Still More Notes
Francis Phillips reviews Simon Sebag Montefiore's Heroes: History's Greatest Men and Women for Mercator.net, 20 February.
Dwight Garner,"A Brother's Keeper: The Other Wordsworth," NYT, 24 February, reviews Frances Wilson's The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life.
Joseph P. Shivers,"15 Questions with Jill Lepore," Harvard Crimson, 18 February, interviews Lepore about her new novel, with Jane Kamensky, Blindspot.
David Glenn,"A Fresh Look at the Lives of Civil War Soldiers Reveals the High Price of Diversity," CHE, 27 February, reviews Dora L. Costa's and Matthew E. Kahn's Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War. It's a sophisticated statistical study by two UCLA economists.
Amos N. Jones,"The Leader of the Race," Books & Culture, 23 February, reviews Robert J. Norrell's Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. Withywindle will appreciate Norrell's argument. Me? Not so much.