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Jan 24, 2009

Weak Endnotes




Robert Darnton,"Google & the Future of Books," NYRB, 12 February, assays the place of Google Books in the Enlightenment enterprise.

Holland Cotter,"Where Lines Become a Kind of Language," NYT, 22 January, reviews"Raphael to Renoir: Drawings From the Collection of Jean Bonna," an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dwight Gardner,"The Mahvelous and the Damned," NYT, 21 January, reviews D. J. Taylor's Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age.

Daniel Kennefick,"Einstein's Worldview and Its Effects," American Scientist, 11 January, reviews Peter L. Galison, Gerald Holton and Silvan S. Schweber, Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture.

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Jon A. Nagl, an Oxford Ph.D.,"Let's Win the Wars We're In," vs. Colonel Gian P. Gentile, of the United States Military Academy at West Point,"Let's Build an Army to Win All Wars," Joint Force Quarterly, 1st Quarter, ground their debate about the future of American armed forces in their understandings of military history. Thanks to Chris Bray and Kings of War for the tip.



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Ralph E. Luker - 1/25/2009

Thanks for the correction.


Larry Povey - 1/25/2009

He must have a D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford. Oxford does not award Ph.D.s.