Greg Grandin's new book, FORDLANDIA: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City is reviewed by Ben Macintyre in the New York Times and by Aaron Leitko in the Washington Post. Also in the Washington Post, Michael Grunwald reviews THE BIRTH OF MODERN POLITICS: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams and the Election of 1828 by Lynn Hudson Parsons, and W. Ralph Eubanks' memoir THE HOUSE AT THE END OF THE ROAD: The Story of Three Generations of An Interracial Family in the American South is reviewed by Martha A. Sandweiss.
More in the NY Times: KISSINGER: 1973, the Crucial Year by Alistair Horne is reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn; and David M. Kennedy, Stanford, takes up DANGEROUS GAMES: The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan. A MORE UNBENDING BATTLE The Harlem Hellfighters’ Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home, by Peter N. Nelson, gets a brief mention.