- In the Denver Post there is a review of Tom Horn: In Life and Legend (University of Oklahoma Press) by Larry Ball. "Horn went to the gallows for gunning down a boy, a killing that is controversial to this day. While the evidence against Horn was overwhelming, many of his contemporaries as well as today's history buffs believe that his confession was the work of a drunken braggart known for telling tall tales. His confession as well as Horn's garrulousness on the stand led to his undoing. "Tom Horn talked himself into a noose," Ball maintains."
- Jed S. Rakoff has a piece in The New York Review of Books titled, "Why Innocent People Plead Guilty."
- On Slate there is a review of Marc Solomon's "gripping, fist-pumping new book" Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits--and Won (ForeEdge).
- Erwin Chemerinsky offers his review of Scalia: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy (Simon & Schuster) in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans by Gary Krist (Crown) is reviewed in this week's The New York Times. From the review: "Gary Krist, a lapsed novelist who now writes nonfiction narratives, chronicles the crazy excitement of the Storyville era in this well-reported and colorful tale of jazz, sex, crime and corruption."
- New Books in American Studies has posted an interview with John Morrow and Jeffrey Sammons who discuss their new book Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality (University Press of Kansas)
