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Book Reviews June 1999, Vol. 86, No. 1
[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 \|
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Abbot, ed., The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series, vol. I: March-December 1797, by Gene A. Smith Ackerman, We the People, Vol. 2, by Kermit L. Hall Alexander, The Museum in America, by Christine Kleinegger Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers; and Gerald F. Linderman, The World within War, by Eric T. Dean Jr. Ambrose, Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South, by Susan-Mary Grant
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Baldassare, When Government Fails, by Sidney Plotkin Barnes, Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893, by George B. Tindall Bauman and Berkley Kalin, eds., The Quiet Voices; and Jack Salzman and Cornel West, eds., Struggles in the Promised Land, by Frederick M. Binder Beattie, The Scar That Binds, by Anne L. Foster Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity, by Michael Leja Belz, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era, by Roberta Sue Alexander Bleser, ed., Tokens of Affection; Christine Jacobson Carter, ed., The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848-1879; and Elizabeth R. Baer, ed., Shadows on My Heart, by Marli F. Weiner Boessenecker, Lawman, by Kenneth N. Owens Bogart, Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art; and Patricia Johnston, Real Fantasies, by Pamela Walker Laird Bogue, Frederick Jackson Turner, by Judith A. Allen Boone, Libidinal Currents, by David Van Leer Bracken, The Potlatch Papers, by Leland Donald Bredbenner, A Nationality of Her Own, by Norma Basch Bronner, Following Tradition; and Elliott J. Gorn, ed., The McGuffey Readers, by Karal Ann Marling Browder, Rousing the Nation, by Colette A. Hyman Brown and Elizabeth McKeown, The Poor Belong to Us; and Timothy A. Hasci, Second Home, by Susan L. Porter Bukowski, Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image, by Jon C. Teaford Bundy, A Tangled Web, by Melvin Small
C	[Top]
Castañeda, Compañero, trans. by Marina Castañeda, and Henry Butterfield Ryan, The Fall of Che Guevara, by Rafael Hernandez Juan Marinello Catanese, Women's History, by Nancy Page Fernandez Clarke, The Lineaments of Wrath, by Claire Potter Cooper, The American Marathon, by Murray Sperber Coryell et al., eds., Beyond Image and Convention, by Victoria E. Bynum Crisman and Cohn, When Horses Walked on Water, by Susan D. Jones Critchlow and Charles H. Parker, eds., With Us Always, by Susan Grigg
D	[Top]
Dallek, Flawed Giant, by Gil Troy Danky and Wiegand, eds., Print Culture in a Diverse America, by Leon Jackson Dingman, Ghost of War, by Timothy Maga DjeDje and Meadows, eds., California Soul, by Waldo E. Martin Jr. Donaldson, Abundance and Anxiety, and Doug Dowd, Blues for America, by Michael L. Kurtz Doyle, A Prisoner's Duty, by Frank L. Byrne DuBois, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, by Maurine W. Greenwald
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Eiler, Mobilizing America, by Benjamin L. Alpers Eisenberg, We'll Call You If We Need You, by Ileen A. DeVault Erdman Farrell, Yours in Sisterhood, by Carol Polsgrove Erdmans, Opposite Poles, by Dominic Pacyga Fenton, The Great Law and the Longhouse, by Olive Patricia Dickason Fink, Cutting into the Meatpacking Line, by Susan Porter Benson Francaviglia, From Sail to Steam, by Kevin J. Crisman Franklin and Franklin, eds., My Life and an Era, by Gregory Mixon Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis, by Greg Hise
G	[Top]
Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat, by Susan Levine García, Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932, by Abraham Hoffman García, The Making Of a Mexican American Mayor, by Rodolfo F. Acuña Gardner and Ted Gittinger, eds., Vietnam; and James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, My Lai, by Dennis Mills Garton, The Cost of War, by Robert J. McMahon Gilmore, Harry Partch, by John Dizikes Goldsmith, Other Powers, by Ann Braude Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks; and Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, by Winthrop D. Jordan Goode, The United States and Iran, by Fiona Venn Grant, Raising Baby by the Book, by Molly Ladd-Taylor Griffin and Grinde, Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy, by Laurence M. Hauptman Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828-1861, by Leonard L. Richards Gurstein, The Repeal of Reticence, by Jessica Weiss
H, I	[Top]
Haller, Kindly Medicine, by Michael G. Kenny Harlan, The Degradation of American History, by Casey N. Blake Harsh, Confederate Tide Rising; and Bruce Tap, Over Lincoln's Shoulder, by Daniel E. Sutherland Haydu, Making American Industry Safe for Democracy, by Christopher Tomlins Hays, Explorations in Environmental History, by John T. Cumbler Hillstrom and Hillstrom, The Vietnam Experience, by Sumiko Higashi Hunter, ed., Rethinking the Cold War; and Peter Trubowitz, Defining the National Interest, by Walter L. Hixson Huston, Securing the Fruits of Labor, by Lawrence B. Glickman Halberstam, The Children, by Stewart Burns
J, K	[Top]
Janssen, Vom Zarenreich in den amerikanischen Westen: Deutsche in Ruland und Rulanddeutsche in den USA (1871-1928 (From the czar's empire to the American West: Germans in Russia and Russian Germans in the USA [1871-1928]), by Frederik Ohles Johansen, ed., The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition, by Vine Deloria Jr. Juliani, Building Little Italy, by Salvatore J. LaGumina Kann, A Republic of Men, by Mary Beth Norton Kaufman, Cardozo, by Robert Jerome Glennon Keegan, Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order; and Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation, by Bill Nasson Kenny, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires, by David Montgomery Kenzer, Enterprising Southerners, by Juliet E. K. Walker
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Laas, Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century, by Megan McClintock Lampe, Frederick Douglass, by John Louis Lucaites Landsman, From Colonials to Provincials, by Jack P. Greene Lundin, Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief, by Martha Ackmann
M, N	[Top]
Magnaghi, Indian Slavery, Labor, Evangelization, and Captivity in the Americas, by Michael C. Coleman McCay, Oyster Wars and The Public Trust, by John R. Wennersten McCormick and McCormick, New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier, by Tamara G. Miller McCullagh, The Truth of History, by Wilfred M. McClay McKnight, The Last Crusade, by Adam Fairclough McNamara, Political Economy and Statesmanship;and John Steele Gordon, Hamilton's Blessing, by Cathy Matson Mehrling, The Money Interest and the Public Interest, by Elmus Wicker Melish, Disowning Slavery, by Walter Johnson Melton, The First Impeachment, by R. B. Bernstein Mergen, Snow in America, by Frieda Knobloch Mettler, Dividing Citizens, by Cynthia Harrison Miner, Harvesting the High Plains, by Charles Coate Morris, El Llano Estacado, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa Morrissey, Mental Territories, by Steven Hoelscher Murray, ed., To Do Good to My Indian Brethren, by J. R. Miller Nelson, Who Speaks for the President? The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton, and Timothy Walch, ed., At the President's Side, by Robert Maranto
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Ohrt, Defiant Peacemaker, by Ana R. Suárez Olwell, Masters, Slaves, & Subjects, by Christopher Morris Osburn, Southern Ute Women, by Clara Sue Kidwell Parr, A Will of Her Own, by Elizabeth York Enstam Parrish, Frank Blair, by Hans L. Trefousse Peiss, Hope in a Jar, by Angel Kwolek-Folland Perkins, Border Life, by Brendan McConville Perlmutter, Making the World Safe for Democracy, by David Steigerwald Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment, by Joyce S. Goldberg Pommerin and Frölich, eds., Quellen zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, 1917-1963 (Documents on German-American relations, 1917-1963), by Manfred Jonas Porterfield, Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries, by Susan M. Yohn Prince, Wetlands of the American Midwest, by Michael C. Steiner Pugach, Same Bed, Different Dreams, by David K. Linnan
Q, R	[Top]
Rajala, Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest, by Char Miller Ratner, Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants; and David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Old Hickory's War, by Lawrence Frederick Kohl Reese, ed., Hoosier Schools, by Carol K. Coburn Reti, Silver and Gold, by Alfred E. Eckes Rollins and John E. O'Connor, eds., Hollywood's Indian, by R. David Edmunds Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers Jr., The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, vol. 1: 1514-1861, and James Everett Kibler, Our Fathers' Fields, by Laylon Wayne Jordan
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Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks, by Robin W. Winks Serber and Crease, Peace & War; and Stewart L. Udall, The Myths of August, by Lawrence S. Wittner Simon, A Fabric of Defeat, by Robert H. Zieger Sorley, Honorable Warrior, by William Head Spinney, World War II in Nashville, by James A. Burran Steedman, Angels of the Workplace, by Eileen Boris Stid, The President as Statesman, by Michal R. Belknap Stolberg, Bridging the River of Hatred; and Dennis C. Dickerson, Militant Mediator, by Richard J. Meister Strong, The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island From Earliest Times to 1700, by Daniel R. Mandell Suro, Strangers among Us, by Neil Foley Swift, Religion and the American Experience; Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart, eds., New Directions in American Religious History; and Walter H. Conser Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss, eds., Religious Diversity and American Religious History, by Alexis McCrossen
T	[Top]
Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War, by Richard Meixsel Tanner, Doc Holliday, by Richard Hogan Terborg-Penn, African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920, by Jane Rhodes Theoharis, ed., A Culture of Secrecy, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Traxel, 1898, by Alan Trachtenberg Trotter, River Jordan, by Kenneth L. Kusmer
U, V, W	[Top]
Ueyama andSakata, eds., Tariritsu to dakyo (Conflicts and compromises), by Fred Dickinson Von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns, by Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven Walker, The History of Black Business in America, by John N. Ingham Wallach, Exhibiting Contradiction, by Victoria Alexander Warner, Against the Spirit of System, by Howard I. Kushner Waugh, Unsentimental Reformer, by Julia Grant Welch, The Book of Nature, by Wayne Franklin West, The Contested Plains, by William H. Goetzmann West, William Styron, a Life, by Richard Gray Whitnah, U.S. Department of Transportation, by Bruce E. Seely Wickberg, The Senses of Humor, by Peter N. Stearns Wigger, Taking Heaven by Storm, by E. Brooks Holifield Wilson, Honor's Voice, by Allen C. Guelzo Wilson, United Irishmen, United States, by Martin J. Burke Wong and Chan, eds., Claiming America, by Xiaolan Bao
X, Y, Z	[Top]
Zunz, Why the American Century?, by Lawrence B. Glickman