From HNN, a review of Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott. From Literary Review, a review of James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin. A review of The Shawnees and the War for America by Colin G. Calloway and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears by Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green. A review of Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 by Jack Beatty. A review of House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs. A review of Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials by Bill Neal.
A review of The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie. A review of A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. Round Britain with a pint: A review of The Longest Crawl by Ian Marchant. From The Atlantic Monthly, a review of Women and the Making of the Modern House and Key Houses of the Twentieth Century. A review of Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There From Here by Akiko Busch. Just Beneath the Surface: Swimming across a river is primal, erotic, solitary, communal and a time to contemplate things big and small. A review of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin.
A review of Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America by Joan Shelley Rubin. LA history, written on the walls: A review of Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art by Steve Grody. A review of The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy by Joan Quigley. A review of The Man Who Invented Flight: George Cayley and the First Airplane by Richard Dee. A review of The Final Call: In Search of the True Cost of our Holidays by Leo Hickman (and more). A review of Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation From Stifling People and Strangling Profits by Robert Townsend. A review of Crazy Bosses by Stanley Bing.
A review of Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock by Andrew Beaujon. A review of The Pyjama Game: A Journey into Judo by Mark Law. A review of Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog by Ted Kerasote.
