Book Reviews

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Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography

Anne W. Armstrong. Linda Behrend, editor. University of Tennessee Press, 2022; illustrated. $34.95

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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Morgan. Louisiana State University Press, 2023. 382 pages; 33 Illustrations. $39.95.

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The Song of Simon de Montfort: England’s First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry

Sophie Thérèse Ambler. Oxford University Press, 2019. 428 pages. $29.95.

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Growing Up in The Ville in St. Louis, Missouri

Pauline Estelle Merry. Great Tales Well Told Publishing, 2022. 192 pages. $24.95.

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The Caretaker: A Novel

Ron Rash. Doubleday, 2023. 252 pages. $28.00.

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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

Jennifer Raff. Twelve Books, 2022. 360 pages. $30.00.

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Momma’s Lost Piano

David Madden. University of Tennessee Press, 2023. 232 pages. $24.95.

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Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1259-1272

David Carpenter. Yale University Press, 2023. 728 pages. $40.00.

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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War

Deborah Cohen. Random House, 2022. 592 pages. $30.00.

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The Secret Life of Literature

Lisa Zunshine. MIT Press, 2022. 318 pages. $40.00.

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles. Random House, 2021. 385 pages. $28.00.

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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Bold Type Books, 2021. 318 pages. $28.00.