Michael Dirda reviews Paul Maliszewski's Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders for the Washington Post, 18 January.

JFrater,"Top 10 Incredible Early Firsts In Photography," The List Universe, 13 January (scroll down), reproduces important landmarks in photography. [Ed: JFrater should have supplied dates for each photograph. Also,"early firsts," as opposed to"late firsts"?].

Jonathan Yardley reviews Robert J. Norrell's Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington for the Washington Post, 18 January.

David Greenberg,"Fearless Leader," NYT, 16 January, reviews Adam Cohen's Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America and Burt Solomon's FDR v. The Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy.

Sam Roberts,"Rosenberg May Have Enlisted Two Spies," NYT, 17 January, looks at new revelations about Soviet era spying in the United States in Spies: The Rise and Fall of the K.G.B. in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev.

Anthony Lewis,"A New National Scripture," NYT, 16 January, reviews Eric J. Sundquist's King's Dream.

Alan Brinkley,"‘This Is Our Moment'," NYT, 16 January, reviews Evan Thomas's 'A Long Time Coming': The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama and three new books on public policy.