Modern History Notes

James McAuley, "Talking About A Revolution," New Yorker, 9 August, interviews Maya Jasanoff, the author of Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.

Laura Marsh, "All About Eve," The Book, 9 August, reviews Michael Holroyd's A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers.

David Clay Large, "The Games the Nazis Played," NYT, 8 August, recalls the Berlin Olympic Games of 1936. Montana State's Large is the author of Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 and kindred books. Dwight Garner, "A Foreign Correspondent in Nazi Germany Who Interpreted It for the World," NYT, 9 August, reviews Steve Wick's The Long Night: William L. Shirer and "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".

Rick Perlstein, "What did Nixon say?" LA Times, 9 August, argues that we should be ready to be shocked anew by Richard Nixon's venality in what we learn from his testimony in the Watergate investigation.

Ryan Lizza, "Leap of Faith," New Yorker, 15 August, profiles Michele Bachman, a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. Lizza is particularly effective in examining her peculiar views of history. See also "The Books And Beliefs Shaping Michele Bachmann," Fresh Air, 9 August; and join a live discussion with "Ryan Lizza on Michele Bachmann" today at 3:00 p.m. e.d.t.