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Ralph E. Luker

Friday's Notes

Michael O'Sullivan, "An army for the afterlife," Washington Post, 20 November, reviews "Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor," an exhibit at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC.

Edward Rothstein, "Flights of Mind, Brought to Life," NYT, 19 November, reviews "Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop," an exhibit at Discovery Times Square Exposition in Manhattan.

Harvey J. Kaye, "Palin's Unlikely Hero," Daily Beast, 17 November, argues that Sarah Palin and much of the American Right misunderstand Thomas Paine.

Matthew Cobb, "How the Americans bought the French Resistance," TLS, 18 November, reviews Robert Belot's and Gilbert Karpman's L'affaire Suisse: La Résistance a-t-elle trahi de Gaulle?

Christopher Coker, "What Do Soldiers Read?" TLS, 18 November, reviews James Fergusson's A Million Bullets and Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing time and fighting wars.

"Academe and the Decline of News Media," CHE, 15 November, is a symposium featuring commentary by Stephanie Coontz, Mills Kelly, Jill Lepore, and Peter Sterns.


Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:57 AM 

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