Book Reviews

Blood From the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic

Adam Jortner. University of Virginia Press, 2017. 247 pages. $45.00.

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

Anne C. Bailey. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 197 pages. $75.99.

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

Bettany Hughes. Da Capo Press, 2017. 800 pages. $40.00.

Beowulf

Translated by Stephen Mitchell. Yale University Press, 2017. 264 pages. $26.00.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Mary Norris. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. 240 pages. $24.99.

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

Lindsay Tuggle. University of Iowa Press, 2017. 276 pages. $63.90.

American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Caroline Winterer. Yale University Press, 2016. 355 pages. $35.00.

Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno

Raymond Geuss. Harvard University Press, 2017. 334 pages. $29.95.

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

David Armitage. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 349 pages. $27.95.

Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres

Peter Pesic. MIT Press, 2017. 330 pages. $38.00.

David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale

Elena Filipovic. An Afterall Book. Distributed by MIT Press, 2017. 157 pages. $19.95.

My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach us to Live, Love, and Die

Kevin Toolis. Da Capo Press, 2018. 275 pages.