LIVING HISTORY—September 2008
PERSPECTIVE
Chinese Monkeys on Our Backs
by Thomas Fleming
VIEWS
Beginning With History
by Clyde Wilson
Revisions and deviations.
David Hume: Historian
by Donald W. Livingston
The core of the bookshelf.
The Dean of Western Historians
by Roger D. McGrath
Billington and the frontier culture.
BIOGRAPHY
George Garrett
by Fred Chappell
1929-2008.
REVIEWS
How Posner Thinks
by Stephen B. Presser
Richard A. Posner: How Judges Think
plus
Tom Landess on Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company, Mark Royden Winchell, ed.
Clark Stooksbury on Andrew J. Huebner’s The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture From the Second World War to the Vietnam Era
Catharine Savage Brosman on Christian Wiman’s Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
CORRESPONDENCE
Letter From Ukraine: Dispelling the Darkness of Secularism by Matthew A. Rarey
VITAL SIGNS
Historiography: Studies of Character
by Sean R. Busick
Commonweal: Be Not Afraid
by Mark Shea
Sports: Umpires
by John Willson
COLUMNS
The Bare Bodkin
by Joseph Sobran
Under the Black Flag
by Taki Theodoracopulos
Heresies
by Aaron D. Wolf
The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert
European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov
The American Interest
by Srdja Trifkovic
In the Dark
Brideshead Revisited, The Dark Knight
by George McCartney
What’s Wrong With the World
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
DEPARTMENTS
POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
POETRY
Post Card, Cage, and Tróia by William Baer
ON THE COVER
Cover by Sandy Faulkner.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.
Entries(RSS)
Poor Dr Brezianu, his hypersensitivity over the word "Vlach" is an indication that he's been in Washington DC for too long. A man with a Breton (Breizh) name ought to be more interested in celebrating his Gallic (Wallachian/Galician) heritage as well as that of Maramures, where they still carve Welsh-style love spoons. Only the language has changed brother!
I'm of Welsh and French descent and if someone called me a Vlach I'd be proud. Now calling me a Bohunk or honky or cracker does not apply, but if I was Hungarian, or a Floridian, then I'd still be proud.
One historical work absent from recommendations given in this issue that I would recommend is James Truslow Adams' seven-volume series _The March of Democracy_, which starts in the colonial period and takes the reader up to the Kennedy Administration. A very readable, general narrative history, getting harder to find these days. I bought my 1930's-era printing (that does not include Vol. VII) for $25 used.
Glad to see that one of my favorite poets -- Fred Chappell -- has contributed a piece on one of the most underappreciated writers of our time -- George Garrett.
Dr. Wilson - I have a copy of Huizinga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages, translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch. The back cover claims that this translation corrects errors in the previous translation. Is this true? Or should I try to get a copy of the first translation?