The Journal of American History
Issues

List of Issues

Web site Reviews

Subscribe to the JAH


Search the JAH at the
History Cooperative


Book Reviews
December 1999, Vol. 86, 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]

Adickes, To Be Young Was Very Heaven, by Suzanne Wasserman

Allen, The Invention of the White Race, vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America, by Marvin L. Michael Kay

Alterman, Who Speaks for America?, by Joseph M. Siracusa

Anderson, All-American Anarchist, by Stanley Shapiro

Anderson, Bayard Rustin, by Gerald C. Horne

B [Top]

Bernardi, Star Trek and History, by Daniel J. Leab

Bill, George Ball, by David L. Anderson

Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims, by Susan Juster

Brigham, Empowering the West, by David E. Nye

Burton, Taft, Holmes, and the 1920s Court; and Semonche, Keeping the Faith, by Melvin I. Urofsky

Butler, Cautious Visionary, by Thomas W. Zeiler

C [Top]

Campbell, Short of the Glory, by Lewis L. Gould

Carby, Race Men, by Julia E. Liss

Carlson, The Plains Indians, by Loretta Fowler

Christman, Target Hiroshima, by J. Samuel Walker

Clark, The Meetinghouse Tragedy, by Randolph Roth

Collins, Warpath and Cattle Trail, ed. Savage and Lazalier; and Haywood, The Merchant Prince of Dodge City, by Peter Iverson

Conn, Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926, by Christopher Clarke-Hazlett

Conway, When Memory Speaks, by Joyce Antler

D [Top]

Davidann, A World of Crisis and Progress, by Roberta Wollons

Davies, Main Street Blues, by John E. Hallwas

Davis, Dark Side of Fortune, by Richard Harris

Davis, Frontier Illinois, by Andrew R. L. Cayton

E, F [Top]

Elazar, Covenant & Constitutionalism, by John Brigham

Elphick and Davenport, eds., Christianity in South Africa, by Barbara Bair

Escoffier, American Homo; and McGarry and Wasserman, Becoming Visible, by John Howard

Faber, Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade; and Friedman, Jews and the American Slave Trade,by Joseph C. Miller

Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, by David E. Hamilton

Field, The Crisis of the Standing Order, by Jonathan D. Sassi

Fink and Graham, eds., The Carter Presidency; and Hargrove, The President as Leader, by John Dumbrell

Fitzmier, New England's Moral Legislator, by Bradley J. Longfield

Frank, The Conquest of Cool, by Ian Gordon

Fried, The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire, by Warren J. Samuels

Friedland, Lift Up Your Voice like a Trumpet, by Mark Hulsether

G [Top]

Goodman, Of One Blood, by Bruce Levine

Gordon, Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945, by Mary W. Blanchard

Grafton, The Footnote, by Pamela H. Smith

H, I [Top]

Hahn, Umerziehung durch Dokumentarfilm? (Reeducation through documentary film?), by Klaus Larres

Hammack, ed., Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States; and Durden, Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas, by Judith Sealander

Hart, Forged Consensus; and Wang, American Science in an Age of Anxiety, by Daniel Lee Kleinman

Heffer, Les Etats-Unis et le Pacifique (The United States and the Pacific), by David A. Chappell

Hendricks, Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest, by Joan Marie Johnson

Hogan, A Cross of Iron, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique, by Nancy Gabin

Horwitz, Hog Ties, by Steven Stoll

Hyman, Craftsmanship and Character, by Wayne K. Hobson

Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, by Nancy F. Cott

J, K [Top]

Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color; and Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, by David W. Stowe

Jenkins, Seizing the New Day; and Cecelski and Tyson, eds., Democracy Betrayed, by Gail Williams O'Brien

Joseph, LeGrand, and Salvatore, eds., Close Encounters of Empire, by Lorenzo Delgado

Kantor, Politics and Property Rights, by Jonathan M. Bryant

Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies, by Candice Bredbenner

Kierner, Beyond the Household; and Gillespie and Clinton, eds., Taking Off the White Gloves, by Christie Anne Farnham

Kloppenberg, The Virtues of Liberalism, by Joyce Appleby

Kochavi, Prelude to Nuremberg, by Henry L. Feingold

Kohn, We Had a Dream, by Martha Hodes

Krakau, ed., The American Nation, National Identity, Nationalism, by Robert Bonner

L [Top]

Laird, Advertising Progress, by Daniel Horowitz

Lakoff, Max Lerner, by Paul V. Murphy

Lewis, The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood, by Frank Lawrence Owsley Jr.

Long, The Revival of 1857-58, by Anne M. Boylan

Lynch, Selling Catholicism, by Eileen McMahon

M, N [Top]

Marshall, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century, by T. H. Breen

Marwick, The Sixties, by Van Gosse

McClellan, The Sunday Game; and Riess, ed., Sports and the American Jew, by Lawrence E. Ziewacz

Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, by Jeanette M. Toohey

Miller, An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, by Joseph Siry

Miller, Invested with Meaning, by William H. Sherman

Mizruchi, The Science of Sacrifice, by John Pettegrew

Moynihan, Secrecy; and Johnson, Secret Agencies, by Jonathan Marshall

Murphy, Kondrashev, and Bailey, Battleground Berlin, by Manfred Berg

Naremore, More Than Night, by Nancy West

Nichols, Indians in the United States and Canada, by Thomas S. Abler

Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America, by David J. Depew

Nutt, The Whole Gospel for the Whole World, by Jill K. Gill

O, P [Top]

O'Brien, Workers' Paradox, by Howell John Harris

Palley, Plenty of Nothing; and Barker and Christensen, eds., Contingent Work, by Judith Stein

Parker, The Kingdom of Character, by Jacob H. Dorn

Persson, Great Britain, the United States, and the Security of the Middle East, by Nur Bilge Criss

Posnock, Color & Culture, by Kevin Mumford

Q, R [Top]

Randall, George Washington, by John Ferling

Reis, Damned Women, by Ruth Bloch

Rhodehamel and Taper, eds., 'Right or Wrong, God Judge Me'; and Goodrich, War to the Knife, by Robert E. McGlone

Rockaway, Words of the Uprooted; and Green, ed., Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora, by Gerald Sorin

Rothman, Devil's Bargains, by Susan G. Davis

S [Top]

Sanders, The Private Death of Public Discourse, by Christopher Phelps

Schudson, The Good Citizen, by Thomas C. Leonard

Schuparra, Triumph of the Right, by Mary C. Brennan

Seelye, Memory's Nation, by Jim Cullen

Shepherd and Shepherd, Mormon Passage; and Walker, Wayward Saints, by Mario S. De Pillis

Silverberg, ed., Gender and American Social Science, by Margo Anderson

Sitton and Conrad, Nameless Towns, by Steven A. Reich

Speel, Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States, by Stefano Luconi

Stebbins, All the News Is Fit to Print, by Sally F. Griffith

Sutton, Journeymen for Jesus, by David A. Zonderman

T [Top]

Tomes, Apocalypse Then, by Juan José Cruz

Tucker, Mugwumps, by Brooks D. Simpson

U, V, W [Top]

Usner, American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley, by Joel W. Martin

Walsh, Midnight Dreary, by Ed Hatton

Weisenburger, Modern Medea, by Peter W. Bardaglio

White, ed., Kennedy; and Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World, by Timothy Maga

Williams, Thurgood Marshall; and Roche, Restructured Resistance, by Leland Ware

Woeste, The Farmer's Benevolent Trust, by Catherine McNicol Stock

Wuthnow, After Heaven, by Peter W. Williams

X, Y, Z [Top]

Zuckerman, A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995, by Leigh Ann Wheeler