Book Reviews

Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

T.J. Stiles. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 582 pages. $30.00.

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, 2015. 262 pages. $30.00.

The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography

Scott Donaldson. Penn State University Press, 2015. 284 pages. $39.95.

The Face of the Buddha

William Empson. Edited by Rupert Arrowsmith. Oxford University Press, 2016. 208 pages. $49.95.

New York Studio Conversations: Seventeen Women Talk about Art

Edited by Stephanie Buhmann. The Green Box Kunst Editionen, Berlin, 2016. 215 pages. $22.50.

Is God Happy?: Selected Essays

Leszek Kolakowski. Basic Books, 2013. 327 pages. $28.99.

National Geographic’s Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary

Susan Tyler Hitchcock, foreword by Stephen Alvarez. National Geographic, 2014. 400 pages. $40.00.

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

Victoria Tennant. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 256 pages. $55.00.

Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination

Suzanne Keen. Ohio State University Press, 2014. 265 pages. $52.01.

The Habsburg Empire: A New History

Pieter M. Judson. Harvard University Press, 2016. 567 pages. $35.00.

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman. Princeton University Press, 2015. 250 pages. $18.95.

The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

William E. Leuchtenburg. Oxford University Press, 2015. 904 pages. $39.95.