Book Reviews

A Spy Among Friends
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal		 Ben Macintyre
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times H. W. Brands
Bald Eagle, The
TThe Improbable History of America’s Bird		 Jack E. Davis
Ballot Battles
The History of Disputed Elections in the United States		 Edward B. Foley
Baseball 100, The Joe Posnanski
Berlin Project, The Gregory Benford
Book of the Dead, The (anthology) Jared Shurin (ed)
Caesar’s Last Breath
Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us		 Sam Kean
Catastrophe: 1914
Europe Goes to War		 Max Hastings
Checkmate in Berlin
The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World		 Giles Minton
Checkpoint Charlie
The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth		 Iain MacGregor
Columbus: The Four Voyages Laurence Bergreen
Conquistadores
A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest		 Fernando Cervantes
Danubia
A Personal History of Habsburg Europe		 Simon Winder
Dark Matter Blake Crouch
Decoding the Heavens
A 2000-Year Old Computer – And the Century Long Search to Discover its Secrets		 Jo Marchant
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow
Drunk
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization		 Edward Slingerland
Eighty Days
Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History Making Race Around the World		 Matthew Goodman
Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré s Maps Peter Galison
Ends of the World, The
Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions		 Peter Brannen
Famous Works of Art – And How They Got That Way John B. Nici
Field of Blood, The
Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War		 Joanne B. Freeman
Finder Suzanne Palmer
Firebreak Nicole Kornher-Stace
Fleet of Worlds (Series) Larry Niven and Edward Lerner
Floodpath
The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles		 Jon Wilkman
Game Must Go On, The
Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray, and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII		 John Klima
God’s Shadow
Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World		 Alan Mikhail
Hammer and Tickle
A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes		 Ben Lewis
Head On
A Novel of the Near Future		 John Scalzi
Heaven’s Ditch
God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal		 Jack Kelly
Heirs of the Founders
The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants		 H.W. Brands
Here is Where
Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History		 Andrew Carroll
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Edward Gibbon
How to Invent Everything
A Field Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler		 Ryan North
Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution Thomas P. Slaughter
Infected Scott Sigler
Inseparable
The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous With American History		 Yunte Huang
Iran-Contra
Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power		 Malcolm Byrne
Last Unicorn, The
A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures		 William DeBuys
Laundry Files, The (series) Charles Stross
Man who Ended War, The Hollis Godfrey
Mars Girl Jeff Garrity
Night Land, The William Hope Hodgson
Operation Nemesis
The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide		 Eric Bogosian
Oscar Charleston:
The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player		 Jeremy Beer
Otherlands:
A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds		 Thomas Halliday
Paradox Bound Peter Clines
Ready Player One Ernest Cline
Reboots: Undead Can Dance Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories From ‘The Sun’ Edward Page Mitchell
Strange Case of Dr. Doyle, The
A Journey into Madness and Mayhem		 Daniel Friedman, MD and Eugene Friedman, MD
Taking of K-129, The
How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History		 Josh Dean
Tango War, The
The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin American During World War II		 Mary Jo McConohay
Then Everything Changed
Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan		 Jeff Greenfield
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense
The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy		 Dan Abrams and David Fisher
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension Matt Parker
Through the Perilous Fight
Six Weeks that Saved the Nation		 Steve Vogel
Time Salvager Wesley Chu
Time Travel James Gleick
Tomorrow-Land
The 1964-65 World’s Fair and the Transformation of America		 Joseph Tirella
Weird, The (anthology) Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (ed.)
World Beneath Their Feet, The
Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas		 Scott Ellsworth
World War I: The African Front
An Imperial War on the African Continent		 Edward Paice
World War II (series) Time Life Books