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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Book review round-up

A quick book review round-up:

A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet by Natalie Zemon Davis is taken up in The Book (New Republic).

THE MOST POWERFUL IDEA IN THE WORLD A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen is discussed in the New York Times, as is THE TWILIGHT OF THE BOMBS: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons by Richard Rhodes, THE KING'S BEST HIGHWAY: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America by Eric Jaffe, and THE EYES OF WILLIE MCGEE: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Alex Heard.

Finally, baseball histories are discussed this weekend in the Washington Post.
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak at 3:27 AM
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