Modern History Notes

Sharon Howard and Gavin Robinson are looking for hosts for Carnivalesque, History Carnival, and the Military History Carnival in the coming months.

Marcus Rediker,"dark page in our history," American Scholar, Summer, is Rediker's lecture at Mt. Vernon, where he received the George Washington Book Prize for his The Slave Ship: A Human History.

Noel Malcolm reviews Alexander Waugh's The House of Wittgenstein for the Telegraph, 7 September.

Sean O'Brien,"Auden not our contemporary," TLS, 10 September, reviews Edward Mendelson, ed., The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose Volume III, 1949-1955.

Adam Kirsch,"The God That Failed," NY Sun, 10 September, reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy's Left in Dark Times.

Niall Ferguson,"The End of 'Chimerica'," Standpoint, September, re-assesses the relationship of China and the United States.

Nicholas Wapshott,"A Few of the President's Men," NY Sun, 11 September, reviews Bob Woodward's The War Within.

Russell Jacoby,"Sean Wilentz, Out on a Partisan Limb," CHE, 19 September, finds the practice of academic shunning alive and well.

Jeffrey Goldberg,"The Wars of John McCain," Atlantic, October, portrays a candidate who sees"a world of organic conflict and zero-sum competition" and believes"in the power of war to solve otherwise insoluble problems."