Clive James,"How Broadway Conquered the World," Atlantic, November, reviews Larry Stempel's Showtime: A History Of The Broadway Musical Theater.

Thomas Weber,"New evidence uncovers Hitler's real First World War story," OUPress/BBC History Magazine, December, recalls his experience researching and writing Hitler's First War.

Brad Gooch,"The Last Hero," Daily Beast, 18 November, reviews Michael Korda's Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

Benjamin Nathans,"The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry," Nation, 20 November, reviews Gal Beckerman's When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry.

Kim Phillips-Fein,"Right from the Start," bookforum, Dec/Jan, reviews David Courtwright's No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America, J. R. Dunn's Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies , Michael Reagan's The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan's Principles Can Restore America's Greatness, and Dominic Sandbrook's Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right.

Felix Salmon,"Giant Sucking Sound," bookforum, Dec/Jan, reviews Matt Taibbi's Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.

Finally, farewell to Kathleen Jones, historian of Great Britain's health care system.