Week of Aug. 20, 2007

Up Front

History Buzz Bonnie Goodman

News at Home

The Housing Crisis: Caused by Lax Regulation Robert Brent Toplin

The Housing Crisis: Caused by the Bush Tax Cuts James Livingston

"Executive Privilege" David E. Kaiser

Opinion Polls and the Public Malaise Thomas C. Reeves

News Abroad

Getting Out of Iraq: The Return of Tricky Dick? William Marina

Iraqi Insurgents, ‘Werewolves’ and the Uses of History Perry Biddiscombe

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historian: This Week ... Scott A. Sandage Bonnie Goodman

Why Vincent Bugliosi Is So Sure Oswald Alone Killed JFK (Interview) Robin Lindley

The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti: Eighty Years After Ron Briley

Michael Gunter: He Blurbed a Book ... Should He then Have Reviewed It? An Exchange Between Michael Gunter, Keith David Watenpaugh, and Joseph A. Kechichia

Books

Review of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIAChalmers Johnson

Review of Frank Uekoetter's The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany Charles Clossmann