Additional Modern History Notes

Malcolm Gladwell,"Pandora's Briefcase," New Yorker, 10 May, reviews Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory.

Daisy Goodwin,"Norman Stone: poster boy for booze, fags and mischief," London's Sunday Times, 2 May, profiles the author of The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War. It is reviewed by Dominic Sandbrook.

Michelle Goldberg,"What the Pill Gave Birth To," TAP, 22 April, reviews Elaine Tyler May's America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation.

In an excerpt from his next book, Bob Dylan in America, Sean Wilentz replies to claims by the folk singer's critics that he is a plariarist.

As the British elections reach their climax, Simon Schama comments on the"Three-Way Race."