Mar 14, 2009
American History Notes
Julia Wallace,"The Alcotts, Père and Fille," Harvard Magazine, March/April, reviews John Matteson's Eden's Outcasts.
Tim Burke offers a commentary on it.
David Garrow,"How American Ghettos Were Made," Washington Post, 15 March, reviews Beryl Satter's Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and the Black Migration to Chicago.
Nathan Heller,"The Hidden Heart of Cheever Country," Slate, 11 March, Geoffrey Wolff,"Suburban Suffering," NYT, 12 March, and Jonathan Yardley,"Good Writer, Bad Man," Washington Post, 15 March, review Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life.
Robert Dallek,"How Not to End Another President's War (L.B.J. Edition)," 100 Days, 12 March, revisits Lyndon Johnson's experience with the war in Vietnam.
Finally, Jon Stewart's confrontation with Jim Cramer is literally all over the web.
Tim Burke offers a commentary on it.