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Reviewing as First Draft of History

October 3, 2016 by Scott McLemee

Last week Michiko Kakutani reviewed the first of two volumes of the latest Hitler biography for the New York Times. I’ve got Ian Kershaw’s double-decker biography, which is huge and ought suffice, but I read the review anyway, just to see what the occasion for another biography would be, short of, say, the author locating the real Hitler diaries. He hasn’t, and I finished the review no wiser … [Read more...]

Scott McLemee

Scott McLemee writes the weekly column Intellectual Affairs for Inside Higher Ed and is part of the editorial staff for Jacobin magazine.

From 1995 until 2001, he was contributing editor for Lingua Franca. Between 2001 and 2005, he covered scholarship in the humanities as senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and in 2004 received the NBCC's award for excellence in reviewing.

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