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Book Reviews December 1998, Vol. 85, No. 3
[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]
Albright and Kunstel, Bombshell; Richelson, A Century of Spies; and Mackenzie, Secrets, by Nick Cullather Andrews, ed., The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader, by Jeffrey B. Ferguson Aronsen, American National Security and Economic Relations with Canada, 1945-1954, by Graeme S. Mount
B	[Top]
Baker, The Second Battle of New Orleans, by Vanessa Siddle Walker Becker, Nancy Lancaster, by Melissa A. McEuen Benfey, Degas in New Orleans, by Peter Gibian Bethel, The Roots of African-American Identity, by Roy E. Finkenbine Bigham, Towns & Villages of the Lower Ohio, by Kim M. Gruenwald Binder, Minority Rights, Majority Rule, by Donald B. Cole Bird and Lifichultz, eds., Hiroshima's Shadow, by Michael J. Hogan Boomhower, Jacob Piatt Dunn Jr., by James B. Lane Bower, ed., Recipes for Reading, by Rafia Zafar Branch, Pillar of Fire, by William H. Chafe Britten, American Indians in World War I, by Alison R. Bernstein Brown, Ossian Bingley Hart, by James B. Crooks Broz, The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System, by Wyatt Wells Bryant, Victims and Heroes, by Wilson J. Moses Buderi, The Invention That Changed the World, by Alex Roland
C	[Top]
Catton, Inhabited Wilderness, by Morgan Sherwood Chen, "The Sex Side of Life," by Mary E. Odern Conkin, American Originals, by Randall Balmer Connor, Civil War Boston, by Debra Gold Hansen Contosta, Philadelphia's Progressive Orphanage, by Joseph M. Hawes Cottrell, The Social Gospel of E. Nicholas Comfort, by Jacob H. Dorn
D	[Top]
Davis, Spectacular Nature, by Marguerite S. Shaffer DeVeaux, The Birth of Bebop, by Iain Anderson Dorn, Creating the Dropout, by William Cutler Duffy, Nuclear Politics in America, by Daniel Pope Dupre, Transforming the Cotton Frontier, by Don H. Doyle
E, F	[Top]
Early, A World without War, by Lois Rudnick Edwards, Angels in the Machinery, by Ellen Carol DuBois Eisenhower, Agent of Destiny, by William B. Skelton Ellis, Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique, by Mark Wahlgren Summers Eskew, But for Birmingham; and Riches, The Civil Rights Movement, by Clayborne Carson Essah, A House Divided, by Marion B. Lucas Essin, Shavetails and Bell Sharps, by I. B. Holley Jr. Eue, Die Oregon-Frage (The Oregon question), by Janet M. Manson Fass, Kidnapped, by Michael Grossberg Flink, Sentinel under Siege, by Theodore L. Glasser Foster, "New Raiments of Self," by Spencer Crew Fredrickson, The Comparative Imagination, by Vivian Bickford-Smith
G	[Top]
Galambos and Sewell, Networks of Innovation, by David B. Sicilia Garceau, The Important Things of Life, by Susan E. Gray Geisst, Wall Street, by Richard R. John Getz, Schools of Their Own, by Richard Griswold del Castillo Gilbert, Redeeming Culture, by James T. Kloppenberg Gough, Farming the Cutover, by Sue Headlee Gough, First across the Continent, by Gary E. Moulton Gronowicz, Race and Class Politics in New York City before the Civil War, by Howard B. Rock Gundersen, To Be Useful to the World, by Jean R. Soderlund
H, I	[Top]
Haarsager, Organized Womanhood, by Polly Welts Kaufman Haddad and Smith, eds., Muslim Communities in North America, by Claude A. Clegg Haiken, Venus Envy, by Kathy Peiss Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor, by Thomas J. Jablonsky Hardin, Fifty Years of Segregation, by Russell W. Irvine Harzig, Mageean, Matovic, Knothe, and Blaschke, ed. by Harzig, Peasant Maids--City Women, by Suzanne Sinke Hayman, The Smart Culture, by Mary Frances Berry Hearn, When the Devil Came Down to Dixie, by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. Heinrich, Ships for the Seven Seas, by Paul A. Gilje Henriksen, Dr. Strangelove'a America, by J. Samuel Walker Hirschhorn, Democracy Reformed, by Robert W. Cherny Hobbs, "I Sing for I Cannot Be Silent," by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth Hoffman, Sobel, and Teute, eds., Through a Glass Darkly, by Jill Lepore Hyde, ed., Plain Folk of the South Revisited, by Steven A. Reich
J, K	[Top]
Johnson, The Struggle for Student Rights, by Mark A. Graber Kammen, In the Past Lane, by Edward T. Linenthal Kazin, God & the American Writer, by David S. Reynolds Keefer, Sampson, and Smith, eds., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961- 1963, Vol. 11: Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, by Timothy Naftali Kimball, Forged in War, by Fraser J. Harbutt Kniss, Disquiet in the Land, by Jeff Gundy Krajcinovic, From Company Doctors to Managed Care, by Richard J. Jensen Kuhlman, Petticoats and White Feathers, by Linda Schott
L	[Top]
Labaree, How to Succeed in School without Really Learning, by Jurgen Herbst LaCerra, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Tammany Hall of New York, by John M. Allswang Larres and Oppelland, eds., Deutschland und die USA in 20. Jahrhundert (Germany and the USA in the 20th century), by Angela Schwarz Launius and McCurdy, eds., Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership, by Andreas Reichstein Lemon, Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits, by David Quigley Letwin, The Challenge of Interracial Unionism, by Rick Halpern Lumsden, Rampant Women, by Cynthia Farr Brown
M, N	[Top]
Mackay, Allan Pinkerton, by Stephen H. Norwood Maltby, The Origins and Early Development of Professional Football, by George B. Kirsch Manfredi, The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice, by Jack M. Holl Martin and Garrison, eds., American Material Culture, by Shirley Teresa Wajda Mauk, The Colony That Rose from the Sea, by Ann M. Legreid McCartin, Labor's Great War; and Tone, The Business of Benevolence, by Richard A. Greenwald McNamara, Day of Jubilee; and Travers, Celebrating the Fourth, by Frank Cogliano Michalek, Mocarstwo (Superpower), by Mary E. Cygan Miller and Rothman, eds., Out of the Woods, by Richard W. Judd Miranda, A History of Hispanics in Southern Nevada, by David A. Sandoval Moon, Sex among Allies, by Leisa D. Meyer Morris, Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes, by Richard E. Meyer Mumford, Interzones, by Barry D. Adam Munk, The Devil's Mousetrap, by Richard Godbeer Mushkat and Rayback, Martin Van Buren; and Marszalek, The Petticoat Affair, by Elizabeth R. Varon Nagel, John Quincy Adams, by Mary W. M. Hargreaves Nash, The Other Missiles of October, by Burcu Bostanoglu Nye, Consuming Power, by Rudi Vold
O, P	[Top]
O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees, by Daniel K. Richter O'Leary, Maine Sea Fisheries, by William M. Fowler Jr. Panish, The Color of Jazz, by Herman Gray Panzer, Mathew Brady and the Image of History, by Debby Applegate Phillips, Indians and Indian Agents, by Kenneth N. Owens Piott, Holy Joe, by Philip R. VanderMeer Piper, Ideologies and Institutions, by M. J. Heale Poesch and Bacot, eds., Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940, by Carl Lounsbury Poling-Kempes, Valley of Shining Stone, by Richard N. Ellis Pycior, LBJ & Mexican Americans, by Edward J. Escobar
Q, R	[Top]
Rabban, Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, by Margaret A. Blanchard Reed, The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966, by Walter T. Howard Reed, W. E. B. DuBois and American Political Thought, by Keith Byerman Robbins, Landscapes of Promise, by Robert Bunting Romero, Home Fronts, by Louise L. Stevenson Romines, Constructing the Little House, by Carol Fairbanks Ross, Working-Class Hollywood, by Milton Cantor Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows, by Camille Guerin-Gonzales Rupp, Worlds of Women, by Susan Ware Russell, People and the Land through Time, by Philip G. Terrie
S	[Top]
Samuel, Pledging Allegiance, by Clayton Koppes Schaller, Altered States, by Takeshi lgarashi Schwalm, A Hard Fight for We, by Thavolia Glymph Sernett, Bound for the Promised Land, by Robert Gregg Shimada, Nikkei Amerikajin no Taiheiyo senso (Japanese Americans during the Pacific war), by John J. Stephan Sigerman, Land of Many Hands, by Anne M. Butler Simmons, Massacre on the Lordsburg Road, by Joseph A. Stout Jr. Sitton and Utley, From Can See to Can't, by David Vaught Smith, Civic Ideals, by Stuart McConnell Startup, The Root of All Evil, by John B. Boles Streitmatter, Unspeakable, by Marguerite Moritz Svonkin, Jews against Prejudice, by Hasia R. Diner
T	[Top]
Taylor, Knocking at Our Own Door, by Raymond Wolters Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger, by Ronald L. Davis Tomblin, G. I. Nightingales, by Janann Sherman Topping, Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country, by Thomas G. Alexander Trafzer, Death Stalks the Yakama, by Larry Burt Tweed, Our Lady of the Exile, by Maria Cristina Garcia
U, V, W	[Top]
Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, by Gar Alperovitz Wang, The Trial of Democracy, and Cimbala, Under the Guardianship of the Nation, by Jane Dailey Warren, The Hunter's Game, by Mark Harvey Watts, The Magic Kingdom, by Michael Kammen Webb, Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South, by Michael Perman West, Vindicating the Founders, by Lawrence W. Levine Wilkins, American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court, by Sidney L. Harting Wrobel and Steiner, eds., Many Wests, by Gunther Barth
X, Y, Z	[Top]
Young, Galveston and the Great West, by Sarah S. Elkind Youst, She's Tricky Like Coyote, by Lisa E. Emmerich Zhu, A Chinaman's Chance, by Franklin Ng Zieger, ed., Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995, by Larry J. Griffin