The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

The President’s Hidden Hand
Michael J. Ard reviews Annie Jacobsen’s Surprise, Kill, Vanish.

An Ambitious Forgotten President
Brian Cervantez reviews President Without a Party, Christopher Leahy’s new biography of John Tyler.

Beha’s Capacity for God: Sophie Wilder Revisited
Joshua Hren revisits Christopher Beha’s first novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder.

A Plutarchian Life of Brown and Lincoln
Carl Rollyson reviews H. W. Brands’s The Zealot and the Emancipator.

The Clandestine Poet
Alfred Nicol reviews In Code, new poetry by Maryann Corbett.

Delaware’s Civilian Conservation Corps and the Advent of an Artist
In this excerpt from his new book, William F. Meehan III tells the story of painter Jack Lewis and the Depression-era CCC in Delaware.

Burke’s Defense of Natural Rights and the Limits of Political Power
Bruce P. Frohnen looks at Burke’s real support for natural rights.

The Civil Tongue
Dan Rattelle reviews Wonder and Wrath by A. M. Juster.

Why, and How, to Live
Jeffrey Folks reviews Leon Kass’s Leading a Worthy Life.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.