20th Century Notes

Michael Scammell,"Saint and Sinner," The Book, 8 February, reviews Stanislao Pugliese's Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone.

Toril Moi,"The Adulteress Wife," LRB, 11 February, reviews Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, trans. by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier.

Linda Christmas reviews Chris Welles Feder's In My Father's Shadow: a Daughter Remembers Orson Welles for the Telegraph, 1 February.

George Perkovich reviews Garry Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State for the Washington Post, 7 February.

Dwight Garner,"A Nice Guy in a Perfect Baseball World," NYT, 9 February, and Chris Haft,"Mays' life and legend transcend statistics," MLB.com, 9 February, review James S. Hirsch's Willie Mays: The Life the Legend. The MLB site features a video of Bob Costas's interview with Mays.

Finally, think outside the box for Valentine's Day.* Consider recent books by three friends of Cliopatria:

Alan Allport's Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War (Yale University Press)

Jonathan Rees's Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942 (University Press of Colorado)

Ed Schmidt's President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty (University of Massachusetts Press).

*On second thought, order several of each of these for yourself and your school's library. Inside the box might be better for your sig o.