Book Reviews

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk. Yale University Press, 2023. 616 pages. $35.00.

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The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls. Routledge, 2024. $45.59 (paperback).

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Mark Twain

Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2025. 1174 pages. $45.00.

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Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2024. 344 pages. $29.00.

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The Invention of Prehistory:  Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Stefanos Geroulanos. Liveright, 2024. 512 pages. $21.68.

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From One Cell: A Journey into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine

Ben Stanger. W.W. Norton, 2023. 368 pages. $30.00.

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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath. Vintage, 2025. 304 pages. $16.51.

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Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks

Caitlin Rivers. Viking, 2024. 304 pages. $17.96.

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Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis

Sara Marcus. Harvard University Press, 2023. 256 pages. $39.95.

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Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Emily Monosson. W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. 272 pages. $28.94.

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The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World

Mark Edmundson. Yale University Press, 2023. 164 Pages. $26.00.

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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky. Penguin Press, 2023. 528 pages. $35.00.