In From the Closet to the Altar, [Klarman] tells the remarkable story of the legal, political, and cultural struggle over marriage equality. But even as he chronicles the almost unheard-of progress on this issue in the past two decades, Klarman argues that each judicial advance has been met with a forceful political reaction, at substantial cost to gay rights and to liberal causes more generally.
In the New York Times, you'll find a review of A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentricin in an Age of Change, by John Glassie (Riverhead Books, 2012). The "eccentricin" in question is "one of history’s more bizarre and largely forgotten thinkers, the 17th-century Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher."
And just for fun -- check out the NYT's slideshow of "favorite book cover designs of 2012."
A book making the rounds of the book pages this week is The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? (Viking, 2012), by Jared Diamond. The Los Angeles Times reviews it here. The Guardian covers it here. It is also featured in the Times Higher Education magazine this week, here, along with Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives (Princeton University Press, 2013), by Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood, here.
From NPR: Listen to or read coverage of Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis (Metropolitan Books, 2012), by Mark Binelli.
