Weak Endnotes

Tracy Lee Simmons reviews Donald Kagan's Thucydides: The Reinvention of History for the Washington Post, 23 December.

Matthew Price,"The making of the modern state," The National, 24 December, reviews Steve Pincus's 1688: The First Modern Revolution.

Ronan McDonald reviews Frank Kermode's Concerning E. M. Forster and his Bury Place Papers for the Guardian, 20 December.

Stefan Kanfer,"All That Jazz," City Journal, 22 December, reviews Terry Teachout's Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.

Carlos Lozada reviews Jennifer Burns's The Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne C. Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made for the Washington Post, 23 December.