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Book Reviews
March 1999, Vol. 85, No. 4

[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]

Adams and McMurry, eds., Exploring Everyday Landscapes, by J. Ritchie Garrison

Allin, Cold War Illusions, by Randall Bennett Woods

Allison, American Diplomats in Russia, by Frederick F. Travis

Anderson, ed., Facing My Lai, by Richard A. Hunt

Anyon, Ghetto Schooling, by James W. Fraser

Appier, Policing Women, by Dorothy Sue Cobble

Aron, Licensed to Kill?, by Philip L. Cantelon

Ashton, Rebecca Gratz, by Maxine S. Seller

B [Top]

Barrow, A Passion for Birds, by Charlotte M. Porter

Berthoff, Republic of the Dispossessed, by Daniel T. Rodgers

Blanck, Becoming Swedish-American, by Odd S. Lovoll

Bonner, Alas! What Brought Thee Hither?, by Renqiu Yu

Bonomi, The Lord Cornbury Scandal, by Ruth H. Bloch

Bowie and Immerman, Waging Peace, by Stephen G. Rabe

Brewer, To Win the Peace, by Gregory D. Black

Brinkley, Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Howard Brick

Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse; and Johnson, The Frontier in the Colonial South, by Emory G. Evans

Buhle, Feminism and Its Discontents, by Ellen Herman

Burley, Servants of the Honourable Company, by Douglas McCalla

C [Top]

Campbell, Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880, by James Marten

Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America, by Jon Butler

Caudill, Darwinian Myths, by David J. Depew

Chandler, Amatori, and Hikino, eds., Big Business and the Wealth of Nations, by Howell John Harris

Clinton, God and Man in the Law, by Robert A. Manzer

Cohen, ed., The Female Marine and Related Works, by Amy Gilman Srebnick

Collier-Thomas, Daughters of Thunder, by Barbara Bair

Conard, Places of Quiet Beauty, by William R. Lowry

Cooper, The Rise of the National Guard, by George W. Geib

Cushman, Rethinking the New Deal Court, by James C. Duram

D [Top]

Dary, Red Blood & Black Ink, by Lewis O. Saum

Dick, City of Dreams, by Steven J. Ross

Dixon, Perfecting the Family, by Shirley J. Yee

Dobratz and Shanks-Meile, "White Power, White Pride!,"  by David Chalmers

Dorman, A Word for Nature, by G. Thomas Edwards

Downs, The Golden Ghetto, by Arthur Power Dudden

Drachman, Sisters in Law, by Richard Chused

E, F [Top]

Ellis, The Dark Side of the Left, by Wini Breines

Erenberg, Swingin the Dream, by Burton W. Peretti

Estes and Smith, eds., A Melancholy Scene of Devastation, by Helena M. Wall

Farnham, ed., Women of the American South, by Diane Miller Sommerville

Fiset, Imprisoned Apart; and Mansel G. Blackford, On Board the USS Mason, by William Toll

Fisher, War at Every Door, by Kevin C. Ruffner

G [Top]

Gambone, Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953-1961, by W. Michael Weis

Gehlen, Das amerikanische Sozialnetz im Umbruch (The American social safety net in time of change), by Daniel Levine

Gere, Intimate Practices, by Tamara Plakins Thornton

Glazier and Shelley, eds., The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History, by James J.Divita

Goldstein, Burning the Flag; and Goldstein, ed., Desecrating the American Flag, by Charles H. McCormick

Goossen, Women against the Good War; and Molly Merryman, Clipped Wings, by Judy Barrett Litoff

Greenberg, ed., A Circle of Trust, by David J. Garrow

Guthrie, Keepers of the Spirits, by Pamela Pennock

Gutiérrez and Orsi, eds., Contested Eden; and Schwartz, From West to East, by Richard Griswold del Castillo

H, I [Top]

Hales, Atomic Spaces, by R. Hal Williams

Hamilton, When Im Bad, Im Better, by Andrea Friedman

Hase and Lehmkuhl, eds., Enemy Images in American History, by Robert P. Newman

Haskell, Objectivity Is Not Neutrality, by David A. Hollinger

Hatfield, Chasing Shadows, by Peter Iverson

Higham, ed., Civil Rights and Social Wrongs, by Michael Omi

Hobsbawm, On History; and Nash, Crabtree, and Dunn, History on Trial, by Patricia Nelson Limerick

Hoffman, All You Need Is Love, by Jonathan Zimmerman

Hoffman, Our Elusive Constitution, by Charles A. Lofgren

Hogan, Selling em by the Sack, by Andrew Hurley

Hull, Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn, by John Henry Schlegel

Hurt, Nathan Boone and the American Frontier, by Nicole Etcheson

J, K [Top]

Jenkins, The Character of God, by Paul Gutjahr

Kelley, Yo Mamas Disfunktional!, by Michael B. Katz

Kelly, Mystery Fiction and Modern Life, by John G. Cawelti

Kilpatrick, The Night Has a Naked Soul, by Joel W. Martin

Klehr, Haynes, and Anderson, The Soviet World of American Communism, by Ellen Schrecker

Koistinen, Mobilizing for Modern War, by William J. Breen

Kornweibel, Seeing Red, by Jeffrey B. Perry

Kuehl and Dunn, Keeping the Covenant, by Charles Chatfield

L [Top]

Ladd-Taylor and Umansky, eds., "Bad" Mothers, by Barbara Melosh

Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, by Marc Egnal

Larsen and Hulston, Pendergast!, by Roger W. Lotchin

Launius, Alexander William Doniphan, by Lawrence O. Christensen

Laurie and Cole, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders 1877-1945, by Wilbur R. Miller

Leff, Hemingway and His Conspirators, by Richard Fine

Lepore, The Name of War, by Patricia E. Rubertone

Lhamon, Raising Cain, by Thomas Cripps

Lincecum, Phillips, and Redshaw, eds., Science on the Texas Frontier, by Ronald Rainger

Lipsitz, Dangerous Crossroads, by Bryan D. Palmer

Longstreth, City Center to Regional Mall, by Roger Montgomery

M, N [Top]

Maga, Hands across the Sea?, by Michael Schaller

Marable, Black Leadership, by Robert L. Harris Jr.

Masud-Piloto, From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants, by Beatrice Rodriguez Owsley

Matson, Merchants & Empire, by Russell E. Menard

Mattson, Creating a Democratic Public, by Peter McCaffery

Mayo, The American Country Club, by Janet E. Schulte

McAllister, Revolt against Modernity, by Ronald Lora

McCormick, Seeing Reds, by Robert Justin Goldstein

McCurdy, Space and the American Imagination, by Walter A. cDougall

McDowell and Noble, eds., Reason and Republicanism, by Marion Rust

Mershon and Schlossman, Foxholes & Color Lines, by Michael C. C. Adams

Miller and Tucker, Changing Plans for Americas Inner Cities, by Max Page

Moneyhon, Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929, by Tom W. Dillard

Morgan, Visual Piety, by Patricia Johnston

Moyar, Phoenix and the Birds of Prey, by John Prados

Moyer, Joseph Henry, by Curtis M. Hinsley

Myerson, ed., The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson; and Cole, Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism, by Peter S. Field

Nelson, War of the Black Heavens, by James Schwoch

Nye, Bad Medicine & Good, by Christopher L. Miller

Nye, Narratives and Spaces, by Kathryn J. Oberdeck

O, P [Top]

Ogle, All the Modern Conveniences, by Howard Rosen

Owen, The Sacred Flame of Love, by Milton C. Sernett

Parker, Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia, by John M. Bumsted

Paz, Strategy, Security, and Spies, by W. Dirk Raat

Petroski, Remaking the World, by Robert C. Post

Phelps, Young Sidney Hook, by Judy Kutulas

Potter, War on Crime, by David E. Ruth

Power, Lee's Miserables, by Stephen V. Ash

Q, R [Top]

Quack, Zuflucht Amerika (Refuge America), by Abraham J. Peck

Rollins and OConnor, eds., Hollywoods World War I, by Leslie Midkiff DeBauche

Roper, ed., C. Vann Woodward, by Richard H. King

Rothman, Beginnings Count, by Thomas R. Oliver

Rountree and Davidson, Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, by J. Frederick Fausz

S [Top]

Sarna, ed., Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream, by Stephen J. Stein

Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves, by David W. Blight

Schrijvers, The Crash of Ruin, by Paul Fussell

Schwartz, Pleasure Island, by Artimus Keiffer

Sellars, Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies, by Philip Mellinger

Sellers, Hazards of the Job; and Aldrich, Safety First, by Alan M. Kraut

Sheng, Battling Western Imperialism, by David Mayers

Shor, Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, 1888-1918, by Elliott Shore

Sidbury, Ploughshares into Swords, by Daniel C. Littlefield

Sims, The Power of Femininity in the New South, by Rebecca Edwards

Skemp, Judith Sargent Murray, by Patricia Cleary

Staloff, The Making of an American Thinking Class; and Hall, Separating Church and State, by Jane Kamensky

Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride, by Martin Ridge

Stearns and Lewis, eds., An Emotional History of the United States, by E. Anthony Rotundo

Stebner, The Women of Hull House, by Susan Curtis

Stone, On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism, by Anne C. Loveland

Sugden, Tecumseh, by Susan Sleeper-Smith

T [Top]

Trotter and Smith, eds., African Americans in Pennsylvania, by Ena L. Farley

Turner, Women, Culture, and Community, by Joan Marie Johnson

U, V, W [Top]

Varon, We Mean to Be Counted, by Jean Harvey Baker

Vecsey, The Paths of Kateris Kin, by Carol Green-Devens

Veith, Code Name Bright Light, by Robert C. Doyle

Walsh, From Calabar to Carter's Grove, by Sylvia R. Frey

Walton, African American Power and Politics, by Hugh Davis Graham

Warren, Theologians of a New World Order, by Jon Diefenthaler

Weems, Desegregating the Dollar, by George Lipsitz

Weiner, Mistresses and Slaves, by Cynthia A. Kierner

Wrenn, Crisis and Commission Government in Memphis; and Kahn, Budgeting Democracy, by Thomas R. Pegram

Wright, Congregational Polity, by Charles D. Cashdollar

X, Y, Z [Top]

Young, Senator James Murray Mason, by James Tice Moore

Young, The Ute Indians of Colorado in the Twentieth Century, by Donald L. Fixico

Zafar, We Wear the Mask, by Donald B. Gibson