ON PAPER:
The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
By Nicholas A. Basbanes. Knopf. 448 pp. $35
THE MEMOIRS OF WALTER BAGEHOT
By Frank Prochaska. Yale Univ. Press.
207 pp. $38
COMING UP SHORT:
Working-class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty
By Jennifer M. Silva. Oxford Univ. Press. 192 pp. $29.95
MATHEW BRADY:
Portraits of a Nation
By Robert Wilson. Bloomsbury. 288 pp. $28
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
By David Finkel. Sarah Crichton Books. 256 pp. $26
BLESSED:
A History of the American Prosperity Gospel.
By Kate Bowler. Oxford Univ. Press. 337 pp. $34.95
A CALL TO ARMS:
Mobilizing America for World War II.
By Maury Klein. Bloomsbury Press. 897 pp. $40
THE END OF NIGHT:
Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light.
By Paul Bogard. Little, Brown. 325 pp. $27
WILD ONES
A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
By Jon Mooallem. Penguin Press. 339 pp. $27.95
HOTHOUSE:
The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
By Boris Kachka. Simon & Schuster. 448 pp. $28