More Noted Things
Ben Wallace-Wells,"Heart of Darkness," The Book, 10 March, reviews Bertrand Taithe's The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa.
Eric Arneson reviews John Milton Cooper, Jr.'s Woodrow Wilson: A Biography for the Chicago Tribune, 4 March. Hat tip.
Robert Lacy,"Model Failure," Literary Review, March, reviews Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City.
On May 20, Yale's Jonathan Spence will give the 2010 Jefferson Lecture at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. His subject is"When Minds Met: China and the West in the Seventeenth Century." Since its establishment in 1972, Spence is the 15th historian to give the Jefferson Lecture. His predecessors include: Bernard Bailyn, Caroline Walker Bynum, Robert Conquest, John Hope Franklin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Donald Kagan, Bernard Knox, Bernard Lewis, Forrest McDonald, James McPherson, Jaroslav Pelikan, Barbara Tuchman, Emily Vermeule, and C. Vann Woodward.