The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
The Last Plantagenet
Garrett Robinson reviews Nicola Tallis’s Uncrowned Queen on Margaret Beaufort.
Holding a Wolf by the Ears
Jason Ross reviews Jeff Broadwater’s Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution.
A Refreshed and Refreshing Federalist
Michael Federici welcomes Reflection and Choice, the new Federalist collection from Gregg and Coleman.
Naive Virtue?
Casey Chalk reviews Thomas Ricks’s First Principles.
A Life for the Longfellow Renaissance
William F. Meehan III welcomes Nicholas Basbanes’s new Longfellow biography.
More than an Education
Clayton Trutor reviews David Brown’s new biography of Henry Adams.
Hemingway Finds His Voice
Frank Freeman reviews the new Library of America edition of the early Hemingway.
Woodward, Reconstruction, and Their Legacy
Stephen B. Presser reviews The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward.
Finding a Different Self
Lance Kinzer reviews Carl Trueman’s Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.