Book Reviews

Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

George Hutchinson. Columbia University Press, 2018. 439 pages. $33.45.

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Michelle Dean. Grove Press, 2018. $26.00.

Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters

Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule. University of Chicago Press, 2018. 256 pages. $25.00.

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. Picador, 2018. 295 pages. $28.00.

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.