20th Century Notes

Saul Austerlitz,"The Span," The Book, 15 July, reviews Kevin Starr's Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge.

Stefan Collini reviews Adam Sissman's Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography for the Guardian, 17 July.

John Summers,"What Politics Does to History," The Book, 19 July, reviews Carl Mirra's The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945–1970.

Michael Kazin reviews Alex Heard's The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South for the Washington Post, 18 July.

Dwight Garner,"Mississippi Invaded by Idealism," NYT, 18 July, reviews Bruce Watson's Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy.

Kevin Boyle reviews James T. Patterson's Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle Over Black Family Life -- from LBJ to Obama for the Washington Post, 18 July.