Book Reviews

Treason on Trial: The United States v. Jefferson Davis

Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez. LSU Press, 2019. 356 pages. $55.00.

In the Months of My Son’s Recovery: Poems

Kate Daniels. Louisiana State Press, 2019. 105 pages. $19.91.

Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch. Viking, 2018. 728 pages. $40.00.

The World Begins with Yes: Poems

Erica Jong. Red Hen Press, 2019. 403 pages. $16.95.

The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture

Allison M. Johnson. Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 208 pages. $45.00.

Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises

Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Steve Chapple. Yale University Press, 2018. 296 pages. $26.00.

Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight. Simon and Schuster, 2018. 888 pages. $37.50.

Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason

Princeton University Press, 2019. 344 pages. $29.95.

Veiled Presence: Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian

Paul Hills. Yale University Press, 2018. 224 pages. $55.00.

Carleton Watkins: Making the West American

Tyler Green. University of California Press, 2018. 574 pages. $34.95.

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

Douglas E. Cowan. University of California Press, 2019. 240 pages. $85.00.

Laika’s Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog

Kurt Caswell. Trinity University Press, 2018. 242 pages. $24.95.