From the December 2018 Issue The Joys of Enlightenment Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison By David Wootton LR
From the June 2018 Issue Thetford’s Finest Thomas Paine: Britain, America, & France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution By J C D Clark LR
From the August 2017 Issue Stargazing The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850 By Antoine Lilti (Translated by Lynn Jeffress)
From the December 2015 Issue Esprit de Corpse The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains By Thomas W Laqueur LR
From the October 2014 Issue Faith of the Founders Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic By Matthew Stewart LR
From the April 2014 Issue Fighting Philosophers Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre By Jonathan Israel LR
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