History Carnival LXXI goes up later today at Frog in a Well: Japan.

"The Time Machine," Chicago Tribune, 26 October, takes a close look at the life and work of David McCullough. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

Caleb Crain,"A World of a Different Color," NYT, 28 November, reviews Ann Norton Greene's Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. See also: Crain,"Miles Per Oat," Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, 28 November.

Steven Rosen,"‘Our' Old Masters?" Denver Post, 20 November, reviews Cynthia Saltzman's Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures. Hat tip.

Neal Gabler,"The GOP's McCarthy gene," LA Times, 30 November, identifies a poisonous and persistent strain in the modern Republican Party.

Richard Holbrooke,"‘The Doves Were Right'," NYT, 30 November, reviews Gordon M. Goldstein's Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam.

Noam Scheiber,"Cycles of Doom," NYT, 28 November, reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence.

Finally, congratulations to Cliopatria's friend, Betsy Jacoway, whose book, Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation (Free Press, 2007), has won the Southern Association for Women Historians' Willie Lee Rose Prize.