Book Review Roundup

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  Joseph J. Ellis is out with a new book: Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence (Alfred A. Knopf). The New York Times reviews it here. (Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal may read another take on the book here.)

• Ellis's book, along with recent works by Richard Beeman and Nathaniel Philbrick, is also in the spotlight over at Slate. "Why do popular histories of the War of Independence ignore modern scholarship?" Eric Herschthal asks.

• From the Los Angeles Times: A review of Travis McDade, Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It (Oxford University Press).

• From History News Network: Luther Spoehr reviews, here, Erik Christiansen, Channeling the Past: Politicizing History in Postwar America (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013).

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