Wednesday digest
New today from the Century:
- John Buchanan on presidents and power: "Both Thomas Jefferson and Lyndon Johnson were vastly talented and deeply flawed. And both understood power." (subscription required)
- Shirley Showalter reviews Sonia Sotomayor (subscription required)
- Paul Harvey reviews Bruce Levine (subscription required)
- Heath Carter on the moral contours of our new Gilded Age
- Steve Thorngate on the garment-factory disaster in Bangladesh
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