Things Noted Here & There

#50, an early modern edition of the festival, is up at Nick's Mercurius Politicus.

Alice Schroeder,"The Man Who Owned America," Washington Post, 24 May, reviews T. J. Stiles's The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Michael Dirda,"The Importance of Reading in Earnest," Washington Post, 21 May, reviews Thomas Wright's Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde.

Michael Kazin,"Socialist Studies," bookforum, June/August, reviews D. D. Guttenplan's American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone.

Glenn Altschuler,"Looking to America's past to find a path for the future," Boston Globe, 24 May, and David Brooks,"Mirror on America," NYT, 22 May, review Simon Schama's The American Future: A History.