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Oct 12, 2009

Week of October 12, 2009




Up Front

HNN Poll: Does Obama deserve the Nobel Prize for Peace?

HNN Hot Topics: Columbus Day

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan

HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform

Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Special Report

Robert Proctor vs. Big Tobacco
HNN Staff

News at Home

Roman Polanski and the History of “Rape-Rape” in America
Heather Munro Prescott

The “Tea Party” Movement and Its Misuse of History
Jeremy Stern

Why Justices of the Supreme Court Make Bad Historians
Ken Shear

The New Tammany Hall
Fred Siegel and Dan DiSalvo

News Abroad

Left and Right Against War
Murray Polner

Obama's Prize: Noble Hopes in an Ignoble World
Gil Troy

Obama, Afghanistan, and American History
William O. Walker III

Can Obama Redefine the "Real" in Realpolitik? The Nobel Committee is Betting that He Can
Mark LeVine

Obama as Nobelist, Obama as Game-changer
Juan Cole

Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment
Ira Chernus

Historians & History

Conquering the Demons from the Holocaust
Natan P.F. Kellermann

Happy Birthday ER!
Nancy Shear

The Unknown Connection between General David Petraeus and Harry Truman
Ryan Forman

Culture Watch

How the Short, Unruly Life of ‘Ramparts’ Magazine Changed America: An Interview with Peter Richardson
Aaron Leonard

Books

Review of Andrew Ross's Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Robert D. Parmet

Review of John R. Hale's Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
Jim Cullen

Review of Richard Deats's Marked for Life: The Story of Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Duane L. Cady

Review of George B. Kirsch's Golf in America
Luther Spoehr



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