Notes in Recent American History

Ben Ratliff,"Takin' It to the Streets," NYT, 16 February, reviews Tony Fletcher's All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music From the Streets of New York 1927-77. Dwight Garner,"Under a Strange, Soulful Spell," NYT, 18 February, reviews Nadine Cohodas's Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone.

John Rodden and Ethan Goffman,"Politics and the Intellectual: The Legacy of Irving Howe," The Common Review, Winter, re-examines Howe's legacy to the American left; and Tony Judt,"Revolutionaries, NYRBlog, 10 February, is the most recent in his series of memoir for the NYRB.

Chris Lehmann,"The Cut Man," The Nation, 18 February, reviews Taylor Branch's The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President. Richard L. Burke,"The President and the Prosecutor," NYT, 16 February, and David Greenberg for the Washington Post, 21 February, review Ken Gormley's The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr.

Russell Jacoby,"Why Intellectuals Are All Bad," CHE, 14 February, reviews Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Society; and Ross Posnock,"A Great Memoir! At Last!" The Book, 19 February, reviews Terry Castle's The Professor and Other Writings.