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Famous parents are the bad guys in this monster movie. Bertie's childhood friend and occasional lover, Clea, is the daughter of a toweringly successful Hepburnesque actress. Bertie and Clea both have regular acting gigs on Starwatch, and when an older actor named Thad Michelet arrives on the set, it turns out that he is burdened with an overbearing parent of his own--his father is a wildly famous novelist. The three bond on sight, with an audible magnetic click...
...historian Leopold von Ranke remarked of the Frenchman Michelet: "He wrote history in a style in which the truth could not be told." Political conventions are conducted in a style in which the truth cannot be told. The Democrats have spent the week citing the falsities of the Republicans in Philadelphia (the phony diversity, for example, all those conservatives wagging their heads and singing, "Red and yellow, black and white/ They are precious in His sight/ Jesus loves the little children of the world...
Medvedev likes to quote another historian, Jules Michelet, who defined his profession as "the action of bringing things back to life." Scarcely anyone does that better than Medvedev. All existing portraits of Stalin, even one drawn by a great novelist like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, seem bland in comparison with the real-life killer who charges through the pages of Let History Judge. Although the statistics amassed by Medvedev are overwhelming -- he conservatively estimates that no fewer than 5 million Soviet citizens were arrested from 1936 through 1938 -- it is the telling human detail that brings alive Stalin's wickedness...
...better historian than other men, Jules Michelet once observed, it is because I have a larger table. The French historian's graceful bow to the supremacy of broad and easily retrievable research over insight has now been carried to devastating extremes by the authors of this provocative book. Fogel, 47, is a professor of economics and history at the universities of Chicago and Rochester. Engerman, 38, is professor of economics and history at Rochester. Together they are the leading edge of a new wing of historians known as cliometricians because their methods marry Clio, the muse of history...
...believe that the course of history and steady human progress are inevitably linked. History has not yet made clear whether such a belief is a narcotic, a noble inspiration, a necessary myth or a tragic delusion. But the author shows where any reader's sympathies must lie. Like Michelet's histories, as Edmund Wilson describes them, this book "makes us feel that we ourselves are the last chapter of the story and that the next chapter...