Modern History Notes
Fergus M. Bordewich,"A Mixed Blessing," WSJ, 4 April, reviews Nancy Lusignan Schultz's Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City. Megan Marshall,"American Heiresses on the World Stage," NYT, 8 April, reviews Jehanne Wake's Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad.
Ronald C. White, Jr.,"Two Civil War anthologies," LA Times, 10 April, reviews Harold Holzer, ed., Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War and Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, eds., The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It.
George Scialabba for the Barnes & Noble Review, 30 March, Salil Tripathi for the Washington Post, 8 April, and Anita Desai,"A Different Gandhi," NYRB, 28 April, review Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.
Michael Korda,"Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley: Team of Rivals," NYT, 8 April, reviews Jonathan W. Jordan's Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership That Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe.
Franklin Foer,"Why the Eichmann Trial Really Mattered," NYT, 8 April, reviews Deborah E. Lipstadt's The Eichmann Trial.