Book Reviews

Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South

Pam Kelley. New Press, 2018. 304 pages. $26.99.

No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Daniel Kennefick. Princeton University Press, 2019. 403 pages. $29.95.

The Year of Blue Water

By Indira Ganesan  The foreword to The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi is written by Carl Phillips, the poet and judge of this year’s Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. It is a celebratory and sensitive assessment of this quietly assertive, nuanced book. I suggest you skip it to savor after reading Yanyi’s book. […]

Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin

Joseph Kelly. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. 512 pages. $32.00.

The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé, the Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love

Bryan Wagner. LSU Press, 2019. 253 pages. $39.95.

An Einstein Encyclopedia

Alice Calaprice, Daniel Kennefick, and Robert Schulmann, eds. Princeton University Press, 2015. 347 pages. $39.95.

Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise and Fall of the First American Left

Mark Lause. Pluto Press, 2018. 266 pages. $26.00 paperback.

Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical

Jacqueline Jones. Basic Books, 2017. 447 pages. $32.00.

De Gaulle

Julian Jackson. Harvard University Press, 2018. 877 pages. $39.95.

Age of Fear: Othering and American Identity During World War I

Zachary Smith. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 233 pages. $59.95.

The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness

Dale Peterson. University of California Press, 2018. 222 pages. $29.95.

The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States

Naazneen H. Barma. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 223 pages. $105.00.