Weak Endnotes

Robin Wilson,"What Killed Kevin Morrissey?" CHE, 12 August. Ted Genoways and Kevin Morrissey met when they worked together at the Minnesota Historical Society Press and, when Genoways became the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, he asked Morrissey to be his right-hand man. Genoways and VQR were enormously successful, but now Kevin Morrissey has committed suicide and Ted Genoways's office is vacated.

Tom Palaima reviews William W. Cook's and James Tatum's African American Writers and Classical Tradition for the THE, 12 August. Palaima follows a long tradition claiming that John C. Calhoun held that"no black man was capable of learning such a challenging subject as Greek grammar." The only evidence that Calhoun thought or said this is a second hand account first published fifty years after the South Carolina Senator was supposed to have said it.

Michael Dirda reviews William H. Patterson, Jr.'s Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume 1 1907-1948: Learning Curve for the Washington Post, 12 August.

Scott McLemee,"The Chinese revolution's influence on French thinking," The National, 12 August, and Tim Unwin for the THE, 12 August, review Richard Wolin's The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s.