Weak Endnotes

Carnivalesque LXXV, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at jleidl.ca!

Michael Sims reviews David McCullough's The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris for the Washington Post, 17 June.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews D. D. Guttenplan's American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone for the Guardian, 12 June.

Jason Sokol, "The Power Broker's Other Voice," Slate, 13 June, looks at Lyndon Johnson's conversations about the civil rights act in David C. Carter, Kent B. Germany, Guian A. McKee, and Timothy Naftali, eds., The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: Mississippi Burning and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act, June 1, 1964-July 4, 1964 (Vols. 7-8).

Touré, "Malcolm X: Criminal, Minister, Humanist, Martyr," NYT, 17 June, reviews Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.

Caitlin Flanagan, "The Madness of Cesar Chavez," Atlantic, July/August, reviews Miriam Pawel's The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

Scott McLemee, "Abuse of Power," IHE, 15 June, reviews Athan Theoharis's Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11.

Leon Neyfakh, "The truth is in there," Boston Globe, 12 June, profiles Errol Morris.

Liel Lebowitz, "History Game," Tablet, 15 June, reports on "America 2049," a facebook game that introduces you to immigration history and urges you to find the terrorist. NYU's Hasia Diner and her graduate students contributed artifacts that helped to make the game more sophisticated.