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Dec 14, 2009

Things Noted Here & There


by Cliopatria


Mary L. Dudziak,"2009 Best Book Lists (and a worst book list)," Legal History, 13 December, rounds up lists of the Best and the Worst. Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, and Mary Karr's LIT: A Memoir appear to be the only books on more than one list of the Best.

Luke Slattery,"Doing battle for Troy over Homer's ghosts," The Australian, 2 December, reviews Caroline Alexander's The War that Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Illiad and the Trojan War. Hat tip.

Drake Bennett,"The mystery of Zomia," Boston Globe, 6 December, reviews James C. Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.

Ben Terris,"Scholars Nostalgic for the Old South Study the Virtues of Secession, Quietly," CHE, 6 December, looks at the Abbeville Institute's contemporary academic secessionists.

Farewell to Paul Samuelson, author of Economics: An Introductory Analysis and the first American Nobel laureate in economics.


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Jonathan Jarrett - 12/14/2009

That <em>Chronicle</em> article on the Abbeville Institute is a marvel. Rarely have I seen anything on the Internet on such a potentially dangerous topic where none of the commenters was obscene and where so many of them on both sides were informed and civil. The comments, in fact, are better reading than the article.