More Noted Things

John Gray,"The democratic wish," The National, 15 October, reviews John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy.

Janet Maslin,"For Starters, a Satanic Svengali," NYT, 25 October, reviews Piers Dudgeon's Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of"Peter Pan".

Steven Hahn,"The Race Man," TNR, 26 October, reviews Robert J. Norrell's Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington.

Philip D. Zelikow,"The Suicide of the East," Foreign Policy, November/December, reviews Frederic Bozo's Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification, Archie Brown's The Rise and Fall of Communism, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed., The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989, Stephen Kotkin's Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment, Michael Meyer's The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Constantine Pleshakov's There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, David Priestland's The Red Flag: A History of Communism, Mary Louise Sarotte's 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe, and Victor Sebestyen's Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire.

Elizabeth Kolbert,"The Things People Say," New Yorker, 2 November, reviews Cass Sunstein's On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done.