Book Reviews

The Burdens of Wealth: Paul Getty and His Museum

Burton B. Fredericksen. Archway Publishing, 2015. 460 pages. $28.99.

The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science at Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet 1766-1820

Edited by Ethan W. Lasser. Yale University Press, 2017. 312 pages. $55.00.

Warner Bros.: The Making of an American Movie Studio

David Thomson. Yale University Press, 2017. 220 pages. $25.00.

Tell Them I Said No

Martin Herbert. Sternberg Press, 2017. 127 pages. $39.00.

Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America

Margaret Morganroth Gullette. University of Chicago Press, 2011. 304 pages. $29.00.

The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Laura Thompson. St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 385 pages. $29.99.

The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey

Perin E. Gurel. Columbia University Press, 2017. 273 pages. $60.00.

The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign

Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 433 pages. $28.00.

What Love Is: And What It Could Be

Carrie Jenkins. Basic Books, 2017. 213 pages. $26.99.

The Crucible of Islam

G.W. Bowersock. Harvard University Press, 2017. 240 pages. $25.00.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson. W.W. Norton, 2017. 222 pages. $18.95.

The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

Timothy Hyman. Thames & Hudson, 2016. 256 pages. $50.00.