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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 To visit Delhi today and stroll through the Red Fort is to take in but a fragment of what was once a remarkable architectural assemblage—a walled city of palaces, gardens, watercourses, mosques and pavilions. The last emperor to live here was Bahadur Shah Zafar II, whose capture during the 1857 mutiny marked the end of a line of rulers who had lorded over northern India for three centuries. Zafar was one of history’s great losers.
In 1945 Dwight Eisenhower was the man of the hour, and in 1952 Americans liked Ike well enough to put him in the White House for eight years. But by the end of his administration, overshadowed by the charismatic Jack and Jackie, he was widely seen as an old duffer who paid more attention to his golf swing than he did to running the country. Since his death, Ike has fared better. This adulatory new biography is just the latest in a long line.
by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Knopf, New York, 2007, $50. It’s long been called the Good War. And if ever a war had to be fought, World War II was probably it. Of course, that didn’t make the fighting or the dying any easier —either for the soldiers on the battlefields or for their families and friends on the home front.
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