Peter Gwyn reviews David Starkey's Henry: Virtuous Prince for THE, 15 January, and finds it puffed from little evidence.

Joe Phelen,"The defence for Robert Burns," TLS, 14 January, reviews Robert Crawford's The Bard: Robert Burns, a biography.

Edward Rothstein,"Fragments Tell a Story of Pain and Pride," NYT, 14 January, reviews"America I Am: The African American Imprint," an exhibit that opened Thursday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Joanna Lewis reviews Richard Price's Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa for THE, 15 January.

Philip Kennicott,"The Age of Abe," Washington Post, 16 January, reviews"Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life," an exhibit at the National Museum of American History in Washington.

Janet Maslin,"A Monetary Horror Story That Looks Like Today's," NYT, 14 January, reviews Liaquat Ahamed's The Lord's of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World.

Joycelyn Bell Burnell reviews Graham Farmelo's biography of a physicist, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius for THE, 15 January.

Len Scott reviews Campbell Craig's and Sergey Radchenko's The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War for THE, 15 January.

Johann Hari,"‘Hitler Appointed Me His Biographer'," Independent, 15 January, profiles David Irving.