Christopher Hitchens,"Free and Easy," Powells.com, 18 October, reviews Jerry Weinberger's Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought and suggests that Franklin's been deeply misunderstood by many of his readers.

Diane E. Dees,"When Sisterhood Was Powerful," Mother Jones, 12 October, reviews Jean E. Baker's Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists, which tells us much about the differences and tensions among them.

Roy Foster,"The Histories of Easter 1916," TLS, 18 October, reviews the historiography of Ireland's Easter Uprising and the latest contribution to it, Charles Townshend's Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion.

Thanks to Alfredo Perez at Political Theory Daily Review for the tip.