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Sep 13, 2010

Centers & Edges


by Cliopatria


  • Giant's Shoulders #27, the history of science carnival, goes up at Entertaining Research on Wednesday 15 September. Nominate the best in history of science blogging since mid-August here or use the form.
  • Four Stone Hearth CI, the anthropology/archaeology carnival, goes up at Sapien Games on Wednesday 15 September. Mail your nominations of the best in anthropology/archaeology blogging since 1 September to: mail*@*nickhorton*.*net.

    • Anna Badkhen,"A Secret History of Violence," The Book, 13 September, reviews Oliver Bullough's Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus.

    Andrew Wheatcroft,"Paradise Lost," NYT, 8 September, reviews Christiane Bird's The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West.

    Heather Cox Richardson reviews Robert V. Remini's At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union and David S. Heidler's and Jeanne T. Heidler's Henry Clay: The Essential American for the Washington Post, 12 September.

    Susan Salter Reynolds reviews Mary Walton's A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot for the LA Times, 12 September.

    Marc Perrusquia,"Photographer Ernest Withers doubled as FBI informant to spy on civil rights movement," Memphis Commercial-Appeal, 12 September, exposes another of many FBI spies within the movement.

    Gerard De Groot reviews Andrew Bacevich's Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War and John W. Dower's Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq for the Washington Post, 12 September.


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    Chris Bray - 9/13/2010

    Robert Remini is eighty-nine years old, and he writes a book every two years. Whatever he has -- can we bottle some for the rest of us?

    Chris Bray - 9/13/2010

    I also love that the Commercial Appeal provides many of the documents they used for their excellent reporting:

    http://www.commercialappeal.com/withers-exposed/

    Dogged and smart reporting -- fascinating to read.