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Michael Kazin, "Rising Star," Washington Post, 22 October, reviews Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. Kazin and Robert McElvaine challenge the obvious reservations about an Obama presidential candidacy in comments here. See also: Frank Rich in the NY Times, Richard Cohen in the Washington Post, nonpartisan at Progressive Historians and TWF at Is That Legal?.

This excerpt, Tom Bower, "Conrad the Barbarian," London Times, 22 October, from Bower's forthcoming book, Conrad and Lady Black, helps to explain a lot. Perhaps we'll learn more from it about who actually wrote the 1280 page biography, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom.

When we last heard about John Lott, the peripatetic pro-gun economist and sock-puppeteer, he had left the American Enterprise Institute and was suing HarperCollins and the University of Chicago's Steven Levitt for defamation in Freakonomics. Now, it appears, he turns up at SUNY, Binghamton, as Dean's Visiting Professor of Economics. Cat's got at least nine lives.

Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 1:46 AM | Comments (1) | Return

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