Things Noted Here and There
The Roundtable on Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism continues at:
Part I, Notorious PhD
Part II, Historiann
Part III, Tenured Radical
Part IV, Blogenspiel
Part V, Notorious PhD, next Monday, Bennett responds to the whole discussion.
Suzannah Lipscomb,"Who Was Henry VIII?" History Today, April, attempts to penetrate current illusions about him.
Jean Strouse,"When the Economy Really Did ‘Fall Off a Cliff'," NYT, 22 March, looks at the American banking crisis of 1907. Strouse is the author of Morgan: American Financier and director of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.
Anthony Lane,"Waiting," New Yorker, 20 March, reviews Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck, eds., The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume I: 1929-1940.
Matthew Price,"Commuter Literate," BookForum, April/May, reviews Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life.
David Billet,"Mr. Market," Commentary, March, reviews Alice Schroeder's The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Hat tip.
Newsweek's cover story on the economy this week,"The Outrage Factor", features Michael Kazin's"A Historical Tour of Populism," George Kotkin's"Anger Could Make Us Stronger," Robert Frank's"Why Big Paydays Aren't All Bad," Rick Perlstein's"Our American Common Sense," and Fahreed Zakaria's"The Trouble with Subsidies."