Friday's Notes

Jeffrey Herf,"It Will Not Go Away," The Book, 4 February, reviews Robert S. Wistrich's A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad.

Thomas Rogers,"When smart people believe dumb things," Salon, 3 February, interviews David Aaronovitch, the author of Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History.

Adam Mars-Jones reviews Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds., A New Literary History of America for the Guardian, 31 January.

Ed Caesar reviews Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City for London's Sunday Times, 31 January.

D. D. Guttenplan,"Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein," Nation, 4 February, reviews Dickstein's Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression.

Sarah March reviews Charles Glass's Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, 1940-44 for the Guardian, 31 January.

Finally, a belated farewell to Hans L. Trefousse, a distinguished historian of 19th century American politics.