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Adrift in Mythic Country: On Tom Zoellner’s “Rim to River”
Craig Childs reviews Tom Zoellner’s “Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Oh, We Knew Agnew: On Spiro Agnew’s Lasting Legacy
Jerald Podair, Zach Messitte, and Charles J. Holden reconsider the legacy of Spiro Agnew.
Mobsters, Union Leaders, and Studio Moguls: The Infamous 1945–46 Warner Brothers Strikes
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book “The Warner Brothers,” Chris Yogerst elucidates the history of the big Hollywood strikes of the 1940s.
The Poet and the Historian: On Julian Gewirtz’s “Your Face My Flag” and “Never Turn Back”
Sabina Knight reviews the poetry and historical writing of Julian Gewirtz in “Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s” and “Your Face My Flag.”
How Could He Possibly Lose? On Samantha Barbas’s “Actual Malice”
Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New York Times v. Sullivan.’”
A Not Completely Happy Warrior: On Samuel Freedman’s “Into the Bright Sunshine”
William Jones considers Samuel Freedman’s new biography of Hubert Humphrey, “Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.”
Always a Radical: A Conversation with Barbara Winslow
Eleanor J. Bader speaks with Barbara Winslow about her new book “Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle.”
Espionage Overreach: On Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression”
Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”
Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable: On Two New Books About Phillis Wheatley
Hollis Robbins reviews Vincent Carretta’s “Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” and David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.”
Nothing “Proto” About It: More on MIT Press’s New Radium Age Series
The pleasures of reading the titles from MIT Press’s new Radium Age series, writes historian of science Michael Gordin, lies in the science fiction genre not yet having congealed.
Buried in the Sand: On John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock” and Japanese America
Jonathan van Harmelen offers a historical account of the undersung, at times controversial, anti-racist western, John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock.”
One or More Asias?: On Nile Green’s “How Asia Found Herself”
Rana Mitter reviews Nile Green’s “How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding.”
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