Weak Endnotes
Nahid Siamdoust,"Iran's past and future," The National, 18 March, reviews Homa Katouzian's The Persians: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Iran.
Jenny Uglow reviews Celina Fox's The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment for the Guardian, 20 March.
Sean Wilentz,"Discovering Tocqueville," TAP, 19 March, reviews Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America.
Steve Weinberg,"The Honorable Press Baron," The Beast, 19 March, reviews James McGrath Morris's Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power.
Brenda Wineapple,"A Wise Unknowingness: On Violet Gibson," The Nation, 18 March, reviews Frances Stonor Saunders's The Woman Who Shot Mussolini.
James Campbell,"Sylvia Beach, the midwife of Modernism," TLS, 17 March, reviews Keri Walsh, ed., The Letters of Sylvia Beach.
Tony Judt's"A manifesto for a new politics," Guardian, 20 March, is a brief of his argument at greater length in Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents.
Finally, farewell to Charles Muscatine, a distinguished scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer and proponent of education reform. Early in his career, he was fired and subsequently re-instated at UC, Berkeley.