Notebook June 2021
On the hero trail
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On Robert Penn Warren & Dixon Wecter.
On Robert Penn Warren & Dixon Wecter.
On the aesthetics and history of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.
On the genesis of the American nation-state.
On Franz Boas, Italian Renaissance drawings at the Morgan, true romance with Schumann & more from the world of culture.
On a campus addition, Carnegie musicians & more from the world of culture.
On Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Autumn by Ali Smith, Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, Ill Will by Dan Chaon, & I’d Die For You by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Westward skirmishes & war-torn lovers.
On how Abraham Lincoln dealt with the press and the founders’ legacy.