David S. Reynolds is a distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. His most recent book is Lincoln’s Selected Writings (Norton 2015). His other books include Walt Whitman’s America (winner of the Bancroft Prize and Ambassador Book Award), Beneath the American Renaissance (winner of the Christian Gauss Award), John Brown, Abolitionist (winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award), Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America, and Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson.
Book Reviews
May/June 2017
The Hidden History of Slavery
Homegoing by Yaa Cyasi. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 305 pp. $26.95. The Slaves Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha. New Haven: Yale UP, 2016. 768 pp. […]
Book Reviews
July/Aug 2016
Walt Whitman and the Bohemians
Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians, by Justin Martin. Boston: De Capo, 2014. 339 pp. $29.24 hardcover. Whitman among the Bohemians, edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley. […]
Book Reviews
Fall 2014
Riffing on America
The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On. By John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 392 pp. $29.95, hardcover. […]