Mostly Modern Notes
From CD Rom to Internet Website: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and The Walt Whitman Archive.
Anthony Grafton,"Mein Buch," TNR, 24 December, reviews Timothy W. Ryback's Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life.
Scott Jaschik,"‘Crisis' Seen in Key History Series," IHE, 15 December, explores the troubled production of Foreign Relations of the United States, a series that is the official record of U.S. foreign policy. KC Johnson first brought it to our attention.
Christopher Hitchens,"Suburbs of our Discontent," Atlantic Monthly, 9 December, and James Wood,"Like Men Betrayed," New Yorker, 15 December, review Richard Yates's first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), which is about to be released as a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
Katie Roiphe,"Under the Sign of Sontag," Slate, 14 December, reviews Susan Sontag's Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963, edited by David Rieff.
Michael Isikoff,"The Fed Who Blew the Whistle," Newsweek, 13 December, identifies Thomas M. Tamm as the government employee who told the New York Times that President Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to tap the telephones of private citizens. He's subsequently faced harassment by federal authorities.
Nikki Usher,"Reviewing Fauxtography: A blog-driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity," First Monday, 1 December, studies Little Green Footballs' exposure of doctored photography in the Israel-Hezbollah war of 2006. Thanks to Les Baitzer for the tip.