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Alongside the details of how he’s learned to compensate for his condition by reading lips and other methods, Hay sharply articulates the ways in which going deaf plays tricks on the mind: “The thing about gradual hearing loss is that you forget when you used to hear something that you no longer can,” he writes at one point. Pegasus Books, 29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-639-36475-6 Historian Malcolm (The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold) explores how the American Revolution was experienced as a civil war by those who lived through it in this intimate account of the “painful divisions” that pitted Patriot against Loyalist within American families. Basic Books, 32.50 (464p) ISBN 978-1-541-62020-9 Historian Reynolds (Island Stories) doesn’t quite find a fresh angle on the much-studied British prime minister in this energetic if familiar study of “how Churchill learned from others as he rose to national and global prominence.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 32 (464p) ISBN 978-0-374-17642-6 In this perceptive biography, Shatz (Writers and Missionaries), the U.S. editor of the London Review of Books, chronicles the life of psychiatrist and political theorist Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), covering his childhood in French colonial Martinique, service in the Free French Forces during WWII, disillusionment with the “myth of French color blindness” while studying medicine in Lyon, and immersion in the 1950s Algerian independence movement.