Weak Endnotes

Ian Pindar reviews John Guy's A Daughter's Love, his new dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter, Margaret, for the Guardian, 30 May.

After picking up a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family has won the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for"the most important new book about America's founding era."

Joseph Tartakovsky,"Spirits Rising," WSJ, 14 May, reviews Linda Himelstein's The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire.

Giles Foden,"Fair stood the wind for France," Guardian, 30 May, reviews Anthony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy.

Finally, farewell to Patricia Crawford, a historian of women's lives in the 17th century, to Rupert Hall, historian of science and editor of the Isaac Newton papers, to Franklin H. Littell, a scholar of the Holocaust, to Ivan van Sertima, a controversial advocate of Afro-centrism, and to Ronald T. Takaki, a pioneer in American ethnic studies.