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Sunday's Notes
Allister Heath, "Survival of the Fittest," Literary Review, November, reviews Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World.
Richard B. Woodward, "The Melancholy Easel," NYT, 7 November, reviews Jed Perl's Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World.
Terry Eagleton, "Palace of Pain ...," Guardian, 8 November, reviews Alexander Waugh's The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War.
Alan Wolfe's "Uncommon Ground," NYT, 7 November, reviews Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.
Mark Lilla, "The Perils of ‘Populist Chic'," WSJ, 8 November, mourns the death of a conservative intellectual tradition in the United States.
Robert Dallek, "Barack Obama will never become one of America's forgotten presidents," Telegraph, 8 November, wagers that, "like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F.Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan - the most memorable of the 18 presidents who served in the last century - Obama seems likely to become an unforgettable personality who presided over a transforming administration." Hat tip
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