Saturday Notes

Dan Gilgoff,"Scholar Becomes Chief Explainer in a ‘Mormon Moment'," NYT, 28 July, profiles Columbia University's Richard Bushman. See also John Fea's discussion of the article at Religion in American History, 3 August.

"The Early Pioneers," Economist, 26 July, reviews Nayan Chandra's Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globilization.

Peter Schjekdahl,"Painting by Numbers: Gustave Courbet and the Making of a Master," New Yorker, 30 July, reviews Petra ten-Doesschate Chu's The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth Century Media Culture.

Roger Lewis,"‘I'm an agile cat'," Telegraph, 2 August, reviews Sylvia Kristel's Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir.

Brink Lindsey,"The Aquarians and the Evangelicals: How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundamentalists created a libertarian America," Reason, July, is excerpted from Lindsey's book, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics. Count me among the skeptics. Hat tip.