OBSESSIVE GENIUS:
The Inner World of Marie Curie.
By Barbara Goldsmith. Norton. 320 pp. $23.95
NATURAL LIFE:
Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism.
By David M. Robinson. Cornell Univ. Press. 234 pp. $24.95
THE HEART OF THE WORLD: A Journey to the Last Secret Place. By Ian Baker. Penguin. 511 pp. $27.95
As reviewer Charlotte Allen notes, "Anyone seriously interested in [Flannery O'Connor's] well-deserved place in America’s literary pantheon should take a look" at two new books.
HAROLD LASKI AND AMERICAN LIBERALISM. By Gary Dean Best. Transaction. 204 pp. $34.95
THIS GREAT BATTLEFIELD
OF SHILOH:
History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War
National Military Park.
By Timothy B. Smith. Univ. of Tennessee Press. 178 pp. $28.95
THE LAST OF THE CELTS.
By Marcus Tanner. Yale Univ. Press. 398 pp. $30
ISLAM IN URBAN AMERICA:
Sunni Muslims in Chicago.
By Garbi Schmidt. Temple Univ. Press. 242 pp. $64.50 (hardcover), $22.95 (paper)
BORN AGAIN BODIES:
Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity.
By R. Marie Griffith. Univ. of California Press. 323 pp. $55 (hardcover), $21.95 (paper)
David J. Garrow reviews an "impressively intelligent book" that takes a harsh look at recent scandals of scholarship.