Book Review Roundup

• Over at History Today, you'll find a review of Anthony Pagden, The Enlightenment and Why it Still Matters (Oxford University Press, 2013).

• From History News Network: a review of Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman's FDR and the Jews (Belknap, 2013)

• Subscribers to the Nation magazine will surely want to read Michael O'Donnell's review of The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution, by Marcia Coyle.

• From the New York Times: a review of Robert Kuttner, Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013). 

• The NYT also covers two books on higher education: Is College Worth It? A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education (Thomas Nelson), by William J. Bennett and David Wilezol, and College (Un)bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students (New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Jeffrey J. Selingo.

• From the Chronicle of Higher Education: check out Carlin Romano's thoughtful essay on "civility and sex speech," in which he spotlights Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate (Encounter Books, 2012), by Greg Lukianoff.   

The Book Review Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.