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October 2011 - Posts
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Fair or unfair, not everyone has liked Meryl Streep's acting The following post is part of a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. @font-face { font-family: "Cambria";}@font-face { font-family: "Adobe Read More...
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Streep's transition from stage to screen -- to (another) screen The following post is part of a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. @font-face { font-family: "Cambria";}@font-face { font-family: "Adobe Read More...
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Scenes from a suburban childhood The following post is part of a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. Meryl Streep is an anomaly among the figures I’ve studied: a movie star who appears to have had Read More...
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Jim is in Boston, on his school's annual 10th grade swing through New England: the Mashantucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut, memorial sites in Salem and the battlefield at Concord Massachusetts, as well as the Hub (with a detour to Charlestown to see Read More...
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Meryl Streep's cinematic choices sketch a trajectory in the history of women's work. The following post is the first in a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. I can’t say she didn’t warn me. “The progression Read More...
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In The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta shows us the Rapture -- in all its confusing clarity The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. In the novels of Tom Perrotta, characters repeatedly stumble into the gap Read More...
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In Red Summer: the Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America, journalist Cameron McWhirter looks at a familar scene through a particularly vivid lens The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. Read More...
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Jim is observing the Columbus Day weekend. His recent reading has included Adam Hochschild's To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 . By this point, it's hard to tell a compelling new version of the First World War, as it's a topic Read More...
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In Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar provides a biographically-based set of profiles that's on the money The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. The novelty of this book, currently Read More...
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