Weak Endnotes
Gregory Cowles,"Stray Questions for: Woody Holton," Paper Cuts, 6 November, interviews the University of Richmond historian, whose new book on Abigail Adams appeared this week.
Edward Rothstein,"At the Morgan, the Jane Austen Her Family Knew," NYT, 6 November, reviews"A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy," an exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan.
Philip Kennicott,"FDR's stimulus package for artists: No cause for nostalgia," Washington Post, 8 November, reviews"1934: A New Deal for Artists," an exhibit at Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
Mark Harris,"Short Cuts," NYT, 5 November, reviews Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography.
Carlin Romano,"Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall," LA Times, 8 November, reviews 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, and Jeffrey A. Engel, ed., The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989.
Louis Bayard,"Doh! The joke's on us," Washington Post, 8 November, reviews John Ortved's The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History.
Ted Widmer,"Electoral excitement, all over again," Washington Post, 8 November, reviews Dan Balz's and Haynes Johnson's The Battle for America: The Story of an Extraordinary Election.