Book Reviews

A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

Justin Martin. Da Capo Press, 2018. 318 pages. $28.00.

Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky. Penguin, 2017. 790 pages. $35.00.

Henry David Thoreau: A Life

Laura Dassow Walls. University of Chicago Press, 2017. 615 pages. $35.00.

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

Mike Wallace. Oxford University Press, 2017. 1,182 pages. $45.00.

Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France After Napoleon

Christine Haynes. Harvard University Press, 2018. 404 pages. $39.95.

Deaccessioning and its Discontents: A Critical History

Martin Gammon. MIT Press, 2018. 448 pages. $44.95.

Corot: Women

Mary Morton with contributions by David Ogawa, Sébastien Allard, and Heather McPherson. Distributed by Yale University Press, 2018. 180 pages. $50.00.

Nicolas de Staël in Provence

Edited by Marie du Bouchet and Gustav de Staël. Distributed by Yale University Press, 2018. 216 pages. $35.00.

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser. Metropolitan Books, 2017. 626 pages. $35.00

Monet the Collector

Marianne Mathieu and Dominique Lobstein. Musée Marmottan Monet. Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017. 284 pages. $50.00.

Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

Megan Marshall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 366 pages. $30.00.

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Edwidge Danticat. Graywolf Press, 2017. 181 pages. $14.00.