Years ago I interviewed Natalie Zemon Davis, and I've had a little historian's crush there ever since. So my eye was caught by
this review-essay by David Bell in
The New Republic, which draws attention to the recent English-language publication of a book based of interviews she did with a French historian some years ago. The book is
A Passion for History, and Bell's review features "hope and play" -- not keywords you would instantly associate with many historians, perhaps. Bell reminds me how prolific she has been -- and how much NZD I still have to look forward to reading.
Bell also notes the growing field the French call "egohistoire" -- autobiographies by historians. (Maybe it would stretch to our blogs, too.)
Here's publication details on
A Passion for History here. (Who knew there was a Truman State University Press? Now we do.) Thanks
Cliopatria.
