Book Reviews

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

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