Book Reviews

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

Dennis C. Rasmussen. Princeton University Press, 2017. $29.95.

Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

Richard J. Meagher. Lexington Books, 2018. 168 pages. $90.00.

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

Keisha N. Blain. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 264 pages. $34.95.

Burlesques on the Secret Book of John

Egon H.E. Lass. FutureCycle Press, 2018. 102 pages. $15.95.

In the Shadow of King Saul

Jerome Charyn. Bellevue Literary Press, 2018. 271 pages. $16.99.

Lake on Fire

Rosellen Brown. Sarabande Books, 2018. 349 pages. $17.95.

iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood

Jean M. Twenge. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 333 pages. $18.00.

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Penguin Random House, 2018. 327 pages. $28.00.

American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring

William Giraldi, W.W. Norton, 2018. 462 Pages. $30.00.

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.