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• Originally published 07/22/2014

  Review of "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party" by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

  Bloom and Martin have produced a fascinating and comprehensive political history of the BPP, essentially told from the party’s perspective, which will certainly draw criticism from those contesting the violence and political legacy of the party.

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• Originally published 07/09/2014

  Review of Frank Zelko's "Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism"

  Zelco’s history comes off as somewhat of an insider account in which the diverse personalities and world views of Greenpeace founders are developed in considerable detail.

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• Originally published 07/07/2014

  Review of Keith Thomson’s "Jefferson’s Shadow: The Story of His Science"

  While books on Jefferson’s intimate life are superabundant, books on Jefferson’s views of science are infrequent.

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• Originally published 06/19/2014

  Does He Pass the Test?

  Geithner, while acknowledging the disappointments, would have us view the economic policy of these past seven or so years mainly as a success story, because things could have been much worse.

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• Originally published 05/08/2013

  Jeffrey Aaron Snyder: Review of James Patterson's "The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Changed America" (Basic Books, 2012)

  Jeffrey Aaron Snyder is a historian of education who writes about the twentieth-century United States.  He teaches at Carleton College.When did “the Sixties” begin? The answer, James Patterson says, is 1965, after which “life in the United States would never be the same again.” When President Lyndon Baines Johnson lit the national Christmas tree in December of 1964, he declared that “these are the most hopeful times in all the years since Christ was born in Bethlehem.” One year later, Watts was still smoldering while thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the White House to chant “Hey, hey, LBJ! How many kids have you killed today?” The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Changed America tells the absorbing story of how we got from the promise of Bethlehem to the nightmares of Vietnam and race riots.