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Mar 29, 2006

Yet More Noted


by Cliopatria


Scott McLemee's"Oh, Good Lord ...," Inside Higher Ed, 29 March, reviews Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant.

Eugene McCarraher,"The Incoherence of Hannah Arendt," Books and Culture, March/April 2006, revisits Arendt on the centennial of her birth.

Kevin Woods, James Lacey, and Williamson Murray,"Saddam's Delusions: The View from the Inside," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006, is a double-length article with important excerpts from a recently declassified book-length report by the Pentagon Joint Forces Command's Iraqi Perspectives Project. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

Lest you go uninformed, George Mason University's men's basketball team is in the Final Four. More importantly, the University has the world's largest known community of history bloggers. They include: Jeremy Boggs, Sheila Brennan, Dan Cohen, Josh Greenburg, Meagan Hess, Stephanie Hurter, T. Mills Kelly, Sharon Leon, Paula Petrik, and Tom Scheinfeldt.

Yesterday, ClioWeb's Jeremy Boggs gave a presentation at GMU on the state of history blogging and edwired's Mills Kelly blogged the event. Here are Jeremy's presentation links. Rightly, I think, he gave Frog in a Well special praise for its design. Jeremy's favorite history blog? Rob MacDougall's Old is the New New,"one of the funniest, smartest, and most entertaining history blogs out there." Amen.

The New York Historical Society has named Doris Kearns Goodwin its American historian laureate and given her its inaugural $50,000 Book Prize for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, a collective biography of the president and his cabinet.

At 93, his Imperial Highness Prince Osman Ertugrul, the heir to the throne of the Ottoman Empire, gets along without his 285-room Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul. The tab for his rent-controlled two-bedroom flat over a restaurant on Lexington Avenue in New York is $350 a month.


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Jonathan Dresner - 3/31/2006

If memory serves, they're pretty conservative, too. So this is pretty much an in-house Republican issue.

Ralph E. Luker - 3/30/2006

Actually, I think you'll find that the NY Historical Society has fallen under the control of several well-endowed philanthropists and that historians have relatively little influence over what it does.

John H. Lederer - 3/30/2006

I eagerly await expansion of the thesis "Why historians are like the Bush administration"....(grin)

Ralph E. Luker - 3/30/2006

That is what the Bush administration does, isn't it?

John H. Lederer - 3/30/2006

Why do historians, when one of their luminaries is found to have violated ethical norms, respond by awarding honors to the person breaking the norms?

It smacks vaguely of some corruption riddled hierachial society in the 18th century that would respond to a military debacle by heaping awards and honors on the incompetent general, apparently believing that the saucer sized medallion for "Order of the Courageous Defender of the Realm and Stalwart of the Empire" would obfuscate the fact of the calamitous defeat.

Chris Bray - 3/29/2006

The New York Historical Society has a sense of humor.