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...February 2005, and the mood in Harvard Yard was not quite as quiet as the blog’s arrival. Bradley’s latest book??”Harvard Rules,” an account of the early years of former University President Lawrence H. Summers—was filling bookstores while at the same time Harvard professors were filling University Hall to protest their president. An unprecedented no-confidence vote would soon fuel the faculty’s revolt, and some observers thought Summers might not survive...
...wasn’t expecting Paul M. Barrett’s “American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion” to be a page turner. Not wanting to be a clichéd judger of book covers, I opened Barrett’s book??but with less than a healthy dose of enthusiasm. I’m not afraid to admit when I’m wrong. Though not without its share of flaws, “American Islam” is a masterfully written and insightful examination of an increasingly important...
...previous feminist historians in her 1996 book “Mothers of Invention.” Faust examined white society in the Civil War South by poring through primary-source documents—including the letters and diaries of more than 500 Confederate women. In an interview after the book??s publication, Faust summarized her conclusions: “It was not women embracing the possibility of liberation. It was women being forced into taking up new roles…That’s very different from the message of much of feminist scholarship...
...spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book??s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln as the photographs of him that interest the author. This fascination is typical for Trachtenberg, who is a professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University. “Lincoln’s Smile?...
Granted, Harry is incompetently pursuing girls by the sixth book??most sixteen year-old boys are—but he is not intended in any way to arouse the reader. Harry’s sexuality is just as much as part of the growing process, and just as much a source of reader empathy, as is his cracking voice and teen angst...