More Noted Things
A. C. Grayling,"A Man For All Seasons," Prospect, 21 June, reviews Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.
For 378 years, the Tuttles have farmed the same 134 acres near Dover, New Hampshire. It appears to be the oldest continuously operated family farm in the United States. Now, the recession has forced the family to put it on the market.
Algis Valiunas,"Scientists Fallen Among Poets," New Atlantis, Spring, reviews Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.
Jeremy Lewis,"The Greenes: A Talented Tribe of Trailbrazers," Telegraph, 24 July, draws on Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family, his collective biography of Graham Greene's extended family.
Christian Caryl,"Bury the Graveyard," Foreign Policy, 26 July, reviews Thomas Barfield's Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History.
Garry Wills,"Obama's Legacy: Afghanistan," NYRBlog, 27 July, breaks his silence about a meeting he and eight other historians had with the President and three staffers over a year ago.