New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.
James J. Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth. New York: Penguin, 2005
Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America. New York: Viking, 2005.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, The American Revolution, 14 volumes, Longmans, Green, 1880-1914, volumes 1 and 2 republished as The Early History of Charles James Fox, 1 volume, Harper, 1880, volumes 5-10 republished as The American Revolution, 4 volumes, Longmans, Green, 1899-1912, volumes 13-14 republished as George the Third and Charles Fox, the Concluding Part of the American Revolution, 2 volumes, Longmans, Green, 1912, 1914.
Henry Lee. Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1812. Revised version, Washington: P. Force, 1827; New edition, with a life of the author by Robert E. Lee, New York: University Publishing Company, 1869.
Richard Brookhiser. John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court. Basic Books, 324pp., $30 cloth
Alexander Bevilacqua, The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 360pp., $22 paper.
Reihan Salam, Melting Pot or Civil War? A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case against Open Borders. Sentinel, 224pp., $27 cloth
Hanna Holborn Gray, An Academic Life: A Memoir. Princeton University Press, 352pp., $30 cloth
Karen Tongson, Why Karen Carpenter Matters. University of Texas Press. 152pp., $17 paper.
Fred Goodman, Why Lhasa de Sela Matters. University of Texas Press. 200pp., $17 paper.
John J. Curley, A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and the Art of the Cold War. Yale University Press, 296p., 32 color and 136 b/w ills., $65 cloth.