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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  May 21, 2023 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Jim Brown

Making money and stoking fear at the Mexican border

Balancing individualism and community in Sweden.

Ted Widmer reviews Joshua Seitz, Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation

Springsteen’s Nebraska is flawed. That’s why it’s so good.

The Atlantic republishes this piece by Tim Keller

Richard Just reviews Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

The publisher of The New York Times on “objectivity” in journalism‘

David Blight reviews James Oakes, The Crooked Path to Abolition

Who was Phillis Wheatley’s “Mrs W–“?

Lauren Christenson reviews Todd Brewster, American Childhood: A Photographic History

American Graffiti

Should the writer try to reproduce the age she is writing about, or should she use her modern knowledge to critically reinterpret the past? 

Robert Zaretsky reviews Sarah Blakewell, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Free-Thinking, Inquiry, and Hope.

United States presidents and literary journals.

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