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Kean was the first superstar, an Olivier onstage and an Errol Flynn off, a rake, a wastrel and yet an actor, as Critic William Hazlitt said, who had "a gleam of genius." If he were at the end of his career today, he would be writing his memoirs in Malibu...
For most students the book will represent their main chance of learning about U.S. history. For their middle-aged parents, such titles bring back memories of George Washington with an inked-in mustache, and their own introduction to a unified, changeless heritage: a view of America shaped by its great...
Some changes represent an inclusion of facts previously suppressed. Some are simply the result of shifting historical interpretations, still highly contested or questionable. Inevitably a changing country will reshape its vision of its own past, for good or ill. Frances FitzGerald has kind words for some of the new texts...
Without a return to some consensus in society at large, no future textbook historian will ever again have Muzzey's authority or his winning "tone of self-assurance, his assumption of his own legitimacy in the American tradition." ∙
DIED. Stan Kenton, 67, patriarch of progressive jazz; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When Kenton crashed onto the West Coast jazz scene in 1941, his fortissimo "walls of brass" sound struck some critics as "sheer noise," but his popularity endured long after the demise of swing. He helped introduce...