Apr 18, 2010

Weak Endnotes

by Cliopatria

The Giants' Shoulders #22, the history of science festival, is up at The Lay Scientist.

Military History Carnival #23 is up at The Edge of the American West.

David S. Reynolds,"Tocqueville: The Life," NYT, 16 April, reviews Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America.

Grace Elizabeth Hale,"Confederate History is About Race," CNN, 14 April, is by the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 and A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle-Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America.

Christopher Hitchens,"Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm," Guardian, 17 April.

John McWhorter,"Legitimacy, At Last," The Book, 16 April, reviews James T. Patterson's Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life--from LBJ to Obama.

Howard W. French,"Dirt off his shoulders: Barack Obama and the question of race," The National, 16 April, reviews David Remnick's The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.