Modern Western Notes
John Rogister,"Stinking, splendid Versailles," TLS, 17 June, reviews Tony Spawforth's Versailles, William Ritchey Newton's Derrière la Façade: Vivre au château de Versailles au XVIIIe siècle, and Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan's The Private Life of Marie Antoinette.
Elizabeth Redden,"Higher Ed and the Third Reich," IHE, 17 June, interviews Stephen H. Norwood, the author of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses.
In October, Yale University Press will publish Alan Allport's book on demobilization in Great Britain, Demobbed: Coming Home after World War Two. Beginning today, in conjunction with the book's publication, Allport will post-blog a year of British demobilization, June 1945-June 1946. His post-blogging follows the examples of Brett Holman's series at Airminded on the 1938 Sudeten Crisis and the 1909 Scareship Wave.
Janet Maslin,"This Baseball Patriarch Could Really Pitch Himself," NYT, 14 June, reviews Larry Tye's Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro,"An Empire of Vice," The Nation, 10 June, reviews T. J. English's Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba ... and Then Lost It to the Revolution, Louis A. Perez Jr.'s Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos, Carlos Moore's Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba, a Memoir, Tom Gjelten's Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause, Lars Schoultz's That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, and Daniel P. Erikson's The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution.
Maurice Isserman,"Afterimages," The Nation, 10 June, reviews Michael Casey's Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image.