A review of The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism by George McKenna. A review of American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (and more and more). Monticello’s Shadows: What Jefferson’s fabled home reveals about the Founding Father’s mind and heart. Richard Brookhiser reviews Christopher Hitchens' Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography. A review of The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President by Julie M. Fenster. A review of Brian Donovan's White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917. A review of Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics by Bill Boyarsky. A review of Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination by Mihai Pacepa. The Year That Changed Everything: The 1968 election is four decades old, and yet we're still rehashing that moment—that era—in the 2008 contest, but why do we come back to it, and why won't it leave us alone? The introduction to The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
