One of the discussion threads on The Corner yesterday and today involves conservative historians and the books they write. So if you’re interested, go over there and check it out. Meantime, here’s a e-mail from Jay Bergman of Central Connecticut State University :

I hope you’ll pardon my blowing my own horn, but since you’ve contributed posts to NRO today on conservatives who write history, I believe I can be included in that category. My recent “Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov,” published three months ago by Cornell University Press, is harshly critical of the Soviet Union — as one would expect a biography of a leading Soviet dissident to be. For more information, in case you’re curious, see: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5389; and also: http://www.historybookclub.com/pages/nm/product/productDetail.jsp?skuId=1046513249