May 7, 2010

20th Century Notes

by Cliopatria

James Mustich interviews Daniel Okrent, the author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, for the Barnes & Noble Review, 5 May.

Terry Eagleton reviews Norberto Fuentes's The Autobiography of Fidel Castro, trans. by Anna Kushner, for the Guardian, 1 May.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells,"Colonial Burden," The Book, 6 May, reviews Ted Morgan's Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War.

Christopher Hitchens,"Martin, Maggie, and Me," Vanity Fair, June, is an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Hitch 22: A Memoir.

Mark Lilla,"The Tea Party Jacobins," NYRB, 29 April, reviews Glenn Beck's and Kevin Balfe's Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, Bill Bishop's, with Robert G. Cushing, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, Max Blumenthal's Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party, David Frum's Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, and Marc J. Hetherington's Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism.

Michiko Kakutani,"From a Prophet, a Call for Reform," NYT, 6 May, reviews Nouriel Roubini's and Stephen Mihm's Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance.