Mostly Modern Notes
Anthony Kenny,"Was Cardinal Newman a saint?" TLS, 28 July, and Terry Eagleton,"Washed in Milk," LRB, 5 August, review John Cornwell's Newman's Unquiet Grave: The reluctant saint.
Tim Congden,"Low Tricks and High Finance," TLS, 28 July, reviews Niall Ferguson's High Financier: The lives and times of Siegmund Warburg.
Richard Vinen,"Myths of Charles de Gaulle," TLS, 28 July, and Andrew Knapp for the THE, 29 July, review Jonathan Fenby's The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved.
Michael Dirda reviews Bill Morgan and David Stanford, eds., Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters for the Washington Post, 29 July."Beat Memories," WP, 29 July, samples the 79 photographs in"Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg," an exhibit at Washington's National Gallery of Art.
Mark Lilla,"Tea Party Jacobins," NYRB, 27 May, reviewed a clutch of books about the new Right in America. David Jordan, Staughton Lynd, and Elliott Turiel challenge Lilla's analogy; and Lilla replies.
Jesse Walker,"Forced to Be Free," Reason, 29 July, places contemporary restrictive reforms in an historical tradition that doesn't see freedom as individual liberty. Walker knows his historiography.
Finally, farewell to Peggy Ann Pascoe, a historian of American women and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Oregon.