Weak Endnotes

Edward Rothstein,"The Way of No Flesh," NY Times, 25 February, reviews Tristram Stuart's The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times.

William Grimes,"The Tangled Web of the Truth Machine," NY Times, 2 March, reviews Ken Alder's The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession.

"Top 10 Most Sought After Out-of-Print Books in 2006," Washington Post, 25 February, is another testament to America's bad taste in books and a discouraging word to any historian whose book happens to be out-of-print.

Shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy, Harvard's Henry Graff asked Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., if his son would be returning to the University."No," he replied,"Arthur has always regarded Cambridge as a backwater." Two other noteworthy tributes to Schlesinger's memory: David Greenberg and Alonzo Hamby.

The number of major senior scholars that we've lost in the last 18 months is pretty sobering: Thomas B. Alexander, Thomas D. Clark, Marshall Fishwick, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, John Kenneth Galbreath, Clifford Geertz, Kermit Hall, Wolfgang Iser, Winthrop D. Jordan, Richard Leopold, John A. Munroe, Lawrence Levine, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., David L. Smiley, Frank Snowden, Jr., George B. Tindall, Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr., William Montgomery Watt, and James Harvey Young.