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The following post is an excerpt from a work in progress, Stages, Pages, and Screens: A Short History of the Modern Media , under contract Wiley-Blackwell. This piece, on Taylor Swift, is one of a number of sidebar articles slated to appear in that book. Read More...
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New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen renders a sprightly rendition of mature adulthood with In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. The notion that middle age is essentially Read More...
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Here's a sneak preview of the cover of my forthcoming book, to be published by Oxford University Press later this year. The book looks at the way trajectories of American history are embedded in the careers of movie stars. It surveys the careers of six Read More...
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In Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century, John B. Thompson has written a page-turner about those who make them (virtual and otherwise) John B. Thompson begins this book with a publishing anecdote that will be familiar Read More...
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In More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, young Thai Jones resurrects a lost metropolis The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. I didn't plan to read this Read More...
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In The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It, journalist Timothy Noah documents a problem -- and, perhaps, the limits of logic The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. Read More...
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The following post was originally slated to be the conclusion of my book Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions. I have since decided to use something else instead. Still, this piece has a shape of it own that may have some appeal. I Read More...
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In America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Crisis of 1837, Alasdair Roberts takes the U.S. economy back to the future The following review was posted last night on the Books page of the History News Network site. Read More...
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In The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt explores the unconscious basis of morality The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. This book, the product Read More...
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In Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power, Andrew Nagorski observes Germany through a red-white-and-blue lens The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. Hitlerland: a term coined in Read More...
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In his new novel Watergate , Thomas Mallon bends reality to make it true The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. Even when it was as fresh as as the latest edition of a newspaper, Watergate was complicated. Read More...
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Master biographer Robert K. Massie triumphs again with Catherine the Great The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. As someone with little knowledge of 18th century Russian history, I picked up (or more Read More...
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In The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes shows how the past is subject to change The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. This novella tells an extraordinary story about a very ordinary man. The Sense Read More...
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