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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  June 16, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

George Packer visits Phoenix

Regina Munch reviews Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.

What does J.D. Vance believe?

The Joey Chestnut controversy

The EP

Magna Carta in America

Mattie Kahn reviews Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America.

Walking

Gertrude Himmelfarb and the historian’s craft

Victor Ray reviews Andrew Kahrl, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

Writer’s block

Eric Herschthal reviews Manisha Sinha’s The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.

Rickwood Field

Robin Givhan reviews Nell Irvin Painter’s A Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays.

A bookstore in a Brooklyn living room

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