A. J. Loftin reviews a history of witch-hunting, concluding that "If witches existed, John Demos would have found them."
In the global war on terror, no country looms larger than Pakistan, and in Pakistan, no institution looms larger than the army.
David Garrow on the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North.
Allison Herling Ruark and Daniel Halperin on AIDS in Africa.
Eric Liebetrau assesses Jay Parini's quest to find thirteen books that changed America.
William Anthony Hay on the decline and fall of the British Empire.
Max Byrd says that biographer Jon Meacham sums up Andrew Jackson's antithetical personality: "commanding, shrewd, intuitive yet not especially articulate, alternately bad-tempered and well-mannered."
Brooke Allen reviews two biographies of a man we thought we knew, Samuel Johnson.
HORSES AT WORK
Harnessing Power in Industrial America
By Ann Norton Greene
Illustrated. 322 pp. Harvard University Press. $29.95
Grant Alden ultimately applauds a book that helps us understand something about the carefully crafted visuals that have become so much a part of our shared culture.