Book Reviews

• • Kenneth Lunn

  Theatres of Memory. Vol. 2: Island Stories: Unravelling Britain. By Raphael Samuel, ed. by Alison Light, Sally Alexander, and Gareth Stedman Jones. (New York: Verso, 1998. xxii, 391 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-85984-965-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1734-1735 doi:10.2307/2567589
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• • Steven Mintz

  Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. By Ira Berlin. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1998. xii, 497 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-81092-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1735-1737 doi:10.2307/2567590
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• • Hendrik Hartog

  Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination. By Karen Halttunen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 322 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-58855-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1737-1738 doi:10.2307/2567591
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• • Michael A. Morrison

  The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. By Michael F. Holt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xx, 1,248 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-505544-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1738-1740 doi:10.2307/2567592
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• • J. Matthew Gallman

  Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand. Ed. by James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper Jr., Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861–1865. By William Blair, Lincolns Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation. and The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West.

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1740-1743 doi:10.2307/2567593
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• • Tomas Almaguer

  The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. By Neil Foley. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi, 326 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-520-20723-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-20724-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1743-1745 doi:10.2307/2567594
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• • Stephen J. Whitfield

  Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. By Ellen Schrecker. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. xviii, 573 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-316-77470-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1745-1746 doi:10.2307/2567595
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• • Anne Ruggles Gere

  Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xiv, 248 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06477-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1746-1747 doi:10.2307/2567596
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• • Ferdinando Fasce

  Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America. Ed. by Wendy E Katkin, Ned Landsman, and Andrea Tyree. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 281 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02385-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06685-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1747-1748 doi:10.2307/2567597
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• • Robert L. Gold

  The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and “Discovery” in the Southeast. Ed. by Patricia Galloway. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xvi, 457 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8032-2157-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1748-1749 doi:10.2307/2567598
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• • Patricia Galloway

  Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians. By Jerald T. Milanich. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. xiv, 210 pp. $26.95, ISBN 1-56098-940-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1749-1750 doi:10.2307/2567599
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• • Paul A. C. Koistinen

  European and Native American Warfare, 1675–1815. By Armstrong Starkey. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. viii, 208 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8061-3074-1. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8061-3075-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1750-1751 doi:10.2307/2567600
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• • Luca Codignola

  La conversion inachevée: Les Indiens et le christianisme (The incomplete conversion: The Indians and Christianity). By Joëlle Rostkowski. (Paris: Albin Michel, 1998. ii, 429 pp. Paper, 150 FF, ISBN 2-226-09603-5.) In French

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1751-1752 doi:10.2307/2567601
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• • Jack Campisi

  Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound. By Alexandra Harmon. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 393 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-520-21176-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1752 doi:10.2307/2567602
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• • Andrew F. Clark

  Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-1904-X. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8147-1905-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1752-1753 doi:10.2307/2567603
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• • Richard Middleton

  Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561–1629. By Theodore K. Rabb. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 412 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-691-02694-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1753-1754 doi:10.2307/2567604
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• • Stephen Saunders Webb

  The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651–1695. By Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xxiv, 359 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8020-0925-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8020-8171-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1754-1755 doi:10.2307/2567605
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• • Christopher Grasso

  Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy. By Leon Chai. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvi, 164 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-512009-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1755-1756 doi:10.2307/2567606
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• • Johanna Miller Lewis

  The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities. Ed. by David Colin Crass et al. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxviii, 256 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-019-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1756-1757 doi:10.2307/2567607
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• • Keith Mason

  A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. By Lawrence E. Babits. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxi, 231 pp. and The Cousins Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Phillips. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxviii, 707 pp

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1757-1758 doi:10.2307/2567608
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• • Marvin L. Brown, Jr.

  Die amerkanische Revolution als Bürgerkrieg (The American Revolution as civil war). By Marion Breunig. (Münster: LIT, 1998. x, 361 pp. Paper, DM 59.80, ISBN 3-8258-3862-5.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1758-1759 doi:10.2307/2567609
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• • Michael P. Zuckert

  John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty. By C. Bradley Thompson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xx, 340 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0915-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1759-1760 doi:10.2307/2567610
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• • John W. Tyler

  A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere. By Jayne E. Triber. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xii, 314 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-139-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1760-1761 doi:10.2307/2567611
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• • Robert E. Shalhope

  Noah Webster: The Life and Time of an American Patriot. By Harlow Giles Unger. (New York: Wiley, 1998. xiv, 386 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-18455-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1761 doi:10.2307/2567612
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• • Simon P. Newman

  A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. By Arnold A. Rogow. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xvi, 351 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8090-4753-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1761-1762 doi:10.2307/2567613
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• • John Dinan

  Understanding State Constitutions. By G. Alan Tarr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 247 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01112-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1762-1763 doi:10.2307/2567614
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• • Gordon S. Wood

  The American Counterrevolution: A Retreat from Liberty, 1783–1800. By Larry E. Tise. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 1998. 1, 634 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8117-0100-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1763-1764 doi:10.2307/2567615
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• • June Namias

  Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. By Harry Liebersohn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 179 pp. $54.95, ISBN 0-521-64090-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1764-1765 doi:10.2307/2567616
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• • Vine Deloria, Jr.

  The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Susan Scheckel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-691-05963-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-691-05964-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1765 doi:10.2307/2567617
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• • Shirley Samuels

  Captivity & Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682–1861. By Michelle Burnham. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997. xii, 211 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87451-818-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1765-1766 doi:10.2307/2567618
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• • Laura H. Korobkin

  The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel. By Julia A. Stern. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv, 306 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-226-77310-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-226-77311-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1766-1767 doi:10.2307/2567619
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• • Michael Grossberg

  Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. By Laura Hanft Korobkin. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10508-8. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-231-10509-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1767-1768 doi:10.2307/2567620
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• • Stephen Marini

  The Self and the Sacred: Conversion and Autobiography in Early American Protestantism. By Rodger M. Payne. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. x, 123 pp. $27.00, ISBN 1-57233-015-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1768-1769 doi:10.2307/2567621
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• • Beth Barton Schweiger

  Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770–1810. By Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii, 251 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511429-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1769-1770 doi:10.2307/2567622
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• • Mark S. Schantz

  Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism. By Carolyn A. Haynes. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xxiv, 190 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-018-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1770-1771 doi:10.2307/2567623
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• • Joanne D. Chaison

  New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789–1849: An Annotated Bibliography. By Suzanne M. Clark. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xvi, 598 pp. $125.00, ISBN 0-313-28128-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1771-1772 doi:10.2307/2567624
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• • George W. Geib

  Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. By C. Edward Skeen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. x, 229 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8131-2089-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1772 doi:10.2307/2567625
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• • Kim Marra

  The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870. Ed. by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 525 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-47204-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1772-1773 doi:10.2307/2567626
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• • Daniel Walker Howe

  The Education of Phillips Brooks. By John F. Woolverton. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xiv, 153 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-252-02186-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1773-1774 doi:10.2307/2567627
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• • Anne C. Rose

  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms. By Bruce A. Ronda. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xvi, 391 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-24695-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1774-1775 doi:10.2307/2567628
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• • Sylvia D. Hoffert

  The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose. By Carol A. Kolmerten. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxx, 300 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-0528-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1775-1776 doi:10.2307/2567629
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• • Carol Lasser

  The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv and Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. By Jane Rhodes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1776-1777 doi:10.2307/2567630
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• • Lynn Hudson

  African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853–1963. By Albert S. Broussard. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. x, 244 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0916-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1777-1778 doi:10.2307/2567631
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• • Matthew Frye Jacobson

  The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Ed. by Arthur Gribben. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xii, 268 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-55849-172-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-55849-173-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1778-1779 doi:10.2307/2567632
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• • Jane Weiss

  Sur les traces de l'éléphant: Narration de voyages d'après des récits de pionnières américaines, 1840–1860 (On the trail of the elephant: Travel narratives based on the accounts of American pioneer women, 1840–1860). By Marijke Roux-Westers. (Saint-Étienne: Publications de L'Université de Saint-Etienne

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1779-1780 doi:10.2307/2567633
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• • David M. Pletcher

  Pragmatismo y principios. La relación conflictiva entre México y Estados Unidos, 1810–1942. (Pragmatism and principles. The conflictive relationship between Mexico and the United States, 1810–1942) and México al tiempo de su guerra con Estados Unidos (1846–1848) (Mexico at the time of its war with the United States [1846–1848])

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1780-1781 doi:10.2307/2567634
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• • Andrés Reséndez

  En busca de una nueva frontera: Baja California en los proyectos expansionistas Norteamericanos, 1846–1853, La ocupación yanqui de la ciudad de México, 1847–1848 and The United States and Mexico at War: Nineteenth-Century Expansionism and Conflict

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1781-1783 doi:10.2307/2567635
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• • James K. Hogue

  The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens. Vol. 1: January 1814–March 1865. Ed. by Beverly Wilson Palmer and Holly Byers Ochoa. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. xxxiv, 549 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8229-3972-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1783-1784 doi:10.2307/2567636
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• • John F. Marszalek

  Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks. By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998 and Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond. By Steven H. Newton. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1784-1786 doi:10.2307/2567637
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• • Stephen V. Ash

  Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. By David Williams. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xvi, 288 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2033-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1786 doi:10.2307/2567638
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• • Eugene H. Berwanger

  In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canadas Maritime Provinces. By Greg Marquis. (Halifax: Saint Mary's University and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xx, 389 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7735-1792-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1786-1787 doi:10.2307/2567639
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• • Daniele Fiorentino

  The Dakota War: The United States Army versus theSioux, 1862–1865. By Michael Clodfelter. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998 and Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity. By Sarah F. Wakefield. Ed. by June Namias. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1787-1789 doi:10.2307/2567640
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• • Mark E. Neely, Jr.

  All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime. By William H. Rehnquist. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 254 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-679-44661-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1789 doi:10.2307/2567641
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• • William Hanchett

  When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination. By Carolyn L. Harrell. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1997. xiv, 136 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-86554-565-0. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-86554-587-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1789-1790 doi:10.2307/2567642
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• • Shearer Davis Bowman

  Different Restorations: Reconstructions and “Wiederaufbau” in Germany and the United States: 1865, 1945, and 1989. Ed. by Norbert Finzsch and Jürgen Martschukat. (Providence: Berghahn, 1996. x, 422 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-57181-086-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1790-1791 doi:10.2307/2567643
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• • Robert D. Schulzinger

  Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991. By David Mayers. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. viii, 184 pp. and What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy. By H. W. Brands. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 335 pp.

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1791-1792 doi:10.2307/2567644
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• • Karal Ann Marling

  To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism. By Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv, 365 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-01686-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1792-1793 doi:10.2307/2567645
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• • Nicolas Proctor

  Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. By Brooks Blevins. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. xvi, 219 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-0940-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1793 doi:10.2307/2567646
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• • Jack Temple Kirby

  The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850–1995: A Study in Political Economy. By Ronald E. Seavoy. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xiv, 599 pp. $79.50, ISBN 0-313-27511-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1793-1794 doi:10.2307/2567647
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• • Roger Biles

  Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965. By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 170 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-62210-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1794-1795 doi:10.2307/2567648
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• • William A. Link

  Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community: Reformers, Schools, and Homes in Tennessee, 1900–1930. By Mary S. Hoffschwelle. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xii, 233 pp. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-021-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1795-1796 doi:10.2307/2567649
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• • Catherine J. Lavender

  Women of Oklahoma, 1890–1920. By Linda Williams Reese. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xviii, 366 pp. Cloth, $28.95, ISBN 0-8061-2955-7. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8061-2999-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1796-1797 doi:10.2307/2567650
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• • Jonathan M. Chu

  Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 354 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2432-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4739-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1797-1798 doi:10.2307/2567651
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• • Michael A. Bellesiles

  Butch Cassidy: A Biography. By Richard Patterson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvi, 362 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8032-8756-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1798 doi:10.2307/2567652
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• • Norman H. Murdoch

  From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet. By Valeen Tippetts Avery. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 357 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02399-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06701-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1798-1799 doi:10.2307/2567653
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• • W. David Baird

  White Mans Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863–1955. By Robert A. Trennert. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xii, 290 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-1839-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1799-1800 doi:10.2307/2567654
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• • Charlotte G. Borst

  An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. By Naomi Rogers. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiv, 348 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-2535-7. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8135-2536-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1800-1801 doi:10.2307/2567655
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• • Ken Cruikshank

  Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. By Sarah S. Elkind. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii, 246 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0907-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1801-1802 doi:10.2307/2567656
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• • Mariana Valverde

  Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul 1865–1883. By Joel Best. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xiv, 175 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8142-0807-X. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8142-5007-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1802-1803 doi:10.2307/2567657
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• • Joel Best

  Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800–1933. By Thomas R. Pegram. Chicago: Dee, 1998. xvi, 207 pp. $24.95 and Unorganized Crime: New Orleans in the 1920s. By Louis Vyhnanek. (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998. viii, 284 pp

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1803-1804 doi:10.2307/2567658
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• • Ruth Wallis Herndon

  The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890–1920. By David I. Macleod. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xiv, 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8057-4105-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1804-1805 doi:10.2307/2567659
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• • Jane Lewis

  A Mothers Job: The History of Day Care, 1890–1960. By Elizabeth Rose. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii, 275 pp. and Children's Interests/Mothers' Right: The Shaping of Americas Child Care Policy. By Sonya Michel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 410 pp

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1805-1806 doi:10.2307/2567660
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• • Ruth Crocker

  The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832–1900. By Kathleen Waters Sander. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 165 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02401-X. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06703-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1806-1807 doi:10.2307/2567661
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• • Claudia Clark

  Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900–1995. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xvi, 308 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-776-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-89096-798-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1807-1808 doi:10.2307/2567662
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• • Walter Licht

  Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. Ed. by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 382 pp. and Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class. Ed. by Calvin Winslow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. viii, 204 pp

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1808-1810 doi:10.2307/2567663
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• • Andrea Tone

  Unlikely Partners: Philanthropie Foundations and the Labor Movement. By Richard Magat. (Ithaca: ILR, 1999. xii, 242 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3552-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1810-1811 doi:10.2307/2567664
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• • Richard Schneirov

  State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876–1914. By Gerald Friedman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvi, 317 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8014-2325-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1811-1812 doi:10.2307/2567665
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• • Mary A. Yeager

  The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars. By Joël Glenn Brenner. (New York: Random House, 1999. xiv, 366 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-679-42190-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1812-1813 doi:10.2307/2567666
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• • Pamela Walker Laird

  Made in America: Self Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey. By Jeffrey Louis Decker. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. xxx, 170 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-8166-3020-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8166-3021-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1813-1814 doi:10.2307/2567667
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• • C. Dallett Hemphill

  Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank. Baltimore, A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. Ed. by Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone. New York and Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal. By Anya Jabour. Baltimore

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1814-1816 doi:10.2307/2567668
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• • Gail Bederman

  Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. By Mary Warner Blanchard. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xvi, 302 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-300-07460-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1816-1817 doi:10.2307/2567669
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• • E. Anthony Rotundo

  Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. By Kristin L. Hoganson. New Haven: Yale University Press and National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men. By Dana D. Nelson. Durham: Duke University Press

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1817-1818 doi:10.2307/2567670
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• • Daphne Berdahl

  The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America. Ed. by Benjamin Orlove. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. x, 226 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-472-10664-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1818-1819 doi:10.2307/2567671
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• • Kenneth J. Grieb

  Diplomacia contra diplomacia: Martí y México en América (Diplomacy against diplomacy: Marti and Mexico in America). By Rolando González Patricio. (Mexico City: LVI Legislature, 1995. 132 pp. ISBN 968-842-562-1.) In Spanish

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1819-1820 doi:10.2307/2567672
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• • Joaquín Fermandois

  USA und Mittelamerika: Die Außenpolitik von William J. Bryan, 1913–1915. (The USA and Central America: William J. Bryan's foreign policy, 1913–1915). By Ralph Died. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996. 496 pp. Paper, DM 168.00, ISBN 3-515-06914-3.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1820-1824 doi:10.2307/2567673
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• • Mark Wahlgren Summers

  Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xii, 261 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-27943-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1821-1822 doi:10.2307/2567674
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• • Mark Voss-Hubbard

  Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s. By Gene Clan ton. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xii, 228 pp. and Pursuing Majorities: Congressional Campaign Committees in American Politics. By Robin Kolodny. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xviii, 299 pp

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1822-1823 doi:10.2307/2567675
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• • George Juergens

  Managing the Press: Origins of the Media Presidency, 1897–1933. By Stephen Ponder. (New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xx, 233 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-312-21384-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1823-1824 doi:10.2307/2567676
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• • David Zarefsky

  Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective. Ed. by Richard J. Ellis. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. x, 283 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-55849-158-9. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-55849-159-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1824-1825 doi:10.2307/2567677
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• • Mel van Eiteren

  Politische Bildstrategien im amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahlkampf, 1828–1996 (Political image strategies in American presidential elections, 1828–1996). By Marion G. Müller. (Berlin: Akademie, 1997. 443 pp. DM 124, ISBN 3-05-002989-7.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1825-1826 doi:10.2307/2567678
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• • John Milton Cooper, Jr.

  In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior. By Robert M. Saunders. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. x, 273 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-30520-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1826-1827 doi:10.2307/2567679
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• • Neil A. Wynn

  Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s. Ed. by John Earl Haynes. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. xviii, 329 pp. $50.00 and Tempest over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall. By David H. Stratton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xvi, 376 pp. $29.95

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1827-1828 doi:10.2307/2567680
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• • Lawrence B. Glickman

  Why the American Century? By Olivier Zunz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 254 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-226-99461-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1828-1829 doi:10.2307/2567681
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• • James H. Madison

  The Bootlegger: A Story of Small-Town America. John E. Hallwas. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 274 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-252-02395-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1829-1830 doi:10.2307/2567682
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• • Ronald D. Eller

  Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880–1920. By Ronald L. Lewis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998 and An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression. By Jerry Bruce Thomas. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1830-1831 doi:10.2307/2567683
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• • Hal Rothman

  The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. By Steven Stoll. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xx, 273 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-21172-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1831-1832 doi:10.2307/2567684
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• • Bryan D. Palmer

  Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta. By Clyde Woods. (New York: Verso, 1998. x, 342 pp. $27.00, ISBN 1-85984-811-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1832-1833 doi:10.2307/2567685
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• • Adam Fairclough

  A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century. By Leroy Davis. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xxviii, 440 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-1987-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1833-1834 doi:10.2307/2567686
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• • Julia E. Liss

  Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity. By Micaela di Leonardo. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 445 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-47263-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1834 doi:10.2307/2567687
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• • Vernon J. Williams, Jr.

  From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954. By Lee D. Baker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 325 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-520-21167-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-21168-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1834-1835 doi:10.2307/2567688
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• • Linda Wagner-Martin

  Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Discourse in American Modernism. By Chip Rhodes. (New York: Verso, 1998. vi, 218 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-85984-833-8. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 1-85984-200-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1835-1836 doi:10.2307/2567689
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• • George H. Roeder, Jr.

  The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies. By Bennard B. Perlman. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xxii, 469 pp. $35.50, ISBN 0-7914-3835-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1836-1837 doi:10.2307/2567690
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• • Herbert Hovenkamp

  Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence. By Anthony J. Sebok. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 327 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-48041-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1837-1838 doi:10.2307/2567691
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• • Susanne Klingenstein

  The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn. Vol. 1: “A Touch of Wildness.” By Ralph Melnick. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998 and The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn. Vol. 2: “This Dark and Desperate Age.” By Ralph Melnick. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1838-1839 doi:10.2307/2567692
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• • Emily Miller Budick

  Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930–1990. By Susanne Klingenstein. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xxxiv, 492 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-0540-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1839-1840 doi:10.2307/2567693
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• • Jeff Gundy

  The Ordeal of Robert Frost: The Poet and His Poetics. By Mark Richardson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiv, 272 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-252-02338-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1840-1841 doi:10.2307/2567694
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• • Roger Horowitz

  Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933–1945. By David Palmer. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998. xx, 264 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2734-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1841-1842 doi:10.2307/2567695
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• • Michael L. Kurtz

  Huey Long Invades New Orleans: The Siege of a City, 1934–36. By Garry Boulard. (Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1998. 277 pp. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-56554-303-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1842 doi:10.2307/2567696
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• • Stephen G. Rabe

  The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1945. By Eric Paul Roorda. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. xii, 337 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2234-X. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-2123-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1842-1843 doi:10.2307/2567697
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• • James G. Ryan

  The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era. By Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev. (New York: Random House, 1999. xxviii, 402 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-45724-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1843-1844 doi:10.2307/2567698
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• • Donna R. Gabaccia

  Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. By Amy Bentley. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02419-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06727-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1844-1845 doi:10.2307/2567699
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• • R. Alton Lee

  Harvest of Dissent: The National Farmers Union and the Early Cold War. By Bruce E. Field. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. x, 244 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0903-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1845-1846 doi:10.2307/2567700
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• • Marc Dierikx

  Hoed af voor Marshall: De Marshall-hulp aan Nederland, 1947–1952 (Hats off to Marshall: The Marshall Plan in the Netherlands, 1947–1952). By Pien van der Hoeven. (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1997. 163 pp. Paper, ISBN 90-351-1847-2.) In Dutch

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1846-1847 doi:10.2307/2567701
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• • Lloyd E. Ambrosius

  Amerikanische Außenhandelspolitik im Wandel: Handelsgesetzgebung und GATT-Politik, 1945–1988 (Changing American foreign trade policy: Trade legislation and gatt policy, 1945—1988). By Monika Medick-Krakau. (Berlin: Akademie, 1995. 425 pp. DM 124.00, ISBN 3-05-002491-7.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1847 doi:10.2307/2567702
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• • H. W. Brands

  The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War. By David L. Snead. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. x, 286 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8142-0805-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8142-5005-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1847-1848 doi:10.2307/2567703
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• • Charles D. Smith

  Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance. By Abraham Ben-Zvi. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xii, 219 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-11262-9. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11263-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1848-1849 doi:10.2307/2567704
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• • Peter L. Hahn

  The Columbia Guide to the Cold War. By Michael Kort. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xvi, 366 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-231-10772-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1849-1850 doi:10.2307/2567705
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• • Ellen Schrecker

  The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950. By Lisle A. Rose. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. x, 404 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0928-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1850-1851 doi:10.2307/2567706
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• • Charles Chatfield

  The Struggle against the Bomb. Vol. 2: Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954–1970. By LawrenceS. Wittner. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xvi, 641 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-2918-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1851-1852 doi:10.2307/2567707
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• • Eugene McCarraher

  Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941–1993. By Mark Hulsether. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xl, 374 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-022-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1852 doi:10.2307/2567708
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• • William F. Holmes

  The Rural South since World War II. Ed. by R. Douglas Hurt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xii, 202 pp. $35.00 and The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms. By Stewart E. Tolnay. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1853-1854 doi:10.2307/2567709
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• • David L. Chappell

  When the Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. By Donald E. Collins. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998. xii, 177 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554-605-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1854-1855 doi:10.2307/2567710
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• • Robert Coles

  Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center. By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xx, 304 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-1687-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1855-1856 doi:10.2307/2567711
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• • Ralph E. Luker

  Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. By Gerald Posner. (New York: Random House, 1998. xii, 446 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-375-50082-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1856 doi:10.2307/2567712
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• • Leonard Dinnerstein

  African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict. Ed. by V. P. Franklin et al. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. x, 366 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1197-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1856-1857 doi:10.2307/2567713
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• • James Smethurst

  A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics. By Komozi Woodard. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxii, 329 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2457-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4761-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1857-1858 doi:10.2307/2567714
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• • Michael K. Brown

  Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State. By Robert C. Lieberman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 306 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-7456-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1858-1859 doi:10.2307/2567715
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• • Anthony M. Orum

  Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University. By Donald Alexander Downs. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xii, 359 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3653-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1859-1860 doi:10.2307/2567716
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• • Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.

  Sometimes There Is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality. By Rodolfo F. Acuna. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. xviii, 292 pp. Cloth, $36.00, ISBN 0-268-01762-X. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-268-01763-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1860-1861 doi:10.2307/2567717
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• • Brian C. Hosmer

  The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources. By Donald L. Fixico. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1998. xxiv, 258 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-87081-498-2. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-87081-517-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1861 doi:10.2307/2567718
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• • Donald L. Fixico

  To Show Heart: Native American Self Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1960–1975. By George Pierre Castile. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xxviii, 227 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8165-1837-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1861-1862 doi:10.2307/2567719
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• • Susan Ware

  The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment. By Susan M. Hartmann. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 292 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07464-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1862-1863 doi:10.2307/2567720
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• • Donald J. Pisani

  Uphill against Water: The Great Dakota Water War. By Peter Carrels. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1496-0. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8032-6397-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1863-1864 doi:10.2307/2567721
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• • Michael Les Benedict

  The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective. By Charles R. Epp. Chicago, Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights. By John J. Dinan. Lawrence and The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism. By Laura Kalman. New Haven

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1864-1867 doi:10.2307/2567722
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• • Randall W. Bland

  Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court. By Edward Lazarus. New York: Penguin, 1999 and Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End. By David N. Atkinson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1867-1868 doi:10.2307/2567723
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• • Brigitte L. Nacos

  Neue Politiker und Parteiströmungen im US-Kongreß: Zum Wandel der Struktur politischer Entscheidungsprozesse, 1959–1994 (New politicians and party trends in the U.S. Congress: Changes in the structure of the political decisionmaking process, 1959–1994). By Söhnke Schreyer. Frankfurt: Campus, 1997

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1868-1869 doi:10.2307/2567724
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• • Joel H. Rosenthal

  A World Transformed. By George Bush and Brent Scowcroft. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 590 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-679-43248-5. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-679-75259-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1869-1870 doi:10.2307/2567725
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• • David Koistinen

  Interpreting NAFTA: The Science and Art of Political Analysis. By Frederick W. Mayer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xiv, 374 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-10980-6. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-10981-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1870-1871 doi:10.2307/2567726
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• • David S. Patterson

  The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations. By Brian C. Schmidt. Albany, Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another. By Spencer R. Weart. New Haven and The United Nations and the United States. By Gary B. Ostrower. New York

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1871-1873 doi:10.2307/2567727
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• • Alan R. Raucher

  The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations. By Karen S. Miller. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 261 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2439-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1873-1874 doi:10.2307/2567728
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• • William Paul

  Refiguring American Film Genres: History and Theory. Ed. by Nick Browne. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 326 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-520-20730-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-520-20731-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1874-1875 doi:10.2307/2567729
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• • James J. Connolly

  Trustee for a City: Ralph Lowell of Boston. By Mark I. Gelfand. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xviii, 322 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-55553-369-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1875 doi:10.2307/2567730
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• • Janet Farrell Brodie

  On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950–1970. By Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 183 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-8018-5876-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1876 doi:10.2307/2567731
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• • James F. Tent

  From Duppel to Truman Plaza: Die Berlin American Community in den Jahren 1965 bis 1989 (From Duppel to Truman Plaza: The Berlin American community during the years 1965 to 1989). By Gabriele Heidenfelder. (Münster: LIT, 1998. 175 pp. Paper, ISBN 3-8258-3270-8.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1876-1877 doi:10.2307/2567732
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• • Jeffery C. Livingston

  Americanization and Australia. Ed. by Philip Bell and Roger Bell. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1998. xii, 282 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-86840-784-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1877-1878 doi:10.2307/2567733
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• • J. Michael Hogan

  Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process. By Susan Herbst. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x, 256 pp. Cloth, $41.00, ISBN 0-226-32746-9. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-226-32747-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1878-1879 doi:10.2307/2567734
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• • Günther Barth

  Anaheim—Utopia Americana. Vom Weinland zum Walt Disney—Land: Eine Stadtbiographie (Anaheim—Utopia Americana. From vineyard to Disneyland: An urban biography). By Rainer Vollmar. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1998. 289 pp. Paper, DM 96, ISBN 3-515-07308-6.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1879-1880 doi:10.2307/2567735
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• • Michael Kammen

  Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums. By Patricia West. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press and Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum. By Steven C. Dubin. New York: New York University Press

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1880-1884 doi:10.2307/2567736
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• • Barbie Zelizer

  Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park. By Joan M. Zenzen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998 and Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. By David Lowenthal. New York: Free Press, 1996

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1881-1883 doi:10.2307/2567737
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• • Christin J. Mamiya

  Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture. By Meaghan Morris. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xxvi, 310 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33395-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 86(4): 1883-1884 doi:10.2307/2567738
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