Book Reviews
March 2000, Vol. 86, 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 |

Acuña, Sometimes There Is No Other Side, by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr.

Alston and Ferrie, Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State, by Roger Biles

Arnesen, Greene, and Laurie, eds., Labor Histories; and Winslow, ed., Waterfront Workers,by Walter Licht

Avery, From Mission to Madness, by Norman H. Murdoch

Babits, A Devil of a Whipping; and Phillips, The Cousins' Wars, by Keith Mason

Baker and Reid, The New England Knight, by Stephen Saunders Webb

Baker, From Savage to Negro, by Vernon J. Williams Jr.

Bell and Bell, eds., Americanization and Australia, by Jeffery C. Livingston

Bentley, Eating for Victory, by Donna R. Gabaccia

Ben-Zvi, Decade of Transition, by Charles D. Smith

Berlin, Many Thousands Gone, by Steven Mintz

Best, Controlling Vice, by Mariana Valverde

Blackwelder, Now Hiring, by Claudia Clark

Blanchard, Oscar Wilde's America, by Gail Bederman

Blevins, Cattle in the Cotton Fields, by Nicolas Proctor

Boulard, Huey Long Invades New Orleans, by Michael L. Kurtz

Brenner, The Emperors of Chocolate, by Mary A. Yeager

Breunig, Die Amerkanische Revolution als Bürgerkrieg (The American Revolution as civil war), by Marvin L. Brown Jr.

Broussard, African-American Odyssey, by Lynn Hudson

Browne, ed., Refiguring American Film Genres, by William Paul

Burnham, Captivity & Sentiment, by Shirley Samuels

Bush and Scowcroft, A World Transformed, by Joel H. Rosenthal

Carrels, Uphill against Water, by Donald J. Pisani

Castile, To Show Heart, by Donald L. Fixico

Chai, Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy, by Christopher Grasso

Clanton, Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s; and Kolodny, Pursuing Majorities, by Mark Voss-Hubbard

Clark, New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789-1849, by Joanne D. Chaison

Clodfelter, The Dakota War; and Wakefield and Namias, eds., Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees, by Daniele Fiorentino

Collins, When the Church Bell Rang Racist, by David L. Chappell

Crass et al., eds., The Southern Colonial Backcountry, by Johanna Miller Lewis

Davis, A Clashing of the Soul, by Adam Fairclough

Decker, Made in America, by Pamela Walker Laird

Di Leonardo, Exotics at Home, by Julia E. Liss

Dietl, USA und Mittelamerika (The USA and Central America), by Joaquín Fermandois

Diouf, Servants of Allah, by Andrew F. Clark

Downs, Cornell '69, by Anthony M. Orum

Elkind, Bay Cities and Water Politics, by Ken Cruikshank

Ellis, ed., Speaking to the People, by David Zarefsky

Epp, The Rights Revolution; Dinan, Keeping the People's Liberties; and Kalman, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism, by Michael Les Benedict

Field, Harvest of Dissent, by R. Alton Lee

Finzsch and Martschukat, eds., Different Restorations, by Shearer Davis Bowman

Fixico, The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, by Brian C. Hosmer

Foley, The White Scourge, by Tomas Almaguer

Frank, Life with Father; McCall and Yacovone, eds., A Shared Experience; and Jabour, Marriage in the Early Republic, by C. Dallett Hemphill

Franklin et al., eds., African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century, by Leonard Dinnerstein

Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements, by Richard Schneirov

Galloway, ed., The Hernando de Soto Expedition, by Robert L. Gold

Gelfand, Trustee for a City, by James J. Connolly

González Patricio, Diplomacia contra diplomacia (Diplomacy against diplomacy), by Kenneth J. Grieb

Gribben, ed., The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America, by Matthew Frye Jacobson

Gyory, Closing the Gate, by Jonathan M. Chu

Hallwas, The Bootlegger, by James H. Madison

Halttunen, Murder Most Foul, by Hendrik Hartog

Harmon, Indians in the Making, by Jack Campisi

Harrell, When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln, by William Hanchett

Hartmann, The Other Feminists, by Susan Ware

Haynes, Divine Destiny, by Mark S. Schantz

Haynes, ed., Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era; and Stratton, Tempest over Teapot Dome, by Neil A. Wynn

Heidenfelder, From Duppel to Truman Plaza (From Duppel to Truman Plaza), by James F. Tent

Herbst, Reading Public Opinion, by J. Michael Hogan

Hoffschwelle, Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community, by William A. Link

Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood; and Nelson, National Manhood, by E. Anthony Rotundo

Hollandsworth, Pretense of Glory; and Newton, Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond, by John F. Marszalek

Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, by Michael A. Morrison

Hulsether, Building a Protestant Left, by Eugene McCarraher

Hurt, ed., The Rural South since World War II; and Tolnay, The Bottom Rung, by William F. Holmes

Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism; and Rhodes, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, by Carol Lasser

Katkin, Landsman, and Tyree, eds., Beyond Pluralism, by Ferdinando Fasce

Klingenstein, Enlarging America, by Emily Miller Budick

Kolmerten, The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, by Sylvia D. Hoffert

Korobkin, Criminal Conversations, by Michael Grossberg

Kort, The Columbia Guide to the Cold War, by Peter L. Hahn

Lazarus, Closed Chambers; and Atkinson, Leaving the Bench, by Randall W. Bland

Lewis, Transforming the Appalachian Countryside; and Thomas, An Appalachian New Deal, by Ronald D. Eller

Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line, by Michael K. Brown

Liebersohn, Aristocratic Encounters, by June Namias

Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810, by Beth Barton Schweiger

Müller, Politische Bildstrategien im amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahlkampf, 1828-1996 (Political image strategies in American presidential elections, 1828-1996), by Mel van Elteren

Macleod, The Age of the Child, by Ruth Wallis Herndon

Magat, Unlikely Partners, by Andrea Tone

Markowitz and Rosner, Children, Race, and Power, by Robert Coles

Marquis, In Armageddon's Shadow, by Eugene H. Berwanger

Mayer, Interpreting NAFTA, by David Koistinen

Mayers, Wars and Peace; and Brands, What America Owes the World, by Robert D. Schulzinger

McPherson and Cooper, eds., Writing the Civil War; Blair, Virginia's Private War; Davis, Lincoln's Men; and Alberts, The Battle of Glorieta, by J. Matthew Gallman

Medick-Krakau, Amerikanische Außenhandelspolitik im Wandel (Changing American Foreign trade policy), by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

Melnick, The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, vol. 1: "A Touch of Wildness"; and vol. 2: "This Dark and Desperate Age," by Susanne Klingenstein

Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord, by Patricia Galloway

Miller, The Voice of Business, by Alan R. Raucher

Morris, Too Soon, Too Late, by Christin J. Mamiya

O'Leary, To Die For, by Karal Ann Marling

Orlove, ed., The Allure of the Foreign, by Daphne Berdahl

Palmer and Ochoa, eds., The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, vol. 1: January 1814-March 1865, by James K. Hogue

Palmer, Organizing the Shipyards, by Roger Horowitz

Patterson, Butch Cassidy, by Michael A. Bellesiles

Payne, The Self and the Sacred, by Stephen Marini

Pegram, Battling Demon Rum; and Vyhnanek, Unorganized Crime, by Joel Best

Perlman, The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies, by George H. Roeder Jr.

Ponder, Managing the Press, by George Juergens

Posner, Killing the Dream, by Ralph E. Luker

Rabb, Jacobean Gentleman, by Richard Middleton

Reese, Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920, by Catherine J. Lavender

Rehnquist, All the Laws but One, by Mark E. Neely

Rhodes, Structures of the Jazz Age, by Linda Wagner-Martin

Richardson, The Ordeal of Robert Frost, by Jeff Gundy

Rogers, An Alternative Path, by Charlotte G. Borst

Rogow, A Fatal Friendship, by Simon P. Newman

Ronda, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, by Anne C. Rose

Roorda, The Dictator Next Door, by Stephen G. Rabe

Rose, A Mother's Job; and Michel, Children's Interests/Mothers' Right, by Jane Lewis

Rose, The Cold War Comes to Main Street, by Ellen Schrecker

Rostkowski, La conversion inachevée (The incomplete conversion), by Luca Codignola

Roux-Westers, Sur les traces de l'éléphant (On the trail of the elephant), by Jane Weiss

Samuel, ed. by Light, Alexander, and Jones, Theatres of Memory, vol. 2: Island Stories, by Kenneth Lunn

Sander, The Business of Charity, by Ruth Crocker

Saunders, In Search of Woodrow Wilson, by John Milton Cooper Jr.

Scheckel, The Insistence of the Indian, by Vine Deloria Jr.

Schmidt, The Political Discourse of Anarchy; Weart, Never at War; and Ostrower, The United Nations and the United States, by David S. Patterson

Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes, by Stephen J. Whitfield

Schreyer, Neue Politiker und Parteiströmungen im US-Kongreß New politicians and party trends in the U.S. Congress), by Brigitte L. Nacos

Seavoy, The American Peasantry, by Jack Temple Kirby

Sebok, Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence, by Herbert Hovenkamp

Skeen, Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812, by George W. Geib

Snead, The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War, by H. W. Brands

Starkey, European and Native American Warfare, 1675-1815, by Paul A. C. Koistinen

Steeples and Whitten, Democracy in Desperation, by Mark Wahlgren Summers

Stern, The Plight of Feeling, by Laura H. Korobkin

Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage, by Hal Rothman

Suárez Argüello, coord., Pragmatismo y principios (Pragmatism and principles); and Zoraida Vázquez, coord., México al tiempo de su guerra con Estados Unidos (1846-1848) (Mexico at the time of its war with the United States [1846-1848]), by David M. Pletcher

Tarr, Understanding State Constitutions, by John Dinan

Terrazas Basante, En busca de una nueva frontera (In search of a new frontier); Gayón Córdova, comp., La ocupación yanqui de la ciudad de México, 1847-1848 (The Yankee occupation of Mexico City, 1847-1848); and Frazier, ed., The United States and Mexico at War, by Andrés Reséndez

Thompson, John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty, by Michael P. Zuckert

Thornton, Handwriting in America, by Anne Ruggles Gere

Tise, The American Counterrevolution, by Gordon S. Wood

Trennert, White Man's Medicine, by W. David Baird

Triber, A True Republican, by John W. Tyler

Unger, Noah Webster, by Robert E. Shalhope

Van der Hoeven, Hoed af voor Marshall (Hats off to Marshall), by Marc Dierikx

Vollmar, Anaheim--Utopia Americana (Anaheim--Utopia Americana), by Gunther Barth

Watkins, On the Pill, by Janet Farrell Brodie

Weinstein and Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood, by James G. Ryan

West, Domesticating History; and Dubin, Displays of Power, by Michael Kammen

Williams, Rich Man's War, by Stephen V. Ash

Wilmeth and Bigsby, eds., The Cambridge History of American Theatre, vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870, by Kim Marra

Wittner, The Struggle against the Bomb, vol. 2: Resisting the Bomb, by Charles Chatfield

Woodard, A Nation within a Nation, by James Smethurst

Woods, Development Arrested, by Bryan D. Palmer

Woolverton, The Education of Phillips Brooks, by Daniel Walker Howe

Zenzen, Battling for Manassas; and Lowenthal, Possessed by the Past, by Barbie Zelizer

Zunz, Why the American Century?, by Lawrence B. Glickman