May 19, 2009
More Noted Things
Alec Ryrie reviews Eamon Duffy's The Canon: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, for the THES, 7 May.
Sarah Churchwell,"A room of their own, at last," Guardian, 16 May, reviews Elaine Showalter's A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.
Bruce Kuklick,"America's First Legal Coup," Washington Post, 17 May, reviews David O. Stewart's Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy.
Jonathan Rauch,"Capitalism's Fault Lines," NYT, 14 May, reviews Richard A. Posner's A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression. During May, Posner is guest blogging at Andrew Sullivan about the subject of his book.
Finally, farewell to David Herbert Donald (1920-2009), a distinguished American historian.