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With a few careers, even planning does not help much. Says Houston Architect Leslie Davidson, 31, 4½ months along with her second child: "As far as it being chic to be pregnant, no way. Clients see the maternity dress, and they panic. They think, 'She'll be sick all the time. She'll be delivering when my job is under construction...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle ∙ Happy to Be Here, Garrison Keillor Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
This point is not new, but it is amply demonstrated and expanded in After the Fact, a collaborative effort by two young writers and teachers of history (both received Ph.D.s from Yale in 1973). Authors Davidson and Lytle want to interest others in the challenges and occasional romance of their discipline. Historians, they insist, are not simply messengers in time, bearers of immutable facts: "For better or worse [they] inescapably leave an imprint as they go about their business: asking interesting questions about apparently dull facts, seeing connections between subjects that had not seemed related before, shifting and rearranging evidence...
...each subject makes different demands on the historian. The Salem witch trials of 1692, for example, call for close scrutiny of a single, tiny village, while the U.S. decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima demands a broad inquiry into the dynamics of overlapping committees and bureaucracies. Finally, Davidson and Lytle show how certain historians have faced and stared down these problems...