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Apr 24, 2010

Weak Endnotes


by Cliopatria


Robert Service,"The shame of Orlando Figes," Guardian, 23 April, calls for reform of Great Britain's legal system, in light of his experience with Figes and the sock puppet.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,"Ending the Slavery Blame-Game," NYT, 22 April, calls for an end to the reparations debate.

Ronald Steel,"Theodore Roosevelt, Empire Builder," NYT, 21 April, reviews James Bradley's The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War and Evan Thomas's The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898.

Matthew Price reviews Max Hastings' Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 for the Barnes and Noble Review, 21 April.

Bill Keller,"Henry Luce, the Editor in Chief," NYT, 22 April, reviews Alan Brinkley's The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.


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Chris Bray - 4/24/2010

I like Crispin Sartwell's take on this one:

"it's an amazon reader's review. of course the reviewer might be your rival's wife, or your mother-in-law, or whatever. you have to learn to read in the genre/medium you're in."