Book Reviews

Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union

Louis P. Masur. Belnap Press of Harvard University, 2012. 358 pages, illustrated. $29.95.

Is God Happy? Selected Essays

Leszek Kolakowski. Basic Books, 2013. 327 pages. $28.99.

Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times

Andrew Piper. University of Chicago Press, 2012. 192 pages. $22.50.

Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands

Gonda Van Steen. Oxford University Press, 2011. 368 pages. $125.00.

Hidden Gardens of Paris

Susan Cahill. Photographs by Marion Ranoux. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012. 240 pages. $19.99.

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

John Sutherland. Yale University Press, 2012. 818 pages. $39.95.

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

W. Jeffrey Bolster. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 378 pages. $29.95.

FDR and the Jews

Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman. Harvard University Press, 2013. 464 pages. $29.95.

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen

Stephen R. Bown. Da Capo Press, 2012. 356 pages. $27.50.

Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Gish Jen. Harvard University Press, 2013. 224 pages. $18.95.

How Animals Grieve

Barbara J. King. University of Chicago Press, 2013. 193 pages. $25.00.

The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

Halik Kochanski. Harvard University Press, 2012. 734 pages. $35.00.