Topic - University Of Chicago Press

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Duke Ellington's America'

  Willis Conover, whose jazz broadcasts over the Voice of America helped to win the Cold War, once told me that as a teenager, as yet unformed in his musical tastes, he purchased many recordings of then-popular swing bands. One day the record-store owner said: "If you like these bands, why don't you listen to Duke Ellington? He's the real thing."

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  BOOK REVIEW: Stilted view from the academy

  "Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science From Bunk" by Massimo Pigliucci, a philosophy professor at the City University of New York, presents a highly approachable review and analysis of the unfolding and advancement of both the philosophy of science and science itself.

• BOOK REVIEW: Fighting the Nazi propaganda machine

  Although the United States had adopted the Neutrality Act in the late 1930s in response to aggressive dictators on the march, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was even more than usually acute in saying that he couldn't ask Americans to be neutral in their hearts and minds.

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