Book Reviews

Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream

Mark Osteen. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 324 pages. $34.95.

An Ecology of Happiness

Eric Lambin. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. University of Chicago Press, 2012. 184 pages. $26.00.

Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for the Apocalypse

Jay Rubenstein. Basic Books, 2011. 424 pages. $29.00.

The Rise of Abraham Cahan

Seth Lipsky. Nextbook/Schocken, 2013. 224 pages. $26.00.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daniel Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Crown Publishers, 2012. 544 pages. $30.00.

Underwater Eden: Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

Gregory S. Stone and David Obura. University of Chicago Press 2013. 184 pages. $40.00.

Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing, and What We Can Do about It

Ian Goldin. Oxford University Press, 2013. 207 pages. $21.95.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain. Broadway Books, 2013. 368 pages. $17.95.

The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change

Philip Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George Denton; Photographs by Gary Comer. The MIT Press, 2013. 216 pages. $29.95.

On Compromise and Rotten Compromises

Avishai Margalit. Princeton University Press, 2013. 219 pages. $18.95.

Hopper Drawing

Edited by Carter E. Foster. Whitney Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2013. 256 pages. $60.00.

American Photographs

Walker Evans. Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition. The Museum of Modern Art, 2012. 208 pages. $35.00.