SEARCHING FOR WHITOPIA:
An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.
By Rich Benjamin.
Hyperion. 354 pp. $24.99
1688:
The First Modern Revolution.
By Steve Pincus.
Yale Univ. Press. 647 pp. $40
THE PERMISSIVE SOCIETY:
America, 1941–1965.
By Alan Petigny.
Cambridge Univ. Press. 292 pp. $24.99
ABIGAIL ADAMS.
By Woody Holton.
Free Press. 483 pp. $30
COWBOYS FULL:
The Story of Poker.
By James McManus.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 516 pp. $30
MUSLIMS IN AMERICA:
A Short History.
By Edward E. Curtis IV.
Oxford Univ. Press. 144 pp. $12.95
MEMOIR:
A History.
By Ben Yagoda.
Riverhead. 291 pp. $25.95
THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION:
America in 2050.
By Joel Kotkin.
Penguin. 320 pp. $25.95
THE FOURTH PART OF THE WORLD:
The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name.
By Toby Lester.
Free Press. 462 pp. $30
YOURS EVER:
People and Their Letters.
By Thomas Mallon.
Pantheon. 352 pp. $26.95