Things Noted Here and There
George Will,"Gone with the Wind, Indeed," Washington Post, 25 June, notes the 70th anniversary of Margaret Mitchell's novel. Sales records suggest that Gone with the Wind, rather than Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, was the depression era's favorite desperation novel.
Eli Wiesel,"The Killing after the Killing," Washington Post, 25 June, reviews Jan T. Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz. Thanks to Jonathan Dresner for the tips.
Horst Möller,"Trabi, Stasi, Kinderkrippen," Rheinische Merkur, 22 June. The director of Munich's Institut für Zeitgeschichte criticizes the work of German social historians such as Kocka and Jarausch on daily life under the east German communist regime for treating it separately from the instruments of repression and surveillance of the one party state. The dictatorship informed all segments of society, Möller argues. Thanks to Nathanael Robinson for the tip.
Luc Sante,"The Nutty Professor," New York Times, 25 June, and Louis Menand,"Acid Redux," New Yorker, 26 June, review Robert Greenfield's Timothy Leary: A Biography.
Robert Alter,"Neo-Con or Not?" New York Times, 25 June reviews Steven B. Smith, Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism. Thanks to Richard Jensen of Conservativenet for the tip.
Finally, there's not enough for a carnival, just yet, but William J. Turkel does"A Roundup of Digital History Blogs," Digital History Hacks, 21 June. It's also a good moment to recommend Daniel J. Cohen's and Roy Rosenzweig's Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); and Manan Ahmed's"The Polyglot Manifesto," HNN, 22 May.