Book Reviews

Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother

Eve LaPlante. Free Press, 2012. 368 pages. $26.00.

Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

Tim Jeal. Yale University Press, 2012. 510 pages. $32.50.

The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination

Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, Emma Shackleton. Forward by Anthony Gormley. University of Chicago Press, 2011. 256 pages. $50.00.

Selected Poems

Robert Pinsky. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 209 pages. $16.00.

American Diplomacy

George F. Kennan. Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition With a New Introduction by John J. Mearsheimer. University of Chicago Press, 2012. 192 pages. $17.00.

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Little, Brown and Company, 2011. 296 pages. $27.99.

The Sea Is My Brother

Jack Kerouac. Da Capo Press, 2012. 216 pages. $23.00.

Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing

Peter Elbow. Oxford University Press, 2012. 456 pages. $19.95.

Debates in the Digital Humanities

Matthew K. Gold, editor. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 532 pages. $34.95

Alice James, A Biography

Jean Strouse. Preface by Colm Toibin. New York Review Books, 2011. 372 pp. $17.95.

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Richard White. W.W. Norton &Company, 2012. 720 pages. $35.00.

Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L.J. M. Daguerre

Stephen C. Pinson University of Chicago Press, 2012. 313 pages. $65.00.