Churchill spent money he did not have -- extravagantly. He relied upon rich acquaintances to bail him out. Still, sometimes the suspicious financial smoke comes only from a cigar.
My review of David Lough's No More Champagne in the January/February 2016 issue of the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/why-winston-churchill-was-s...
For the Wall Street Journal's "Five Best" series --
The Five Best Books on Parents & Children, 19 December 2015.
Very twentieth-century. (Bedford, Ackerley....)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/deborah-cohen-1450470282
Sonia Purnell's Clementine, reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, 23 October 2015 --
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-teller-of-hard-truths-1445634275
Indie rock's founding premise – that everyone could be a producer of art and culture, the more inventively off-center the better – is now a staple of the new media of the information age. My piece in the June Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/how-indie-rock-chang...
Readers of our American Historical Review critique who downloaded The History Manifesto this past week may have difficulty tracking some of our criticisms to the PDF and HTML that are now posted on the book’s website.
Peter Mandler and I have written a brief rejoinder to David Armitage and Jo Guldi's reply to our critique of The History Manifesto. Our critique and their reply are now available on the AHR's homepage. http://www.historians.org/
Anita Anand's Sophia, reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, 6 February 2015:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB22403670989460264059204580427890590994792
To understand how a spurned first lady can metamorphose into a presidential front-runner, let us follow one mastermind into the thicket of 19th-century marriage and politics. Review of Daisy Hay's Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli in the January/February Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/the-strangest-power-...
Peter Mandler and I have assessed the claims of The History Manifesto in a critique written for the American Historical Review. David Armitage and Jo Guldi will have a reply.
You can download a PDF of the critique and accompanying figures here.
Review of Tristram Hunt's Cities of Empire in the Wall Street Journal, 13 December 2014:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-cities-of-empire-by-tristram-hun...