A review of Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon Wood (and more and more). Atlantic Orientalism: A look at how language in Jefferson’s America defeated the Barbary Pirates. An interview with Thomas Fleming, author of The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers. A review of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles. A review of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America by Brian Balog. A review of Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation by John Majewski. More and more and more and more on The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan. A review of books on Abraham Lincoln. A review of Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal Feimster. A review of The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley. The New Deal made them "Right": Damon Root on remembering FDR's principled liberal opponents. A review of Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America by Elizabeth Fraterrigo (and more). Permissiveness wasn’t born in the ’60s: A review of The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965 by Alan Petigny. An interview with Jonathan Leaf, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties. Filling an infamous gap: The deleted 18 1/2 minutes on the Watergate tapes could soon be restored thanks to a low-fi discovery. An excerpt from The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century by James Livingston. Michael Novak on the truths Americans used to hold (and part 2 and part 3).
