Book Reviews

• • Nick Salvatore

  American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor. By Jacqueline Jones. (New York: Norton, 1998. 543 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-393-04561-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 622-623 doi:10.2307/2568771
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• • William J. Novak

  Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970. By Gregory S. Alexander. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. x, 486 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-226-01353-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 623-625 doi:10.2307/2568772
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• • Walter Dean Burnham

  Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996. By John Gerring. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 337 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-521-59262-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 625-627 doi:10.2307/2568773
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• • Mary Ann Dzuback

  When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America. By Marilyn Jacoby Boxer. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xxvi, 360 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8018-5834-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 627-628 doi:10.2307/2568774
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• • James R. Ackerman

  Maps and Politics. By Jeremy Black. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 188 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-05493-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 628-629 doi:10.2307/2568775
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• • Suzanne Marshall

  The Everglades: An Environmental History. By David McCally. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. xxii, 215 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-1648-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 629 doi:10.2307/2568776
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• • Robert Bunting

  Terra Pacifica: People and Place in the Northwest States and Western Canada. Ed. by Paul W. Hirt. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1998. xviii, 223 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-87422-163-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-87422-162-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 630 doi:10.2307/2568777
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• • Beth LaDow

  The New Encyclopedia of the American West. Ed. by Howard R. Lamar. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xviii, 1,324 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-300-07088-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 631 doi:10.2307/2568778
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• • Richard V. Francaviglia

  Copper for America: The Unites States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xviii, 267 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1817-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 631-632 doi:10.2307/2568779
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• • Helen Bradley Foster

  Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xviii, 301 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8014-3179-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 632-633 doi:10.2307/2568780
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• • Kenneth W. Rose

  Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities. Ed. by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xviii, 420 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33500-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 633-634 doi:10.2307/2568781
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• • John E. Semonche

  A People's History of the Supreme Court. By Peter Irons. (New York: Viking, 1999. xviii, 542 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-670-87006-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 634 doi:10.2307/2568782
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• • William H. Worger

  Terrific Majesty: The Powers ofShaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention. By Carolyn Hamilton. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 278 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-87445-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-67487446-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 635 doi:10.2307/2568783
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• • James M. Bergquist

  Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America since 1776. Ed. by David E. Barclay and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt. (Washington and Cambridge: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1997. viii, 373 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-521-58091-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 635-636 doi:10.2307/2568784
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• • Norman E. Saul

  Istoriia russkoi Ameriki, 1732—1867 (History of Russian America, 1732–1867). Vol. 1: Osnovanie russkoi Ameriki, 1732–1799 (The founding of Russian America, 1732–1799). Ed. by N. N. Bolkhovitinov. (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia, 1997.479 pp. Cloth, ISBN 5-7133-0883-9.) In Russian

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 636-637 doi:10.2307/2568785
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• • Jack Crowley

  New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada. By Marc Egnal. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx, 236 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-511482-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 637-638 doi:10.2307/2568786
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• • John K. Chance

  Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America. By Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. x, 151 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8263-2108-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8263-1894-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 638-639 doi:10.2307/2568787
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• • Arthur H. DeRosier, Jr.

  Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835. By Theda Perdue. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xii, 252 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-3716-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 639 doi:10.2307/2568788
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• • Virginia DeJohn Anderson

  John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiv, 331 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-47537-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 639-640 doi:10.2307/2568789
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• • Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola

  Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives. By Pauline Turner Strong. (Boulder: Westview, 1999. xvii, 261 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8133-1665-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 640-641 doi:10.2307/2568790
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• • Philip F. Gura

  Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature. By James D. Hartman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press and Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing. By Jim Egan. (Princeton: Princeton University Press

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 641-643 doi:10.2307/2568791
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• • J. Richard Olivas

  Inventing the “Great Awakening.” By Frank Lambert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv, 300 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-6910-4379-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 643-644 doi:10.2307/2568792
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• • Thomas J. Humphrey

  These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey. By Brendan McConville. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvi, 318 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3389-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 644 doi:10.2307/2568793
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• • María del Carmen Barcia

  Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616–1782. By Virginia Bernhard. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xx, 316 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1227-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 644-645 doi:10.2307/2568794
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• • Christopher Phillips

  “Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction”: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. By Midori Takagi. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xii, 187 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1834-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 645-646 doi:10.2307/2568795
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• • Rebecca Starr

  Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics in Colonial Virginia. By John Gilman Kolp. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xiv, 249 pp. $46.00, ISBN 0-8018-5843-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 646-647 doi:10.2307/2568796
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• • Robert Blair St. George

  George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America. By Robert E Dalzell Jr. and Lee Baldwin Dalzell. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxii, 300 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-512114-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 647-648 doi:10.2307/2568797
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• • Edward Countryman

  The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. By Alfred F. Young. (Boston: Beacon, 1999. xx, 262 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-8070-7140-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 648-649 doi:10.2307/2568798
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• • John F. Woolverton

  Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy during the American Revolution. By Nancy L. Rhoden. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xii, 205 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-7519-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 649 doi:10.2307/2568799
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• • John Corrigan

  Benjamin Franklin and His Gods. By Kerry S. Walters. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 213 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02433-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06739-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 649-650 doi:10.2307/2568800
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• • A. Owen Aldridge

  Thomas Paine contre l'imposture des prêtres (Thomas Paine against the fallacy of the priests). By Nathalie Caron. (Paris: Harmattan, 1998. 543 pp. Paper, F 260, ISBN 2-7384-7193-5.) In French

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 650-651 doi:10.2307/2568801
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• • Cathy Matson

  In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xiv, 397 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-07388-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 651-652 doi:10.2307/2568802
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• • David Syrett

  Neptune's Militia: The Frigate South Carolina during the American Revolution. By James A. Lewis. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1999. x, 235 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-632-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 652-653 doi:10.2307/2568803
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• • Jack N. Rakove

  American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding. By Gary Rosen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xii, 237 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0960-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 653 doi:10.2307/2568804
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• • Robert M. Goldman

  Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections. By Donald Grier Stephenson Jr. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xvi, 363 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 0-231-10034-5. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-231-10035-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 653-654 doi:10.2307/2568805
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• • Gaspare J. Saladino

  The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789–1801. By David P. Currie. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xvi, 327 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-226-13114-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 654-655 doi:10.2307/2568806
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• • Marc M. Arkin

  Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie and The Port Folio, 1801–1812. By William C. Dowling. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 127 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-57003-243-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 655-656 doi:10.2307/2568807
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• • William C. Dowling

  Federalists Reconsidered. Ed. by Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia and A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic. Ed. by Donald R. Kennon. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xiv, 583 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-1795-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 656-657 doi:10.2307/2568808
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• • Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

  Political Terrain: Washington, D. C, from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis. By Carl Abbott. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xviii, 252 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2478-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4805-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 657-658 doi:10.2307/2568809
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• • Amy Bridges

  The Birth of Empire: De Witt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769–1828. By Evan Cornog. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. x, 224 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-511949-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 658-659 doi:10.2307/2568810
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• • John Lauritz Larson

  Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815–1836. By Harlow W. Sheidley. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xviii, 283 pp. $50.00, ISBN 1-55553-370-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 659-660 doi:10.2307/2568811
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• • C. Edward Skeen

  The Battle of New Orleans. By Robert V. Remini. (New York: Viking, 1999. xiv, 226 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-670-88551-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 660 doi:10.2307/2568812
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• • William R. Swagerty

  From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The “Bold and Dashing Life” of Robert Campbell. By William R. Nester. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiv, 270 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1218-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 660-661 doi:10.2307/2568813
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• • Paul H. Carlson

  The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821–1859. By Kelly F. Himmel. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xviii, 192 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-89096-867-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 661-662 doi:10.2307/2568814
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• • Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

  The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. By Christoph Irmscher. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xx, 354 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-8135-2615-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 662-663 doi:10.2307/2568815
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• • Robert A. Ferguson

  Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. By Jerome Loving. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 568 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-21427-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 663-664 doi:10.2307/2568816
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• • Rosemarie K. Bank

  Democracy at the Opera: Music, Theater, and Culture in New York City, 1815–60. By Karen Ahlquist. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xx, 248 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02272-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 664 doi:10.2307/2568817
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• • John Dizikes

  New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music. By Jack Sullivan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xx, 262 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07231-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 664-665 doi:10.2307/2568818
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• • Lisa Wilson

  In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century. By Catherine E. Kelly. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvi, 258 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3076-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 665-666 doi:10.2307/2568819
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• • Martha Hodes

  Love across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass. By Maria Diedrich. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. xxx, 480 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8090-1613-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 666-667 doi:10.2307/2568820
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• • Ana R. Suárez

  Doniphans Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War. By Joseph G. Dawson III. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xiv, 325 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0956-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 667-668 doi:10.2307/2568821
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• • Ronald J. Granieri

  Preußens und Sachsens Beziehungen zu den USA während des Sezessionskrieges, 1860–1865 (Prussia's and Saxony's relations with the United States during the Civil War, 1860–1865). By Michael Löfflen (Münster: lit, 1999. viii, 353 pp. Paper, DM 59.80, ISBN 3-8258-4185-5.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 668-669 doi:10.2307/2568822
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• • Lesley J. Gordon

  George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman. By Thomas J. Rowland. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xiv, 248 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-87338-603-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 669-670 doi:10.2307/2568823
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• • John H. DeBerry

  Maryland's Blue and Gray: A Border State's Union and Confederate Junior Officer Corps. By Kevin Conley Ruffner. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xviii, 428 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2135-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 670 doi:10.2307/2568824
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• • Donald Yacovone

  Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862–1865. By Noah Andre Trudeau. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. xxii, 548 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-316-85325-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 670-671 doi:10.2307/2568825
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• • Noel C. Fisher

  Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860–1870. By W. Todd Groce. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xviii, 218 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-057-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 671-672 doi:10.2307/2568826
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• • Steven E. Tripp

  Confederate Home Front: Montgomery during the Civil War. By William Warren Rogers Jr. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xiv, 208 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-0962-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 672-673 doi:10.2307/2568827
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• • David B. Chesebrough

  Religion and the American Civil War. Ed. by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv, 422 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-512128-7. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-19-512129-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 673-674 doi:10.2307/2568828
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• • John B. Boles

  A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South. By Eugene D. Genovese. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xviii, 180 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2046-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 674 doi:10.2307/2568829
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• • Christine Leigh Heyrman

  Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863–1877. By Daniel W. Stowell. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. x, 278 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-19-510194-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 674-675 doi:10.2307/2568830
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• • Norma Basch

  The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present. By Mary Frances Berry. (New York: Knopf, 1999. vii, 295 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-679-43611-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 675-676 doi:10.2307/2568831
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• • LeeAnn Whites

  Women and the Creation of Urban Life, Dallas, Texas, 1843–1920. By Elizabeth York Enstam. (College Station, Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women s Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893–1918. By Judith N. McArthur. (Urbana and Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. By Jacquelyn Masur McElhaney. (College Station

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 676-678 doi:10.2307/2568832
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• • Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

  African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905–1945. By Judith Weisenfeld. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. viii, 231 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00778-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 678-679 doi:10.2307/2568833
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• • Peggy Pascoe

  We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880–1960. Ed. by Melanie Gustafson, Kris tie Miller, and Elisabeth I. Perry, Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture & Votes for Women. By Margaret Finnegan and White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. By Louise Michele Newman

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 679-681 doi:10.2307/2568834
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• • Julia Kirk Blackwelder

  A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century. By Sheila Rowbotham. (New York: Penguin, 1997. xiv, 764 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-670-87420-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-14-023282-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 681-682 doi:10.2307/2568835
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• • Leslie Fishbein

  Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920. By Beryl Satter. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 382 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-21765-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 682-683 doi:10.2307/2568836
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• • Nan Enstad

  For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. By Lauren Rabinovitz. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xvi, 233 pp. Cloth, $49.00, ISBN 0-8135-2533-0. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8135-2534-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 683-684 doi:10.2307/2568837
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• • Scott A. Sandage

  The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture. By Howard P. Chudacoff. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. x, 341 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-02796-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 684-685 doi:10.2307/2568838
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• • David T. Beito

  A Young Mans Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860–1929. By George Emery and J. C. Herbert Emery. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xx, 184 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7735- 1824-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 685 doi:10.2307/2568839
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• • Daniel Wickberg

  Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America. By Peter N. Stearns. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xiv, 434 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8147-8128-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 686 doi:10.2307/2568840
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• • Thomas H. Leahey

  Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology. By John A. Mills. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. xiv, 246 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8147-5611-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 686-687 doi:10.2307/2568841
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• • Barbara M. Kelly

  Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages. By Neil Harris. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. x, 198 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-07045-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 687-688 doi:10.2307/2568842
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• • Elizabeth Blackmar

  A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. By Witold Rybczynski. (New York: Scribner, 1999. 480 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-684-82463-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 688-689 doi:10.2307/2568843
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• • Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

  Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains. By Eric Purchase. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 192 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-6013-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 689-690 doi:10.2307/2568844
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• • Marguerite S. Shaffer

  The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls. By Karen Dubinsky. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xiv, 290 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN 0-8135-2655-8. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-8135-2656-6.)

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• • Dona Brown

  Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland. By Steven D. Hoelscher. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xx, 327 pp. Cloth, $57.95, ISBN 0-299-15950-7. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-299-15954-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 690-691 doi:10.2307/2568846
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• • Robert E. Weems, Jr.

  American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998. By Ted Ownby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 228 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2479-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4806-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 691-692 doi:10.2307/2568847
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• • Regina Lee Blaszczyk

  Lead Us into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism. By James B. Twitchell. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. x, 310 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-231-11518-0.) and Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xvi, 377 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-05827-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 692-694 doi:10.2307/2568848
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• • Meg Jacobs

  A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society. By Lawrence B. Glickman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xviii, 220 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3357-6. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8014-8614-9.)

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• • James Weinstein

  Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917. By Elizabeth Sanders. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. x, 532 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-226-73476-5. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-226-73477-3.)

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• • Stephen H. Norwood

  The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Ed. by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press and The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 695-697 doi:10.2307/2568851
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• • Mercedes Steedman

  Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 229 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5989-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 697-698 doi:10.2307/2568852
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• • Gerald Sorin

  Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America. By Jack Glazier. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. x, 245 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3522-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 698-699 doi:10.2307/2568853
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• • Hasia R. Diner

  How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America. By Karen Brodkin. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiv, 243 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-8135-2589-6. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8135-2590-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 699-700 doi:10.2307/2568854
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• • Päivi H. Hoikkala

  Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and Reformer. By Benson Tong. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xx, 285 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3140-3.)

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• • Helen M. Bannan

  Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934. By Margaret D. Jacobs. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xvi, 273 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-2586-5. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8032-7609-5.)

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• • Robert H. Keller

  Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. By Mark David Spence. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 190 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-511882-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 701-702 doi:10.2307/2568857
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• • Susan Lee Johnson

  The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Cornstock Lode. By Ronald M. James. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998. xxiv, 355 pp. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-87417-320-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 702-703 doi:10.2307/2568858
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• • Richard N. Ellis

  Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860–1940. By William Wyckoff. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 336 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07118-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 703-704 doi:10.2307/2568859
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• • John Walton

  Irrigated Eden: The Making o f an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. By Mark Fiege. (Seattle: University of Washington Press and The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. By Blake Gumprecht. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 369 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6047-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 704-705 doi:10.2307/2568860
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• • Steven Stoll

  California & the Fictions of Capital. By George L. Henderson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxviii, 265 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-510890-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 705-706 doi:10.2307/2568861
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• • Jerome O. Steffen

  Wild West Shows. By Paul Reddin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xviii, 312 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02464-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06787-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 706-707 doi:10.2307/2568862
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• • Thomas K. McCraw

  Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. By Margaret Levenstein. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xvi, 277 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3003-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 707-708 doi:10.2307/2568863
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• • I. B. Holley, Jr.

  After the Trenches: The Transformation of U.S. Army Doctrine, 1918–1939. By William O. Odom. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xii, 282 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-89096-838-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 708 doi:10.2307/2568864
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• • Manfred Jonas

  The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900. By Frank Ninkovich. (Chicago and Macht und Moral: Beiträge zur Ideologie und Praxis amerikanischer Außenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert (Power and morality In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 709-710 doi:10.2307/2568865
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• • Patrick S. Washburn

  War & Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power. By Jeffery A. Smith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509945-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-509946-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 710-711 doi:10.2307/2568866
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• • Barbara Bair

  Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America. By Winston James. (New York: Verso, 1998. x, 406 pp. $27.00, ISBN 1-85984-999-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 711-712 doi:10.2307/2568867
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• • Thomas R. Pegram

  Prohibition and Politics: The Life of Bishop James Cannon Jr. By Robert A. Hohner. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 454 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-57003-281-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 712-713 doi:10.2307/2568868
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• • Joseph A. McCartin

  Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s. By David J. Goldberg. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 210 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6004-0. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8018-6005-9.)

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• • Molly Ladd-Taylor

  Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. By Nancy L. Gallagher. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999. xvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87451-951-9. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-87451-952-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 713-714 doi:10.2307/2568870
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• • Friedrich E. Schuler

  Bewegung oder Verein? Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspolitik in den USA (Movement or association? National Socialist folk politics in the United States). By Cornelia Wilhelm. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1998. 329 pp. DM 86, ISBN 3-515-06805-8.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 714-715 doi:10.2307/2568871
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• • Henry D. Shapiro

  Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk 1930–1940. By Jane S. Becker. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 331 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2408-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4715-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 715-716 doi:10.2307/2568872
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• • Alessandro Portelli

  Pistol Packiri Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong. By Shelly Romalis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 239 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02421-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06728-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 716-717 doi:10.2307/2568873
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• • Robbie Lieberman

  Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. By Paul C. Mishler. (New York: Columbia University Press and Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left. Ed. by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 717-718 doi:10.2307/2568874
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• • Ann Fabian

  Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing. By Samuel V. Kennedy III. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxii, 393 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8156-2799-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 718-719 doi:10.2307/2568875
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• • Susan L. Smith

  New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration. By Michael R. Grey. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xx, 238 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-5939-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 719-720 doi:10.2307/2568876
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• • Lora Knight

  100 Percent American Boys: Disziplinierungsdiskurse and Ideologie im Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942 (100 percent American boys: Discourses of discipline in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942). By Olaf Stieglitz. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999. 251 pp. Paper, DM 88, ISBN 3-515-07403-1.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 720-721 doi:10.2307/2568877
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• • J. Christopher Schnell

  Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer. By June Hopkins. (New York: St. Martin's, 1999. x, 271 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-312-21206-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 721-722 doi:10.2307/2568878
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• • Julian Zelizer

  Race, Money, and the American Welfare State. By Michael K. Brown. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xxiv, 381 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8014-3510-2. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8014-8510-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 722 doi:10.2307/2568879
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• • Mark H. Leff

  Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. By David M. Kennedy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xx, 936 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-503834-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 723 doi:10.2307/2568880
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• • Arthur L. Funk

  Franklin Roosevelt et la France, 1939–1945: La diplomatie de l'entêtement (Franklin Roosevelt and France, 1939–1945: The diplomacy of obstinacy). By André Béziat. (Paris: Harmattan, 1997. 510 pp. Paper, F 270, ISBN 2-7384-6070-4.) In French

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 723-724 doi:10.2307/2568881
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• • Paul D. Casdorph

  Louisiana during World War II: Politics and Society, 1939–1945. By Jerry Purvis Sanson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xvi, 323 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8071-2308-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 724-725 doi:10.2307/2568882
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• • Laurence M. Hauptman

  Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II. Byjere' Bishop Franco. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1999. xviii, 232 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-57441-065-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 725-726 doi:10.2307/2568883
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• • Naoko Shibusawa

  Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan. By Yukiko Koshiro. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 295 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11348-X. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-231-11349-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 726-727 doi:10.2307/2568884
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• • R. Lane Fenrich

  Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons. By Paul Boyer. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xx, 280 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8142-0785-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8142-0786-3.)

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• • James R. Hansen

  Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972. By Robert P. Crease. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 434 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-226-12017-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 728 doi:10.2307/2568886
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• • Bruce E. Seely

  Builders: Herman and George R. Brown. By Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xxii, 326 pp. $36.95, ISBN 0-89096-840-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 728-729 doi:10.2307/2568887
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• • Gregory L. Schneider

  The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America. By Lee Edwards. (New York: Free Press, 1999. viii, 391 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-684-83500-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 729-730 doi:10.2307/2568888
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• • Bruce Kuklick

  The Contender: Richard Nixon: The Congress Years, 1946–1952. By Irwin F. Gellman. (New York: Free Press, 1999. xvi, 590 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-85064-8.) and The Presidency of Richard Nixon. By Melvin Small. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xx, 387 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0973-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 730-731 doi:10.2307/2568889
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• • John Robert Greene

  Truman Defeats Dewey. By Gary A. Donaldson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xii, 270 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8131-2075-6.) and Harry S. Truman and the News Media: Contentious Relations, Belated Respect. By Franklin D. Mitchell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xviii, 277 pp. $34.95, ISBN 08262-1180-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 731-733 doi:10.2307/2568890
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• • Roberto Rabel

  The Shaping of Containment: Harry S. Truman, the National Security Council, and the Cold War. By Sara L. Sale. (Saint James, N.Y.: Brandywine and Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War. By Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 733-734 doi:10.2307/2568891
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• • James Schwoch

  U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947–1960. By Nancy E. Bernhard. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx, 245 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-59415-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 734-735 doi:10.2307/2568892
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• • Lars Schoultz

  Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. By Nick Cullather. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xl, 142 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8047-3310-4. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8047-3311-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 735-736 doi:10.2307/2568893
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• • S. Ilan Troen

  Israel and the Bomb. By Avner Cohen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xx, 470 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-231-10482-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 736-737 doi:10.2307/2568894
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• • James G. Hershberg

  Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961–63. By Kendrick Oliver. (New York: St. Martin's, 1998. x, 252 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-312-17599-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 737-738 doi:10.2307/2568895
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• • Andreas Reichstein

  America's Space Sentinels: dsp Satellites and National Security. By Jeffrey T. Richelson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xx, 329 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0942-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 738 doi:10.2307/2568896
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• • George H. Douglas

  The World through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury. By Mary E Corey. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xvi, 251 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-674-96193-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 738-739 doi:10.2307/2568897
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• • Sonya Michel

  Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption. By E. Wayne Carp. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xvi, 304 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-79668-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 739-740 doi:10.2307/2568898
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• • Douglas Monroy

  Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900–1945. By Edward J. Escobar. (Berkeley: University of California Press and The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent. By Ernesto B. Vigil. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 740-741 doi:10.2307/2568899
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• • Edward J. Escobar

  Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York. By Eric C. Schneider. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xx, 334 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-00141-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 742 doi:10.2307/2568900
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• • Thomas A. Underwood

  But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative. By Fred Hobson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xvi, 159 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-8071-2384-6. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8071-2410-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 742-743 doi:10.2307/2568901
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• • William Seraile

  In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. By Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xvi, 439 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-87338-607-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 743-744 doi:10.2307/2568902
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• • Robert L. Harris, Jr.

  Malcolm and the Cross: The Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and Christianity. By Louis A. DeCaro Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. xvi, 270 pp. $29.95, ISBN 08147-1860-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 744-745 doi:10.2307/2568903
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• • Wilson J. Moses

  Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought. By Rupert Charles Lewis. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. xviii, 298 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8143-2743-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8143-2744-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 745-746 doi:10.2307/2568904
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• • Keith Byerman

  Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960–1995. By Julius E. Thompson. (Jefferson: McFarland, 1999. viii, 344 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-7864-0360-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 746 doi:10.2307/2568905
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• • Gregory W. Bush

  Black Miami in the Twentieth Century. By Marvin Dunn. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. xviii, 414 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-1530-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 746-747 doi:10.2307/2568906
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• • William J. Duiker

  A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of Americas Last Years in Vietnam. By Lewis Sorley. (New York: Harcourt Brace, The Vietnam War. Ed. by Peter Lowe. (New York: St. Martins and The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II. By Robert J. McMahon. (New York: Columbia University Press

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 747-749 doi:10.2307/2568907
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• • Karen G. Turner

  Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. By Sandra C. Taylor. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xii, 170 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0927-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 749-750 doi:10.2307/2568908
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• • Mary Hershberger

  Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life. By Robert Buzzanco. (Maiden: Blackwell, 1999. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $52.95, ISBN 1-57718-093-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-57718-094-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 750-751 doi:10.2307/2568909
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• • David F. Schmitz

  Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. By Robert David Johnson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 375 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-26060-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 751-752 doi:10.2307/2568910
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• • Paul Joseph

  Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War. By Mary Hershberger. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xxvi, 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0517-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 752-753 doi:10.2307/2568911
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• • Michael S. Foley

  The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. By Andrew E. Hunt. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xii, 259 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8147-3581-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 753 doi:10.2307/2568912
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• • Mark Bradley

  Warring Fictions: American Literary Culture and the Vietnam War Narrative. By Jim Neilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xii, 256 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806087-7. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-088-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 753-754 doi:10.2307/2568913
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• • G. Kurt Piehler

  Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. By Kristin Ann Hass. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-52020413-1. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-520-21317-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 754-755 doi:10.2307/2568914
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• • Jack Luie

  Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network. By Matthew Lasar. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xvi, 277 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-56639-660-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 755-756 doi:10.2307/2568915
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• • Susan Canedy

  American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. By Frederick J. Simonelli. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 206 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02285-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 756-757 doi:10.2307/2568916
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• • Howard Brick

  A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. By Dominick Cavallo. (New York: St. Martins, 1999. vi, 282 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-312-21930-X.) and The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance. By Stephen Paul Miller. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv, 413 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8223-2154-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8223-2166-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 757-758 doi:10.2307/2568917
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• • Ian Gordon

  The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music. By Jeff Smith. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xii, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10862-1. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-10863-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 758-759 doi:10.2307/2568918
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• • Andrew D. Grossman

  Still Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shapes the New American Politics. By John Kenneth White. (Boulder: Westview, 1997. xii, 387 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8133-1888-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2000) 87(2): 759-760 doi:10.2307/2568919
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• • John A. Britton

  México y Estados Unidos en la revolutión mundial de las telecomunicaciones (Mexico and the United States in the global revolution of telecommunications). By Ana Luz Ruelas. (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1996. 307 pp. Paper, ISBN 968-763-632-7.) In Spanish

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