More Noted Things

Hilary Mantel,"Anne Boleyn, Queen for a Day," NYT, 22 January, reviews Alison Wier's The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn. You can read and hear Weir,"Arguing the Case for Anne Boleyn," NPR's All Things Considered, 24 January.

Stephen Mihm,"Capitalist Chameleon," NYT, 22 January, reviews Joyce Appleby's The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism.

Sidney Mintz,"Whitewashing Haiti's History," Boston Review, 22 January, looks at misreadings of Haiti's history.

Walter Isaacson,"Who Declares War?" NYT, 21 January, reviews John Yoo's Crisis and Command: The History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush and Garry Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State. Andrew Sullivan notes that Isaacson and Review editor Sam Tanenhaus acquiesce in the Times refusal to call waterboarding torture.

Sean Wilentz,"The Return of Ulysses," The Book, 25 January, reviews Joan Waugh's U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth.

Anne Applebaum,"Yesterday's Man?" NYRB, 11 February, reviews Michael Scammell's Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. Damon Linker,"The Illiberal Imagination," The Book, 22 January, reviews Michael Kimmage's The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism.

William Drozdiak reviews Richard Reeves's Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949 for the Washington Post, 24 January.

Paul Hockenos,"The Year That Was," NYT, 22 January, reviews Mary Elise Sarotte's 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe.