Piety and Plenty: The Buying and Selling of Christmas
Editor’s Note: Especially for the holidays, we publish here Jackson Lears’s exceptional history of Christmas. Enjoy and happy holidays. READ MORE >>
The Mormon Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Mormonizing of America: How The Mormon Religion Became a Dominant Force in Politics, Entertainment, and Pop CultureBy Stephen Mansfield (Worthy Publishing, 264 pp., $22.99) People of Paradox: A History of Mormon CultureBy Terryl L. Givens (Oxford University Press, 414 pp., $29.99) Falling in Love with Joseph Smith: My Search for the Real Prophet By Jane Barnes (Tarcher, 294 pp., $25.95) READ MORE >>
A Boy’s Own Story
Colonel Roosevelt By Edmund Morris (Random House, 766 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>
The Gospel According to Luce
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century By Alan Brinkley (Knopf, 531 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>
The Usefulness of Cranks
Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery By Steve Nicholls (University of Chicago Press, 524 pp., $30) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Edited by Bill McKibben (Library of America, 1,047 pp., $40) Defending The Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, And The Legacy Of Madison Grant By Jonathan Peter Spiro (University of Vermont Press, 462 pp., $39.95) READ MORE >>
America the Exceptional
The Creation of the Media: The Political Origins of Modern Communications By Paul Starr (Basic Books, 484 pp., $27.50) I. READ MORE >>
Fighting Words
The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. From the Civil War Through World War II by James Dawes (Harvard University Press, 300 pp., $39.95) READ MORE >>
