Reviews

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A Fair Fight

Joel Tannenbaum reviews How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev (Hachette, 2024)

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Chess: A Microcosm of the AI Revolution

Brody Eldridge reviews The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Peter Doggers (Puzzlewright Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 4/15/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/15/25

The Present of the Past

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray (Belknap Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 4/10/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/10/25

To Spur a Virtuous Cycle

Sarah Selden reviews Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (Crash Course Books, 2025)

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America’s Original Culture War

Matthew Sparacio reviews The Memory of ‘76: The Revolution in American Memory by Michael D. Hattem (Yale University Press, 2024)

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Read one for the Gipper?

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Ancient Eight: College Football’s Ivy League and the Game They Play Today by John Feinstein (Hachette, 2024)

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One toe over the line

Elizabeth Stice reviews Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders by Lewis Baston (Hodder, 2025)

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Starving Dreamlessly or Sensemaking on the Western Front?

Elizabeth Stice reviews Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front by Alex Mayhew (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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A Promise Kept

Dana Dickson reviews An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

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The many men, so beautiful!/ And they all dead did lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/Lived on; and so did I.

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)

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Goodbye to all that?

William M Knoblauch reviews The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Elizabeth Stice 12/26/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/26/24

English Common Law and British Imperial Intention

Elizabeth Stice reviews An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy by Christian R. Burset (Yale University Press, 2023)

Elizabeth Stice 12/10/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/10/24

This scepter’d isle… England that was wont to conquer others

Elizabeth Stice reviews Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire by Charlotte Lydia Riley (Harvard University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 12/3/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/3/24

Indigenous Languages, History, and Accepting People for Who They Are: The Case of Squanto

Matthew Sparacio reviews Squanto: A Native Odyssey by Andrew Lipman (Yale University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 11/19/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/19/24

The Best of All Possible Biographies?

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days by Michael Kempe (W.W. Norton & Co., 2024)

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The Worst Journey in the World: Now Illustrated

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel. Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down Graphic Novel adapted by Sarah Airress adapted from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Letter Better Publishing, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 10/31/24 Elizabeth Stice 10/31/24

Coming Back to You: Mark Kinzer’s Jewish Christian Scriptures

Michael Jimenez reviews Stones the Builders Rejected: The Jewish Jesus, His Jewish Disciples, and the Culmination of History by Mark S. Kinzer (Cascade, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 10/10/24 Elizabeth Stice 10/10/24

The Right Temperament: Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall by Josiah Bunting III (Knopf, 2024) and Becoming Eisenhower: How He Rose From Obscurity to Supreme Allied Commander by Michael Lee Lanning (Stackpole Books, 2024)