Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
Beard, Mary. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations. Liveright: Norton. Sept. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9780871407160. $28.95. HISTORY Described by the New York Times as “the closest thing, if it exists, to a celebrity classics professor” in a story about her having stood up to some naysayers who abused her on the Internet, Cambridge scholar [...]
Reviews of Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams, Pete Daniel’s Dispossession, and Edward Jay Epstein’s The Annals of Unsolved Crime, plus a full list of social sciences reviews in the Mar. 15 issue.
Bacon, John U. Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football. S. & S. Sept. 2013. 336p. ISBN 9781476706436. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9781476706443. SPORTS College football is currently beset with scandal and sanctions, so one can be forgiven for expecting this report from Bacon to be a downer. And, indeed, drawing on [...]
Reviews of the Dictionary of American Regional English, Art in Oceania, and Spencer C. Tucker’s Almanac of American Military History, plus a full list of reference reviews from the Mar. 15 issue.
Barnes, Julian. Levels of Life. Knopf. Sept. 2013. 144p. ISBN 9780385350778. $22.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385350785. MEMOIR Not a conventional memoir—did you really expect something so mundane from the multi-award-winning author of Flaubert’s Parrot and The Sense of an Ending?—this book aims to “put together two things that have not been put together before, and the [...]
Reviews of Walter Cronkite IV and Maurice Isserman’s Cronkite’s War, Anne M. Fletcher’s Inside Rehab, and Robert Gellately’s Stalin’s Curse, plus a full list of social sciences reviews in the Mar. 1 issue.
Reviews of H.W. Brands’s The Man Who Saved the Union, R.A. Dickey & Wayne Coffey’s Wherever I Wind Up, and William Souder’s On a Farther Shore, plus a full list of audiobook reviews in the March 1 issue.
Everything you need to read up on America’s favorite pastime this spring.
Upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases of note.
Andersen, Christopher. These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack and Jackie. Gallery: S. & S. Aug. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9781476732329. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781476732343. BIOGRAPHY Once senior editor of People magazine, Andersen has a real track record when it comes to celebrity bios; he’s written 15 New York Times best sellers, with subjects [...]
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