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Jan 6, 2011Modern History Notes
"In the name of godlessness," Economist, 28 October, Michael Burleigh,"The Zealotry Of Free Thinkers," WSJ, 11 November, and Delano Lopez,"Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons," e-history, January, review Philipp Blom's A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (in England, Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in Pre-Revolutionary Paris).
Brian Doherty,"The First War on Terror," Reason, January, reviews Alex Butterworth's The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents.
Neil Caplan,"Public intellectuals and the Arab-Israeli conflict," TLS, 5 January, reviews Victor Kattan's From Coexistence to Conquest: International law and the origins of the Arab–Israeli conflict, 1891–1949, Jonathan Schneer's The Balfour Declaration: The origins of the Arab–Israeli conflict, and Efraim Karsh's Palestine Betrayed.
Benjamin Ivry,"Forgotten Witness to the Gulag," Jewish Daily Forward, 7 January, reviews Yuli Margolin's Voyage au pays des Ze-Ka, a memoir of the Holocaust, translated by Luba Jurgenson.
Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors,"The Newly Complicated Zora Neale Hurston," CHE, 2 January, discuss three heretofore unknown short stories by Hurston.
Kate Merkel-Hess,"The making of Charlie Chan," TLS, 5 January, reviews Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan: The untold story of the honorable detective.
Michael O'Donnell,"Solitary Confinement," Washington Monthly, Jan/Feb, and Margaret Soltan,"The Three Solipsisms of Tony Judt," review Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet.
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