More Noted Things
Meghan O'Rourke,"The Man Who Made Oz," Slate, 21 September, reviews Evan I. Schwartz's Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story and Rebecca Loncraine's The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum.
Harvey A. Silverglate,"Setting a noble precedent," Boston Globe, 20 September, reviews Melvin I. Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. Hat tip.
Jonathan Brent,"Postmodern Stalinism, CHE, 21 September, argues that revisionism among Russian historians is renewing Joseph Stalin's historical reputation.
Dwight Garner,"Behind the Scenes of the Dark Cold War, Where an Even Darker Side Lurked," NYT, 22 September, reviews David E. Hoffman's The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy.
Evan R. Goldstein,"Intellectual Cold Warriors," CHE, 21 September, reviews David C. Engerman's Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts, Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, and Yevgeny Primokov's Russia and the Arabs: Behind the Scenes in the Middle East From the Cold War to the Present.
David Corn,"Clinton on Gore: ‘I Thought He Was in Neverland'," Mother Jones, 21 September, previews Taylor Branch's The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.
Eric Miller,"Day of the Dead?" Books & Culture, 21 September, reviews Sam Tanenhaus's The Death of Conservatism. Scott McLemee's"The King of Pompeii," IHE, 23 September, reflects on both Tanenhaus's book and the death of Irving Kristol.