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Oct 28, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Martha Bayles |Hole in..

Mausoleums, statues, monuments will never be erected to me…. Panegyrical romances will never be written, nor flattering orations spoken, to transmit me to posterity in brilliant colors. —John Adams to Benjamin Rush March 23, 1809John adams, david mccullough’s loosely woven, colorful biography of the second president, was published to great acclaim in 2001 and remains one of the best-selling books ever written about the American Revolution.

May 29, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Martha Bayles |Hole in.. |Mark Helprin |John J. DiIulio

American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright and written and directed by Cord Jefferson, is based on a 2001 book called Erasure, by the California author Percival Everett. Like many people, I got a kick out of the film’s opening sequence, which aims a rare satirical barb at the current academic obsession with silencing anyone—faculty, speaker, student—who in the interest of teaching and learning sets off one of many speech-related tripwires on campus.

Sep 21, 2023 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Martha Bayles |Hole in.. |Christopher Caldwell |Hadley Arkes

My title is a line from “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Der Zauberlehrling), a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1797 and set to music in 1897 by French composer Paul Dukas.