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Book Reviews September 2000, Vol. 87, No. 2
[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]
Abbott, Political Terrain, by Sam Bass Warner Jr. Ahlquist, Democracy at the Opera, by Rosemarie K. Bank Alexander, Commodity & Propriety, by William J. Novak Argersinger, Making the Amalgamated, by Mercedes Steedman
B	[Top]
Béziat, Franklin Roosevelt et la France, 1939-1945 (Franklin Roosevelt and France, 1939-1945), by Arthur L. Funk Barclay and Glaser-Schmidt, eds., Transatlantic Images and Perceptions, by James M. Bergquist Becker, Selling Tradition, by Henry D. Shapiro Ben-Atar and Oberg, eds., Federalists Reconsidered; and Kennon, ed., A Republic for the Ages, by William C. Dowling Bernhard, Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, by María del Carmen Barcia Bernhard, U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960, by James Schwoch Berry, The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice, by Norma Basch Black, Maps and Politics, by James R. Ackerman Bolkhovitinov, ed., Istoriia russkoi Ameriki, 1732-1867 (History of Russian America, 1732-1867), vol. 1: Osnovanie russkoi Ameriki, 1732-1799 (The founding of Russian America, 1732-1799), by Norman E. Saul Boxer, When Women Ask the Questions, by Mary Ann Dzuback Boyer, Fallout, by R. Lane Fenrich Brodkin, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America, by Hasia R. Diner Brown, Race, Money, and the American Welfare State, by Julian Zelizer Buel, In Irons, by Cathy Matson Buzzanco, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life, by Mary Hershberger
C	[Top]
Caron, Thomas Paine contre l'imposture des prêtres (Thomas Paine against the fallacyof the priests), by A. Owen Aldridge Carp, Family Matters, by Sonya Michel Cavallo, A Fiction of the Past; and Miller, The Seventies Now, by Howard Brick Chudacoff, The Age of the Bachelor, by Scott A. Sandage Cogley, John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson Cohen, Israel and the Bomb, by S. Ilan Troen Corey, The World through a Monocle, by George H. Douglas Cornog, The Birth of Empire, by Amy Bridges Crease, Making Physics, by James R. Hansen Cullather, Secret History, by Lars Schoultz Currie, The Constitution in Congress, by Gaspare J. Saladino
D	[Top]
Dalzell and Dalzell, George Washington's Mount Vernon, by Robert Blair St. George Dawson, Doniphan's Epic March, by Ana R. Suárez DeCaro, Malcolm and the Cross, by Robert L. Harris Jr. Diedrich, Love across Color Lines, by Martha Hodes Donaldson, Truman Defeats Dewey; and Mitchell, Harry S. Truman and the News Media, by John Robert Greene Dowling, Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, by Marc M. Arkin Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment, by Marguerite S. Shaffer Dunn, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century, by Gregory W. Bush
E, F	[Top]
Edwards, The Conservative Revolution, by Gregory L. Schneider Egnal, New World Economies, by Jack Crowley Emery and Emery, A Young Man's Benefit, by David T. Beito Enstam, Women and the Creation of Urban Life, Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920; McArthur, Creating the New Woman; and McElhaney, Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas, by LeeAnn Whites Escobar, Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity; and Vigil, The Crusade for Justice, by Douglas Monroy Fiege, Irrigated Eden; and Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River, by John Walton Franco, Crossing the Pond, by Laurence M. Hauptman
G	[Top]
Gallagher, Breeding Better Vermonters, by Molly Ladd-Taylor Gellman, The Contender; and Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon, by Bruce Kuklick Genovese, A Consuming Fire, by John B. Boles Gerring, Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996, by Walter Dean Burnham Glazier, Dispersing the Ghetto, by Gerald Sorin Glickman, A Living Wage, by Meg Jacobs Goldberg, Discontented America, by Joseph A. McCartin Gomez-Jefferson, In Darkness with God, by William Seraile Grey, New Deal Medicine, by Susan L. Smith Groce, Mountain Rebels, by Noel C. Fisher Gustafson, Miller, and Perry, eds., We Have Come to Stay; Finnegan, Selling Suffrage; and Newman, White Women's Rights, by Peggy Pascoe
H, I	[Top]
Hamilton, Terrific Majesty, by William H. Worger Harris, Building Lives, by Barbara M. Kelly Hartman, Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature; and Egan, Authorizing Experience, by Philip F. Gura Hass, Carried to the Wall, by G. Kurt Piehler Henderson, California & the Fictions of Capital, by Steven Stoll Hershberger, Traveling to Vietnam, by Paul Joseph Himmel, The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821-1859, by Paul H. Carlson Hirt, ed., Terra Pacifica, by Robert Bunting Hobson, But Now I See, by Thomas A. Underwood Hoelscher, Heritage on Stage, by Dona Brown Hohner, Prohibition and Politics, by Thomas R. Pegram Hopkins, Harry Hopkins, by J. Christopher Schnell Hunt, The Turning, by Michael S. Foley Hyde, Copper for America, by Richard V. Francaviglia Irmscher, The Poetics of Natural History, by Mark V. Barrow Jr. Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court, by John E. Semonche
J, K	[Top]
Jackson, Race, Caste, and Status, by John K. Chance Jacobs, Engendered Encounters, by Helen M. Bannan James, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia, by Barbara Bair James, The Roar and the Silence, by Susan Lee Johnson Johnson, Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition, by David F. Schmitz Jones, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor, by Nick Salvatore Kelly, In the New England Fashion, by Lisa Wilson Kennedy, Freedom from Fear, by Mark H. Leff Kennedy, Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing, by Ann Fabian Kolp, Gentlemen and Freeholders, by Rebecca Starr Koshiro, Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan, by Naoko Shibusawa
L	[Top]
Löffler, Preußens und Sachsens Beziehungen zu den usa während des Sezessionskrieges, 1860-1865 (Prussia's and Saxony's relations with the United States during the Civil War, 1860-1865), by Ronald J. Granieri Lagemann, ed., Philanthropic Foundations, by Kenneth W. Rose Lamar, ed., The New Encyclopedia of the American West, by Beth LaDow Lambert, Inventing the "Great Awakening," by J. Richard Olivas Lasar, Pacifica Radio, by Jack Lule Levenstein, Accounting for Growth, by Thomas K. McCraw Lewis, Neptune's Militia, by David Syrett Lewis, Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought, by Wilson J. Moses Loving, Walt Whitman, by Robert A. Ferguson
M, N	[Top]
McCally, The Everglades, by Suzanne Marshall McConville, These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace, by Thomas J. Humphrey Miller, Stout, and Wilson, eds., Religion and the American Civil War, by David B. Chesebrough Mills, Control, by Thomas H. Leahey Mishler, Raising Reds; and Kaplan and Shapiro, eds., Red Diapers, by Robbie Lieberman Neilson, Warring Fictions, by Mark Bradley Nester, From Mountain Man to Millionaire, by William R. Swagerty Ninkovich, The Wilsonian Century; and Berg, Hönicke, Lammersdorf, and Rudder, eds., Macht und Moral (Power and morality), by Manfred Jonas
O, P	[Top]
Odom, After the Trenches, by I. B. Holley Jr. Oliver, Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961-63, by James G. Hershberg Ownby, American Dreams in Mississippi, by Robert E. Weems Jr. Perdue, Cherokee Women, by Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. Pratt and Castaneda, Builders, by Bruce E. Seely Purchase, Out of Nowhere, by Bryant F. Tolles Jr.
Q, R	[Top]
Rabinovitz, For the Love of Pleasure, by Nan Enstad Reddin, Wild West Shows, by Jerome O. Steffen Remini, The Battle of New Orleans, by C. Edward Skeen Rhoden, Revolutionary Anglicanism, by John F. Woolverton Richelson, America's Space Sentinels, by Andreas Reichstein Rogers, Confederate Home Front, by Steven E. Tripp Romalis, Pistol Packin' Mama, by Alessandro Portelli Rosen, American Compact, by Jack N. Rakove Rowbotham, A Century of Women, by Julia Kirk Blackwelder Rowland, George B. McClellan and Civil War History, by Lesley J. Gordon Ruelas, México y Estados Unidos en la revolución mundial de las telecomunicaciones (Mexico and the United States in the global revolution of telecommunications), by John A. Britton Ruffner, Maryland's Blue and Gray, by John H. DeBerry Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance, by Elizabeth Blackmar
S	[Top]
Sale, The Shaping of Containment; and Pierpaoli, Truman and Korea, by Roberto Rabel Sanders, Roots of Reform, by James Weinstein Sanson, Louisiana during World War II, by Paul D. Casdorph Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom, by Leslie Fishbein Schneider, Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings, by Edward J. Escobar Schneirov, Stromquist, and Salvatore, eds., The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s; and Papke, The Pullman Case, by Stephen H. Norwood Sheidley, Sectional Nationalism, by John Lauritz Larson Simonelli, American Fuehrer, by Susan Canedy Smith, The Sounds of Commerce, by Ian Gordon Smith, War & Press Freedom, by Patrick S. Washburn Sorley, A Better War; Lowe, ed., The Vietnam War; and McMahon, The Limits of Empire, by William J. Duiker Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness, by Robert H. Keller Stearns, Battleground of Desire, by Daniel Wickberg Stephenson, Campaigns and the Court, by Robert M. Goldman Stieglitz, 100 Percent American Boys (100 percent American boys), by Lora Knight Stowell, Rebuilding Zion, by Christine Leigh Heyrman Strong, Captive Selves, Captivating Others, by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola Sullivan, New World Symphonies, by John Dizikes
T	[Top]
Takagi,"Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction," by Christopher Phillips Taylor, Vietnamese Women at War, by Karen G. Turner Thompson, Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995, Keith Byerman Tong, Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D., by Päivi H. Hoikkala Trudeau, Like Men of War, by Donald Yacovone Twitchell, Lead Us into Temptation; and Calder, Financing the American Dream, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
U, V, W	[Top]
Walters, Benjamin Franklin and His Gods, by John Corrigan Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism, by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn White and White, Stylin', by Helen Bradley Foster White, Still Seeing Red, by Andrew D. Grossman Wilhelm, Bewegung oder Verein? (Movement or association?), by Friedrich E. Schuler Wyckoff, Creating Colorado, by Richard N. Ellis
X, Y, Z	[Top]
Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, by Edward Countryman