Apr 6, 2008
Sunday Notes
Death by Blogging. I'm not feeling so well, myself!In Helene Cooper,"In Search of a Lost Africa," NYT, 6 April, the Time's diplomatic correspondent returns to her native Liberia to find what remains of what she remembers. The article is excerpted from her book, The House at Sugar Beach, which will be published in September.
Fareed Zakaria,"Bhutto and the Future of Islam," NYT, 6 April, reviews Benazir Bhutto's Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West. Buster Olney,"The Unnaturals," NYT, 6 April, and Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post, 6 April, review Peter Morris's But Didn't We Have Fun: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870.
Charles Lane,"Can a Lawyer be a Hero?" Volokh Conspiracy, 4 April, features James Roswell Beckwith, who prosecuted the perpetrators of Louisiana's Colfax Massacre in 1873. The author of The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction, Lane has been guest-blogging this week at The Volokh Conspiracy.
David Garrow,"Measuring His Words," LA Times, 6 April, and Adam Fairclough,"His Own Man," Washington Post, 6 April, review Jonathan Reider's The Word of the Lord is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jeffrey Hart,"Right at the End," American Conservative, 24 March, argues that William F. Buckley's last gift to conservatism was his opposition to the war in Iraq.
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