David Bromwich

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. He is the author of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic and editor of a selection of Edmund Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform. (November 2009)

From the Review

November 5, 2009: The Confessions of Bill

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch

July 16, 2009: Advice to the Prince

Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Leslie H. Gelb

Barack Obama: "A New Beginning"

November 20, 2008: The Co-President at Work

The Dark Side: The Inside Story on How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind

Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy by Charlie Savage

The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006–2008 by Bob Woodward

Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President by Stephen F. Hayes

The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan

November 6, 2008: A Fateful Election

April 3, 2008: Euphemism and American Violence

January 17, 2008: Justice for Cassy (letter)

October 25, 2007: The Fever Dream of Mrs. Stowe

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited with an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins

November 2, 2006: Lincoln at War

Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

October 19, 2006: How Lincoln Won

Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

April 11, 1991: Master of Regret

Hazlitt: A Life, From Winterslow to Frith Street by Stanley Jones