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Book Reviews September 1997, Vol. 84, No. 2
[Table of Contents] Alphabetical by Book Author's Last Name A \| B \| C \| D \| E \| F \| G \| H \| I \| J \| K \| L \| M \| N \| O \| P \| Q \| R \| S \| T \| U \| V \| W \| X \| Y \| Z \|
A	[Top]
Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth;Wainstock, The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb; Weintraub, The Last Great Victory;Ferrell, ed., Harry S. Truman and the Bomb; and Linenthal and Engelhardt, eds., History Wars, by Alonzo Hamby Aron, How the West Was Lost, by James C. Klotter Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, vol. 1: Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850, by Shearer Davis Bowman
B	[Top]
Ball, Hugo L. Black, by Philippa Strum Baynton, Forbidden Signs, by Tamara Plakins Thornton Beik, The Miners of Windber, by Philip Mellinger Berkin, First Generations, by Lee Chambers-Schiller Blackford and Kerr, BFGoodrich, by Keith L. Bryant Jr. Blackwell, On Brave Old Army Team, by Robert L. Goldich Borst, Catching Babies, by Deborah Kuhn McGregor Brooks, Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution, by Susan E. Gray Brundage, A Socialist Utopia in the New South, by John M. Glen Buell, The Warrior Generals, by John F. Marszalek Butler and Siporin, Uncommon Common Women, by Susan Armitage Buzzanco, Masters of War, by Vincent Davis
C	[Top]
Canning, American Dreamers, by Louis W. Liebovich Carlisle, with Zenzen, Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal, by Rip Bulkeley Carr, Belleville, Ottawa, and Galesburg; Hurt, The Ohio Frontier; and Cayton, Frontier Indiana, by John Mack Faragher Chaffin, Fatal Glory, by John H. Schroeder Chappell, Before the Bomb, by David L. Porter Chauncey, Gay New York, by Lizabeth Cohen Critchlow, Studebaker, by Charles W. Cheape
D	[Top]
Davis, The Cause Lost, by Ludwell H. Johnson III DeArment, Alias Frank Canton, by Andrew Rolle Denning, The Cultural Front, by Michael Rogin Dickinson, Bitter Harvest, by Elliot A. Rosen Digby-Junger, The Journalist as Reformer, by Daniel W. Pfaff Dilworth, Imagining Indians in the Southwest, by Helen M. Bannan Dooley, Robert Kennedy, by Paul R. Henggeler Dumenil, The Modern Temper, by Paul V. Murphy
E, F	[Top]
Eicher, The Civil War in Books; and Woodworth, ed., The American Civil War, by Edward Hagerman Engelbourg and Bushkoff, The Man Who Found the Money, by Irving Katz Engelman, Public Radio and Television in America, by John J. Pauly Etcheson, The Emerging Midwest, by Philip R. VanderMeer Feingold, Lest Memory Cease, by Edward S. Shapiro Finegold and Skocpol, State and Party in America's New Deal, by Thomas Ferguson Franklin, Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths, by Richard Rath Frazer and O'Sullivan, "We Have Just Begun to Not Fight"; and Haig-Brown, Hell No, We Won't Go, by Geoffrey S. Smith Fuller, At the Picture Show, by Lewis A. Erenberg
G	[Top]
Gabriel, Gambler Way, by Armand S. La Potin García, Havana USA, by Gary R. Mormino Gengarelly, Distinguished Dissenters and Opposition to the 1919-1920 Red Scare, by William Preston Jr. Gilje, Rioting in America; and Pamplona, Riots, Republicanism, and Citizenship, by Michael Feldberg Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow, by Catherine Clinton Gjerde, The Minds of the West, by Nicole Etcheson Gordon, Passage to Union, by William Deverell Gould, Covenant and Republic, by David S. Reynolds Gray, The Yankee West, by Willard Carl Klunder Greene, ed. by Strickland, Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson, by H. Leon Prather Sr. Greenwald and Anderson, eds., Pittsburgh Surveyed, by John F. McClymer Guthrie, The New-York Historical Society, by Robert I. Goler
H, I	[Top]
Hankins, God's Rascal, by Margaret L. Bendroth Harper, The Quality of Mercy, by Paul T. Phillips Hartford, Where Is Our Responsibility?, by Timothy J. Minchin Hayes, A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf, by Jane Kamensky Hearn, Six Years of Hell, by Robert Hartje Heikkonen, Reaping the Bounty, by Maury Klein Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead, by Thomas R. Maddux Higginbotham, Shades of Freedom, by Mark Tushnet Hobson, The Great Chief Justice; and Smith, John Marshall, by Scott D. Gerber Howe, Bear Man of Admiralty Island, by Stephen Haycox Hurst, The Golden Rock, by John Ferling
J, K	[Top]
Jakle, Sculle, and Rogers, The Motel in America, by Andrew Hurley Jeffries, Wartime America, by Allan M. Winkler Jones and Rakestraw, Prologue to Manifest Destiny, by Eugene H. Berwanger Kandall, Substance and Shadow, by Thomas C. Mackey Kaufman, National Parks and the Woman's Voice, by Vera Norwood Kavanagh, Comanche Political History, by Willard Hughes Rollings Kerr, ed., Letters from China, by Noel H. Pugach Kessler, The Jiangyin Mission Station, by Eileen P. Scully Kington, Forgotten Summers, by Nancy K. Bristow Kirby, Richey, and Rowe, The Methodists, by E. Brooks Holifield Kraft, Stage to Studio, by Burton W. Peretti Krenn, The Chains of Interdependence, by Eric Paul Roorda
L	[Top]
Lancaster, The Department Store, by Susan Porter Benson Langley, The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850, by Neill Macaulay LaRossa, The Modernization of Fatherhood, by Peter N. Stearns Leighow, Nurses' Questions/Women's Questions, by Regina Morantz-Sanchez Licht, Industrializing America, by William H. Becker Littlefield, Seminole Burning, by Donald F. Lindsey Lofstrom, Paita, Outpost of Empire, by Eduardo Cavieres Lyons, New Left, New Right, and the Legacy of the Sixties, by Michael S. Foley
M, N	[Top]
Mahan, Benson J. Lossing and Historical Writing in the United States, 1830-1890, by Yasuo Endo Malavis, Bless the Pure & Humble, by Sarah S. Elkind Marquardt-Bigman, Amerikanische Geheimdienstanalysen über Deutschland, 1942-1949(American intelligence on Germany, 1942-1949), by Brigitte L. Nacos Mayer, Belonging to the Army, by Sherry L. Smith McGreevy, Parish Boundaries; Southern, John LaFarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism, 1911-1963; and Hecht, An Unordinary Man, by James T. Fisher Milanich, The Timucua, by James H. O'Donnell Milner, ed., A New Significance, by Michael Allen Mitchell, Westerns, by E. Anthony Rotundo Monod, Store Wars; and Bean, Beyond the Broker State, by Thomas K. McCraw Morris, Jimmy Carter, by Douglas Brinkley Moses, Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933,; Bird, ed., Dressing in Feathers; and Barker and Sabin, The Lasting of the Mohicans,by Alan Trachtenberg Mullin, Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination, by Colleen McDannell Murray, Eisenhower versus Montgomery, by Mark A. Stoler Murray, The Supermen, by Paul Ceruzzi Newton, ed., FDR and the Holocaust, by Aaron Berman Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas, by Leigh E. Schmidt Novak, The People's Welfare, by Audra Laverne Prewitt
O, P	[Top]
O'Leary, At Beck and Call, by Angela Miller Orsi, Thank You, St. Jude, by John T. McGreevy Ott, Fevered Lives, by Mary K. Matossian Painter, Sojourner Truth, by Waldo E. Martin Jr. Pernick, The Black Stork, by Edward J. Larson Pisani, Water, Land, and Law in the West, by James R. Kluger Porter, ed. by Amos and Senter, The Black Seminoles, by Kevin Mulroy
Q, R	[Top]
Radosh, Divided They Fell, by Gareth Davies Rappaport, Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, by Edwin J. Perkins Raskin, For the Hell of It, by Wini Breines Reinier, From Virtue to Character, by Ruth Wallis Herndon Riley, Building and Breaking Families in the American West, by Richard Chused Rosa, Wild Bill Hickok, by Joseph A. Stout Jr. Rousey, Policing the Southern City, by Robert C. Reinders Rudy, The Campus and a Nation in Crisis, by Melvin Small
S	[Top]
Salecker, Disaster on the Mississippi, by David A. Mindell Schwarz, Slave Laws in Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan Jr. Selvin, A Terrible Anger, by Steven C. Levi Shalhope, Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys, by David E. Narrett Shi, Di dui yu chong tu de yu lai (The origins of hostility and conflict), by Michael Sheng Siegel, Loans and Legitimacy, by Christine A. White Silverstein, Imbalance of Powers, by Scott A. Merriman Sioli, Contro i Padri Fondatori (Against the Founding Fathers), by Silvio A. Bedini Skurowski, A Model and a Warning, by Judith Sealander Somerville, The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Cultural Performance, by Thomas Augst Stegmaier, Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850, by Richard N. Ellis Stewart, "What Nature Suffers to Groe," by Susan E. O'Donovan Stock, Rural Radicals, by Sue Headlee Struna, People of Prowess, by Thomas L. Altherr Struve, Germans & Texans, by Andreas Reichstein
T	[Top]
Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers, by Randy Roberts Taniguchi, Necessary Fraud, by William Graebner Taylor and McBirney, eds., Peopling Indiana, by Elliott Robert Barkan Teaford, Post-Suburbia, by Leonard K. Eaton Townsend, Manhood at Harvard, by Gail Bederman Treckel, To Comfort the Heart, by Kathleen Brown Trigger and Washburn, eds., The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 1: North America, by Colin G. Calloway Turner, Echoes of Combat, by Michael A. Anderegg
U, V, W	[Top]
Unrau, White Man's Wicked Water, by Curtis M. Hinsley van Onselen, The Seed Is Mine, by John Mason Waechter, Die Erfindung des amerikanischen Westens (The invention of the American West), by Ronald J. Granieri Wenger, New York Jews and the Great Depression, by Arthur A. Goren Wert, Custer; and Barnett, Touched by Fire, by Jerome A. Greene West, The Politics of Revelation and Reason; and Kuehne, Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought, 1760-1790, by Mark A. Noll White, The Cuban Missile Crisis, by Keith Eubank Whitehorne, The Battle for Baltimore, 1814, by Paul David Nelson Wilford, The New York Intellectuals; and Teres, Renewing the Left, by Gregory D. Sumner Williams, 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, by Matthew Frye Jacobson Wolters, Right Turn, by Charles Henry
X, Y, Z	[Top]
Yu, OSS in China, by William M. Leary Zuczek, State of Rebellion, by Hans L. Trefousse