More Recent Notes
Virginia Rounding,"The Lady Killer," Moscow Times/Context, 18-24 April, reviews Ana Siljak's Angel of Vengeance: The"Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World.
Kerry Howley,"Huzza for Commerce!" Reason, April, reviews A. K. Sandoval-Strausz's Hotel: An American History. Hat tip to Arts & Letters Daily.
Katharine Mieszkowski,"When bananas ruled the world," Salon, 19 April, reviews Dan Koeppel's Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World.
Caleb Crain,"'Move Closer, Please'," NYRB, 1 May, reviews"The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson," an exhibit currently at the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth, Texas. At Steamboats are ruining everything, Crain comments on snapshots from his own collecion.
Chris Patsilelis,"Big dig: The Panama Canal," Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 April, reviews Matthew Parker's Panama Fever: The Epic History of One of the Greatest Engineering Triumphs of All Time, The Building of the Panama Canal.
Farhang Erfani,"A Life Richly Lived," Internet Review of Books, April, reviews Esther Leslie's Walter Benjamin. Hat tip to wood s lot.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft,"Through the Past, Darkly," NYT, 20 April, reviews Tony Judt's Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century.
Kai Bird,"Debating Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Washington Post, 20 April, reviews Max Hastings's Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945.
Ross Douthat,"E Pluribus Nixon," Atlantic Monthly, May, reviews Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.
Michael S. Roth,"Opinions Inescapable," San Francisco Chronicle, 20 April, reviews Gerard J. DeGroot's The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade.
Daniel Byman,"Biggest Think," Washington Post, 20 April, reviews Philip Bobbitt's Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century. Hat tip to Mary Dudziak at Legal History Blog.