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Aug 4, 2009

August 3, 2009: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & FDR / Obama Parallels



POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS:

BIGGEST NEWS STORIES:

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

IN THE NEWS:

OP-EDs & BLOGS:

REVIEWS & FIRST CHAPTERS:

  • Kevin Mattson: No We Can't "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU UP TO, MR. PRESIDENT?" Jimmy Carter, America's"Malaise," and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country - NYT, 8-2-09
  • Richard Brookhiser: MEMOIR Conservatively Speaking RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement - WaPo, 8-2-09
  • Bradley Graham: MILITARY HISTORY A Warrior Fighting the Wrong War BY HIS OWN RULES The Ambitions, Successes and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld - WaPo, 8-2-09
  • Tracy E. K'Meyer: Civil-rights history lesson Professor's book examines Louisville's experience Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South - Louisville Courier-Journal, 7-19-09

PROFILED & FEATURED:

QUOTED:

  • Jonathan Alter"'Nice' Wasn't Part of the Deal": Still, by the mid-1930s, according to the Newsweek columnist (and F.D.R. historian) Jonathan Alter, Roosevelt was openly complaining that the nation's bankers seemed to have forgotten how much the government had done for them."In 1936," Mr. Alter said,"F.D.R. compared them to a drowning man who is saved by a lifeguard and four years later returns to ask the lifeguard angrily: 'Where's my silk hat? You lost my silk hat!'" - NYT, 8-1-09

INTERVIEWED:

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin: FDR had people over for drinks, too - Huffington Post (7-27-09)
  • Juan Cole interviewed about Afghanistan, Iran and other hot spots - www.roozonline.com (8-1-09)
  • Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze: Historian discusses new book on an academic exodus that saved lives and changed mathematics Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact Inside Higher Ed, 7-27-09

HONORED, AWARDED &APPOINTED:

SPOTTED:

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    EVENTS CALENDAR:

    • Inaugural Semester-long seminar on Constitutional History offered at N-Y Historical Society this fall: Lincoln's Constitution will be taught at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, on Thursday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. The seminar will be held on September 17 and 24 and on October 1, 15, 22, and 29, 2009. NYHS Press Release (7-20-09)

    ON TV:

    • BBC to launch new series on history of Christianity - Religious Intelligence, 6-19-09
    • C-SPAN2:BOOK TV Weekend Schedule
    • PBS History Detectives: Mondays at 9pm
    • History Channel: Weekly Schedule
    • History Channel: "Egypt: Engineering an Empire" - Monday, August 3, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "The Dark Ages" - Monday, August 3, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "Cities Of The Underworld: Underground Apocalypse" - Monday, August 3, 2009 at 6pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "How The Earth Was Made" - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 2-7pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "Life After People & That's Impossible: Eternal Life" - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "Ancient Aliens" - Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "The Hitler Conspiracy" - Thurdsay, August 7, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "Nazi America: A Secret History" - Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "Lost Worlds: Secret U.S. Bunkers" - Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 6pm ET/PT
    • History Channel: "Tora, Tora, Tora: The Real Story of Pearl Harbor" - Friday, August 7, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT

    BEST SELLERS (NYT):

      NYT Non-Fiction Best Sellers List - August 9, 2009

    • #5 - C. David Heymann: BOBBY AND JACKIE
    • #11 - Doug Stanton: HORSE SOLDIERS
    • #13 - Craig Nelson: ROCKET MEN
    • #18 - J. Randy Taraborrelli: MICHAEL JACKSON (THE MAGIC, THE MADNESS, THE WHOLE STORY, 1958-2009)
    • #23 - Larry Tye: SATCHEL
    • #32 - Richard Wolffe: RENEGADE

    COMING SOON BOOKS:

    • Gil Troy: Reagan Revolution : A Very Short Introduction, August 2009
    • William A. DeGregorio: The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Seventh Edition, August 15, 2009
    • Brooks D. Simpson: The Reconstruction Presidents (Paperback), August 18, 2009
    • Richard C. Hoagland: Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA (Revised), September 1, 2009
    • Douglas Hunter: Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World, September 1, 2009
    • Noah Andre Trudeau: Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership, September 1, 2009
    • Annette Gordon-Reed: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Paperback), September 8, 2009
    • Jon Krakauer: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, September 15, 2009
    • Dean C. Jessee (Editor): The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books, September 2009
    • James Patterson: The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller, September 28, 2009
    • Timothy Egan: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, October 19, 2009
    • Gil Troy, Vincent J. Cannato, eds.: Living in the Eighties, October 23, 2009
    • L. Fletcher Prouty: JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, (Paperback), November 1, 2009
    • Edward Kritzler: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge, (Paperback), November 3, 2009
    • Anthony Haden-guest: Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night (Paperback), December 8, 2009

    DEPARTED:

    • STUART I. ROCHESTER, 63: Co-Wrote Influential Book on POWs - WaPo, 8-1-09
    • Alan C. Hall taught technology and history at Gateway Community and Technical College and pushed for the onetime vocational school to offer more for its students - Chronicle of Higher Ed (7-27-09)


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