Herodotus and Modernity
Carnivalesque LXVII,"When the Ancient/Medieval and the Modern Collide, and How to Survive the Aftermath. Starring Indiana Jones, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama!" is up at The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar.
Jedediah Purdy,"The Coast of Utopia," NYT, 19 February, reviews William H. Goetzmann's Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism. See also: Blake Wilson,"Stray Questions for Jedediah Purdy," Paper Cuts, 20 February.
Robert Bateman reviews Benson Bobrick's Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas for the Washington Post, 22 February.
Annette Gordon-Reed,"Color Blind," Washington Post, 22 February, reviews Martha A. Sandweiss's Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love And Deception Across the Color Line.
Jason Goodwin,"Mongolia and the Madman," NYT, 20 February, reviews James Palmer's The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia.
Kevin Baker,"Blood on the Street," NYT, 19 February, reviews Beverly Gage's The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror.
Carl Hiassen,"On the Beach," NYT, 20 February, reviews Steven Gaines's Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach.
Jonathan Yardley,"A Good Writer Is Hard to Find," Washington Post, 22 February, reviews Brad Gooch's Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor.
Jane and Michael Stern,"Nirvana Express," NYT, 19 February, review Rory MacLean's Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail From Istanbul to India.
Thomas Mallon,"Storyville," NYT, 19 February, reviews Dan Baum's Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans.