Sunday Notes

Blake Gopnik,"In His Hands, the Spirit Lives," Washington Post, 15 July, reviews the first exhibit of the fifteenth century Florentine sculptor, Desiderio da Settignano, at the National Gallery.

Bertram Troeger,"Combating Clio's Amnesia," H-Ideas, 14 July, reviews Donald R. Kelly, Frontiers of History: Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century. This third and concluding volume in Kelly's project follows Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder (1998) and Fortunes of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga (2003).

At"Politics in Mind," Washington Post, 15 July, Matthew Dallek reviews James Reston, Jr.'s The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews; Bryan Burrough reviews Nigel Hamilton's Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency; and Karen DeYoung reviews Stephen F. Hayes' Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Most Controversial Vice President.

Finally, Cliopatria welcomes Scott Prinster and Occam's Trowel to the history blogosphere. Scott is a Unitarian/ Universalist minister and graduate student in the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin. His current research interest is in the relationship between religion and science in pre-Reformation and Reformation eastern Europe. He plays country music on his fiddle and, no doubt, knows that Lake Wobegone was founded by U/U missionaries who went west to teach liturgical dance to the Ojibwa Indians.