History

Europa, Europa Europa, Europa

Tony Judt's Postwar, a massive summary of European public life since World War II, is a triumph of narrative that will allow readers familiar with the history to experience it agai...

Dec 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Charles S. Maier

Gene McCarthy Gene McCarthy

Eugene McCarthy was a pure original, a great and good man, whose fundamental historical achievement was to be the standard-bearer for a moral and philosophical campaign against the...

Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / George McGovern

The Faith of Eugene McCarthy The Faith of Eugene McCarthy

Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passi...

Dec 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill

Remembering Eugene McCarthy Remembering Eugene McCarthy

Eugene McCarthy's political life was full of contradictions: A conventional cold war liberal and fierce anti-Communist, in the Vietnam era, he was transformed into the standard-bea...

Dec 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

The Outsider The Outsider

Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, died 25 years ago this month. Today Catholic Workers are in Cuba, keeping vigil outside the US Naval Prison at Guantanamo Bay ...

Dec 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Colman McCarthy

John Lennon Has a Legacy John Lennon Has a Legacy

'Hello, Goodbye' is now just goodbye.

Dec 8, 2005 / The Editors

Letter of the Law Letter of the Law

America's Constitution: A Biography examines America's obsession with the Constitution--its origins, evolution and interpretation.

Nov 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jack Rakove

The Chosen People The Chosen People

The Jewish Century defies the conventional view of Jews as outsiders and traces their symbiotic relationship with Christians. A History of the Jews in the Modern World follows the ...

Nov 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

Profane Illuminations Profane Illuminations

New biographies of Rousseau and Voltaire help us appreciate how very fragile the eighteenth century's great movement of ideas was, and how remarkable it is that the Enlightenment n...

Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell

The Two-Way Squeeze The Two-Way Squeeze

The quiet purposefulness that characterized Rosa Parks's actions bears eloquent witness to the power of her protest.

Oct 25, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

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