20th Century Notes
Lesley Chamberlain,"Powerless Lenin," TLS, 10 March, reviews Helen Rappaport's Conspirator: Lenin in exile.
Edmund Morris,"Why Is Obama Reading My Book?" Daily Beast, 9 March, considers what the 44th has to learn from the 26th.
Peter Kemp reviews Kenneth Slawenski's JD Salinger: A Life Raised High for London's Sunday Times, 28 February.
Peter Carlson reviews Francis Wheen's Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia for the Washington Post, 7 March.
Harold Seymour (1910-1992) earned a doctorate in history from Cornell and taught at South Carolina's Presbyterian College and Cleveland's Fenn College. Later, he was in administration at SUNY, Buffalo. But Seymour earned his professional reputation with the publication of a prize-winning three volume history of baseball (1960-1990) and, before the third volume was published, Alzheimer's Disease severely limited his intellectual capacity. For 30 years, he'd refused to acknowledge his wife's co-authorship of his books and now the Society for American Baseball Research seeks to correct the record. You have to wonder how many other wives and lovers of male historians of his generation ought to have been acknowledged as co-author.