Book Reviews

A Trust Betrayed: The Untold Story of Camp Lejeune and the Poisoning of Generations of Marines and their Families

Mike Magner. Da Capo Press, 2014. 299 pages. $27.50.

Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

Malcolm McCullough. MIT Press, 2013. 347 pages. $27.95.

Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education

Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury, 2013. 222 pages. $24.00.

The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex

John A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2012. 278 pages. $26.00.

Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technolog

Alexis Madrigal. Da Capo Press, 2011. 400 pages. $27.50.

Hollywood’s Last Golden Age

Jonathan Kirshner. Cornell University Press, 2012. 268 pages. $22.95.

Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Grady Bogue. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 163 pages. $34.95.

That Which Is Not Drawn

William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris. Seagull Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2013. 192 pages. $35.00.

A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture, and Ecology

Peter Coates. Reaktion, London, 2013. 350 pages. $40.00.

The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel

Gary Saul Morson. Stanford University Press, 2012. 273 pages. $80.00.

A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s “Germania” From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

Christopher B. Krebs. W.W. Norton, 2011. 304 pages. $16.95 [paper]

Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures

Claudia L. Johnson. University of Chicago Press, 2012. 224 pages. $35.00.