Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things on the web that caught my eye this week:

Louis P. Masur reviews Simon Schama’s The American Future: A History.

Ted Widmer on what inaugural addresses tell us about America.

Nice piece on the Library of Congress reading room.

Check out everything in the new Common-Place.

Jon Wiener on “Rick Warren’s clout.”

Inaugurations’ greatest hits.

A redeeming quality of the Bush administration.

Alan Brinkley on George W. Bush’s failure to be pragmatic. Brinkley also reviews four books about the rise of Obama.

Historic White House floor plans.

Alan Wolfe on Obama’s attempt to reach out to conservatives.

Do we need a U.S. minister of culture?

David Brooks on the flaws in the free market.

John Thompson III, Georgetown basketball coach, is planning to walk 3.5 miles to the inauguration.

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