Sunday's Notes

Jennifer Howard,"The Birth of 'Frankenstein'," CHE, 7 November, reviews Charles E. Robinson, ed., Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, the original two-volume novel of 1816–1817 from the Bodleian Library Manuscripts by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley).

Douglas Brinkley,"The Warrior President," Washington Post, 2 November, reviews Jon Meacham's American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, David S. Reynolds's America in the Age of Jackson, and Robert V. Remini's Andrew Jackson.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Fred Kaplan's Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Chandra Manning,"The Travails of Lincoln's Transition," reviews Harold Holzer"s Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861, and Michael F. Bishop,"Commander-in-Chief," reviews James M. McPherson's Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander In Chief for the Washington Post, 2 November.

Michael Dirda reviews Paul Mariani's Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life for the Washington Post, 2 November.

Benjamin Schwarz,"The Reel Thing," Atlantic, November, reviews David Thomson's history of American film, "Have You Seen …?"

Lynne Olson,"Overcoming Privilege," Washington Post, 2 November, reviews H. W. Brands's Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Ruth Franklin,"Unlikely Savior," NYT, 31 October, reviews Thomas Keneally's Searching for Schindler: A Memoir and Mietek Pemper, et al., The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List.