POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS: |
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BIGGEST NEWS STORIES: |
- Betsy McCaughey: NYT says historian's profile has risen sharply as a result of her involvement in
Obama health care debate"Resurfacing, a Critic Stirs Up Debate Over Health Care" -
NYT (9-4-09)
- Betsy McCaughey Addresses New York Times: Charges of Falsehoods But No Evidence -
Reuters, 9-5-09
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REVIEWS & FIRST CHAPTERS: |
- Steven F. Hayward: Another One for the Gipper
THE AGE OF REAGAN
The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989 -
NYT, 9-6-09
- Veronica Buckley: Undercover Queen
THE SECRET WIFE OF LOUIS XIV
Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon -
NYT, 9-6-09
- Janet Soskice: Two of a Kind
THE SISTERS OF SINAI
How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels -
NYT, 9-6-09
- Fred Kaplan: Planting the Seeds of the Sixties:
1959 The Year Everything Changed -
WaPo, 9-4-09
- Fred Kaplan: 1959 The Year Everything Changed, Excerpt -
WaPo, 9-4-09
- Norman Podhoretz: RELIGION Speaking in Generalities
WHY ARE JEWS LIBERALS?
WaPo, 9-4-09
- Marina Belozerskaya: HISTORY Getting Attached to the Past
TO WAKE THE DEAD
A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology -
WaPo, 9-4-09
- Edward M. Kennedy: Books of The Times Kennedy's Rough Waters and Still Harbors
TRUE COMPASS A Memoir -
NYT, 9-4-09
- Kennedy Memoir Doesn't Ignore Lows -
NYT, 9-3-09
- Sam Tanenhaus: History of conservatism shown in Tanenhaus new book -
SF Gate (9-1-09)
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SPOTTED: |
- NASA historian Andrew Chaikin: "Space historian" talks up lunar exploration at the
OMNIMAX Theater at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) -
The Bee (9-2-09)
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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)
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- 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: "Next Nostradamus" -
Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Last Stand of The 300" -
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Cities Of The Underworld: Maya Underground" -
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Nostradamus: 2012" -
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Next Nostradamus" -
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Decoding The Past: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy" -
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon" -
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Countdown to Ground Zero" -
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel: Zero Hour: The Last Hour of Flight"" -
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "The Day the Towers Fell" -
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 7pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "102 Minutes that Changed America / Witness to 9/11" -
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "The Crumbling of America" -
Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Manson" -
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "The Templar Code" -
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
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BEST SELLERS (NYT): |
NYT Non-Fiction Best Sellers List - September 13, 2009 - #1 - Michelle Malkin: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
- #3 - Ronald Kessler: IN THE PRESIDENT'S SECRET SERVICE
- #11 - J. Randy Taraborrelli: THE SECRET LIFE OF MARILYN MONROE
- #16 - Douglas Brinkley: THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR
- #17 - Peter S. Canellos: LAST LION
- #20 - C. David Heymann: BOBBY AND JACKIE
- #32 - Doug Stanton: HORSE SOLDIERS
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COMING SOON BOOKS: |
- 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
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