN HOLDEN.
MOVIES: OUR GREATEST INVISIBLE . . . ACTOR . . . LLOYD ROSE.
THE ATLANTIC PUZZLER . . . EMILY COX, AND HENRY RATHVON.

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