book review

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• SOURCE: TIME
  12/2/19
  

  Anne Boleyn Has Had a Bad Reputation for Nearly 500 Years. Hayley Nolan Wants to Change That

  by Suyin Haynes

  As the second wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn was one of the most powerful women in the world in the 16th century.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  10/31/19
  

  Two Histories of Financiers Profiting From Real Estate While Homeowners Go Belly Up

  by Jennifer Szalai

  “Homewreckers,” by Aaron Glantz and “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor show what happens when private speculators get buoyed by government largess while non-tycoons are largely left to fend for themselves.

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• SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
  9/6/19
  

  Review of “The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists”

  by Christine Talbot

  “Lisa Pace Vetter’s book, The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists, examines the political theories of seven women who were central figures in American political thought, despite their exclusion from the contemporary canon."

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  9/29/19
  

  Biographers Peter Longerich and Brendan Simms are Revisiting Hitler in a New Authoritarian Age

  by Talya Zax

  With nationalism and anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, Longerich’s “Hitler: A Biography” and Simms’s “Hitler: A Global Biography” look at the Nazi leader’s march to power. 

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  September 12, 2019
  

  The Activist Historian Reviews How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  by Michael T. Barry Jr.

  Ibram X. Kendi's much-anticipated second book, How to Be An Antiracist, hit shelves across the world last month.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/13/19
  

  Anne Gardiner Perkins's new book highlights life at Yale University for first female students

  Yale alumna Anne Gardiner Perkins digs into challenges and triumphs of Yale University’s first female students.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  June 27, 2019
  

  Are we telling the right story of America?

  Two historians explore the myths and truths that sustain a nation-state. THIS AMERICA: The Case for the Nation By Jill Lepore. Liveright. 150 pp. $16.95; THE HEARTLAND: An American History By Kristin L. Hoganson. Penguin. 399 pp. $30

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 3, 2019
  

  Around the World with Mao Zedong

  by Ian Johnson

  Julia Lovell's "Maoism: A Global History" traces the surprisingly wide influence of Chinese Communism. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/4/2019
  

  ‘Charles I's Killers in America’ Review: Regicides on the Run

  Among the men who signed a king’s death warrant were two who, in the American colonies, met with admiration and ambivalence.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  7/8/2019
  

  Alexandra Witze Reviews Seven Books that Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

  Alexandra Witze savours seven books commemorating the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/27/2019
  

  Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: New Collection Covers Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

  by Adriana Chira

  With chapters covering a broad geographic expanse (including the North and South Atlantic), the volume shows how Afro-descendants across the Western Hemisphere engaged with new liberal ideologies of inclusion while countering elite efforts to restrict the political openings created by these ideologies.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/1/2019
  

  Kinitra D. Brooks' and Kameelah L. Martin's New Book, The Lemonade Reader, Explores Beyoncé’s Visual Album

  by J. T. Roane

  The Lemonade Reader gathers a newer generation of Black feminist scholars to engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor around the Lemonade phenomena.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/30/2019
  

  Greg Weiner's New Book ‘Old Whigs’ Review: Rejecting the Extremes

  Today’s overheated politics make prudent statesmanship seem hopelessly distant, but our future may depend on it—yet again.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/10/2019
  

  Tim Bouverie's new book provides insight on Neville Chamberlain and the road to World War II

  Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War finds Chamberlain to be a failed leader in a time of crisis.

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  5/3/2019
  

  Sarah Knott's book, Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History demonstrates the labor of mothering

  For non-academics who want access to intricate innovative histories, this book offers a novel approach to the fields of gender studies and women’s history.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/30/2019
  

  Hallie Rubenhold addresses 'constant trolling' over Jack the Ripper book

  Angry reaction to story of victims’ lives is extraordinary, says Rubenhold

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/29/2019
  

  Ibram Kendi Pens Antiracist Reading List for the New York Times

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/22/2019
  

  Noel Malcolm's new book Useful Enemies centers on learning from the Turks

  This well-judged book, which centres on Western thinkers identifying positive aspects of Ottoman rule, complicates the idea of Orientalism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/24/2019
  

  Brenda Wineapple's new book illuminates the national debate over politics, principles and impeachment — in 1868

  by John Fabian Witt

  Brenda Wineapple’s timely story suggests, almost despite itself, that impeaching presidents and dreaming of justice are no substitutes for the work of doing justice and winning elections.

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• 3/31/19
  

  The Holocaust and the Christian World

  by Patrick Henry

  A new book offers reflections on the past of antisemitism and challenges for combatting it today.