Nov 1, 2008
Weak Endnotes
Barry Gewen,"You Thought It Was Hell? War Is Sporty," NYT, 30 October, reviews Martin van Creveld's The Culture of War.
Gary Rosen,"Body of Knowledge," NYT, 31 October, reviews Russell Shorto's Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason.
Max Boot,"They Didn't Name That Lake for Nothing," NYT, 31 October, reviews David Hackett Fischer's Champlain's Dream.
Blake Gopnik,"Beside Rembrandt, Another Brush With Greatness," Washington Post, 2 November, reviews"Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered," an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Josef Joffe,"Entangling Alliances," NYT, 31 October, reviews George C. Herring's From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776.
Finally, farewell to Studs Terkel, the father of popular oral history in the United States.