Modern History Notes
Andrew Motion,"Meeting Harry," Guardian, 5 November, interviews Great Britain's last surviving veteran of World War I's trenches. Hew Strachan,"Back to the Trenches," TLS, 5 November, reviews Michael Howard, et al., A Part of History: Aspects of the British experience of the First World War.
Ian Bostridge,"The Court of Benjamin Britten," TLS, 5 November, reviews Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke and Donald Mitchell, eds., Letters from a Life: The selected letters of Benjamin Britten IV, 1952–1957.
Paul Harvey,"Post-Racial America? Not Yet.," Books & Culture, September/October, reviews Thomas J. Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.
The Volokh Conspiracy's Jim Lindgren claims that"this has easily been the most corrupt election in my lifetime." The Corner's Ramesh Ponnuru sees"Clintonite axe-grinding" in David Greenberg's"McCain Ran the Sleaziest Campaign in History? Not even close.," Slate, 5 November.
Our colleague, Rachel Leow's"The Politics of Grace (An Entreaty to Malaysia)," a historian's craft, 5 November, offers a thoughtful view of the American elections from abroad.
Scott McLemee's"Turning a Page," IHE, 5 November, offers experts' recommended reading for the President-Elect. Meanwhile, Fox News reports that briefers for Vice President -Non-Elect Sarah Palin's public appearances learned that she thought that Africa was, not a continent, but a country. Something more elementary is required.
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