TOM CARSON: Richard Zacks’s Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour and Mark Zwonitzer’s The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics
JUSTIN ROOD: Lloyd C. Gardner’s The War on Leakers: National Security and American Democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden
MICHAEL KAZIN: Jefferson Cowie’s The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics and Randall B. Woods’s Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism
