march11b2.indd C&RL News March 2011 184 Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, by Holly Tucker (304 pages, March 2011), reopens the case of Jean-Baptiste Denis, physician to King Louis XIV of France, who was responsible for the first two suc- cessful transfusions of animal blood (in small quantities) into human beings. His third attempt on the 34-year-old mentally imbalanced Antoine Mauroy, who had once been valet to the Marquise de Sévigné, ended fatally and Denis was brought to trial in Paris on April 17, 1668. Luckily for Denis, it turned out that Mauroy’s wife Perrine had actually poisoned him with arsenic supplied by some “enemies of the experiment.” But the judge ruled all further blood transfusions illegal unless ap- proved by the Parisian Faculty of Medicine (an unlikely event) and effectively con- demned the procedure for the next 150 years, as English and German scientists followed suit. Tucker raises an interesting question: What would have happened if transfusion ex- periments had been allowed in a society that knew nothing about blood types, antisepsis, and immunology? In the course of examining the Denis case, she also covers the state of 17th-century medicine and experimentation, the rivalry between the French Academy of Sciences and the English Royal Society, and debates over transfusion as transmutation: As Samuel Pepys mused, what would happen if the “blood of a Quaker [were] let into an Archbishop?” A well-documented and read- able account. $25.95. W. W. Norton. 978-0- 393-07055-2. George M. Eberhart is senior editor of American Libraries, e-mail: geberhart@ala.org N e w P u b l i c a t i o n sGeorge M. Eberhart Constructing the Ancient World: Architec- tural Techniques of the Greeks and Romans, by Carmelo G. Malacrino (216 pages, August 2010), is an easy-to-understand overview of the materials and methods used to build the foundations, walls, arches, and columns of the great edifices of the classical world. The book begins with the types of stone and mar- ble the Greeks and Romans used and where and how they were quarried, then explains the use of the other essential building blocks of clay, terracotta, lime, mortar, and plas- ter. After examining the differing construc- tion technologies in the Greek and Roman worlds, Malacrino goes on to a closer look at materials transport, work-site techniques, ancient hydraulic systems, heating systems and baths, roads and bridges, and tunnels. Accompanied by many well-chosen illustra- tions and helpful charts. $50.00. Getty Publi- cations. 978-1-60606-016-2. Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Won- derland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida, by Lu Vickers (358 pages, November 2010), celebrates the 73-year history of this “epicen- ter of modern Florida tourism,” which was set up by e n t r e - preneurs D i c k and Julie Pope in 1936 on d r a i n e d swampland near Winter Gardens. The Cy- press Gardens attraction, promoted in news- reels and Hollywood movies, became world- renowned for its botanical gardens filled with exotic plants, water-skiing extravaganzas, Aqua Maid ballerinas, hoop-skirted South- ern Belles, flower queens, and swimmer and movie star Esther Williams’s Florida-shaped pool. Vickers offers hundreds of anecdotes gleaned from the Pope family and the theme park’s later owners, as well as abundant pho- March 2011 185 C&RL News tos, postcards, and promotional materials from the enormous Cypress Gardens Archive. After a slow decline in the 1980s punctuated by several attempts to revive its former glory, the park closed in 2009, though there are plans to reopen it in late 2011 as Legoland Florida. $34.95. University Press of Florida. 978-0-8130-3499-7. The Ethical Archivist, by Elena S. Danielson (437 pages, August 2010), explores the wide range of ethical dilemmas that arise in the course of archival work. Danielson, archi- vist emerita at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, warns that ethical codes cannot accommo- date every situation and offers advice on gen- eral principles that archivists should follow to “establish a standard of integrity that inspires confidence in the documentary record.” One chapter is a case study on the “cigarette pa- pers,” a treasure trove of studies on the ad- dictive nature of nicotine from the former tobacco company Brown & Williamson that were leaked to Professor Stanton A. Glantz at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), School of Medicine, who then do- nated them to the UCSF library’s Tobacco Control Archives for safekeeping. The case vividly illustrates principles of open access, the acquisition of stolen materials, question- able provenance, third-party privacy, and the right of citizens to be informed on matters of public health. An appendix offers ten codes of ethics relating to archives and cultural property. $49.00. Society of American Archi- vists. 978-1-931666-34-2. The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia, by Edward Steers Jr. (594 pages, May 2010), is an essential, one-stop reference book on the people, places, events, and conspira- cies connected to the assassination of Abra- ham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Concise and packed with contemporaneous photo- graphs, this encyclopedia identifies many of the minor characters in the drama (such as “Coughdrop Joe” Ratto, who claimed to have held John Wilkes Booth’s horse that fatal night) and demolishes most conspir- acy theories (particularly the involvement Relais D2D ● Discovery to Delivery A state of the art Consortial Resource Sharing solution from Relais International. Please visit us at booth number 939 at the ACRL Conference in Philadelphia. info@relais-intl.com (888) 294-5244 ext. 229 C&RL News March 2011 186 of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and the myth that someone other than Booth was killed at the Garrett Farm) while leaving the door slightly open for active support to Booth by the Confederate secret service. The book contains a foreword by Manhunt author James L. Swanson and an assassi- nation chronology from 1860 through 1865. $19.99. HarperPerennial. 978-0-06-178775-1. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Pied- mont, by Georgann Eubanks (455 pages, October 2010), a sequel to the author’s Lit- erary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains (2009), offers a tourist’s perspective on the rich literary history of the state’s central pla- teau. Divided into 18 tours, Eubanks guides you through the region’s towns, author birth- places, literary settings, colleges, libraries, museums, cemeteries, churches, and memo- rials. Eubanks provides in-depth commen- tary on the significance of each site to North Carolina authors, poets, and playwrights, as well as plentiful excerpts that link the litera- ture to the landscape. A third volume, pre- sumably focusing on North Carolina’s coastal plain, is in the works. $37.50. University of North Carolina. 978-0-8078-5979-7. Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynch- ing, and Reckoning in the New South, by Claude A. Clegg III (230 pages, October 2010), unearths the nearly forgotten lynch- ing of three African Americans in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1906 that nonetheless made national headlines at the time. Ac- cused of the ax murders of a white family for whom they had worked, the three were taken from the jailhouse by a violent white mob and hung in the same spot where two black youngsters accused of rape and mur- der had been lynched four years earlier. The event was so blatant that local officials were shamed into attempting to prosecute some of the white mob leaders, resulting in one con- viction for first-degree murder. Clegg takes an in-depth look at the tradition of mob violence and the politics of racial hatred in the New South. $80.00. University of Illinois. 978-0- 252-03588-3. Project MUSE now offers you more rich archival content online. 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