Book Reviews
Sept. 2002, Vol. 89 No. 2

[Table of Contents]

Alphabetical by the last name of the book's first author or editor

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 |

Abrams, Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920–1940, by Margaret Bendroth

Allen, A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg, by Julie E. Des Jardins

Andreas, Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, by Patrick Ettinger

Antliff, Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde, by George H. Roeder Jr.

Bao, Holding up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92, by Adam McKeown

Bass, Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail", by James Findlay

Basso, McCall, and Garceau, eds., Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West, by Virginia Scharff

Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925–1945, by Earl Lewis

Berghahn, America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepard Stone between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy, by Akira Iriye

Blatt, Brown, and Yacovone, eds., Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, by James Russell Duncan

Bonsall, More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story, by Bruce E. Seely

Bontemps, The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South, by Robert E. Desrochers Jr.

Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon, by Wallace Hettle

Bramen, The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness, by Kathryn L. Oberdeck

Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South, by Steven A. Reich

Bressler, The Universalist Movement in America, 1770–1880, by Bruce Kuklick

Briggs, Immigration and American Unionism, by Catherine Collomp

Buell, Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond, by Richard Grusin

Buenger, The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression, by Jeanette Keith

Buff, Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945–1992, by Milton Vickerman

Buhle and Wagner, A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left, by Sam B. Girgus

Burnett and Marshall, eds., Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution, by Samuel Shapiro

Butsch, The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750–1990, by George Potamianos

Campbell, Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies, by John Pauly

Carroll, Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823–1860, by Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Castel, Tom Taylor’s Civil War, by Lesley J. Gordon

Cecelski, The Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, by Mark M. Smith

Chamberlain, Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922–1982, by Howard Meredith

Chisholm, Waiting for Dead Men’s Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy’s Officer Personnel System, 1793–1941, by John H. Schroeder

Christensen, Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822–1887, by Gregory E. Smoak

Cohen and Taylor, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation, by Jon C. Teaford

Colburn and Adler, eds., African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City, by Michael W. Homel

Cole, A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio, by Kathryn Joyce Carr

Collomp, Entre classe et nation: Mouvement ouvrier et immigration aux États-Unis, 1880–1920 (Between class and nation: The labor movement and immigration in the United States, 1880–1920), by Dirk Hoerder

Corbett, The Making of American Resorts: Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, and Lake George, by Dona Brown

Coryell, ed., Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers That Be, by Christie Farnham-Pope

Cowden, “Heaven Will Frown on Such a Cause as This”: Six Democrats Who Opposed Lincoln’s War, by Thomas F. Curran

Crowe, Prophets of Rage: The Black Freedom Struggle in San Francisco, 1945–1969, by Kenneth Goings

Crowley, The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America, by Robert Blair St. George

Curtis, The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840–1875, by Colin Read

Daniel, Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States, by Janet C. Irons

Davies, Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century, by George Pierre Castile

de Graaf, Mulroy, and Taylor, eds., Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, by Lynn M. Hudson

De Luca, Fuochi sul Canale: La Crisi di Suez, gli Stati Uniti e la ricerca di una nuova politica in Medio Oriente, 1955-1958 (Fires over the canal: The Suez crisis, the United States, and the search for a new policy in the Middle East, 1955-1958), by Elena Calandri

Dennis, Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880–1920, by Wayne J. Urban

Diner, Shandler, and Wenger, eds., Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections, by Hadassa Kosak

Dirck, Lincoln & Davis: Imagining America, 1809–1865, by David Donald

Dowie, American Foundations: An Investigative History, by John C. Schneider

Doyle, Faulkner’s County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, by Daniel J. Singal

Easingwood, Groß and Lutz, eds., Informal Empire?: Cultural Relations between Canada, the United States, and Europe, by Fran Kaye

Edgerton and Rollins, eds., Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, by Mary R. Desjardins

Fischer, Pantaloons & Power: A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States, by Nancy Page Fernandez

Frank, From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750–1820, by John Nieto-Philips

Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic, by Robert E. Shalhope

Gienow-Hecht, Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955, by Robert Edwin Herzstein

Giovacchini, Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal, by Jon Lewis

Glassberg, Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life, by Paula Hamilton

Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by Duane Tananbaum

Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, by Sharon Hartman Strom

Grace, Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life, by Robert Booth Fowler

Green, Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980, by Ileen A. DeVault

Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, by Ronald J. Zboray

Haberski, It’s Only a Movie!: Films and Critics in American Culture, by Michael E. Birdwell

Hackemer, The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847–1883, by James R. Reckner

Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, by Ira Berlin

Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, by Patrick Hagopian

Helbling, The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many, by Tony Martin

Herman, Hunting and the American Imagination, by Louis Warren

Hewitt, Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms: The Quest for an Arts and Crafts Utopia, by Richard Guy Wilson

Higham, Noble, Wretched, & Redeemable: Protestant Missionaries to the Indians in Canada and the United States, 1820–1900, by Joel W. Martin

Houck, Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression, by Craig Allen

Huhndorf, Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination, by Rachel Buff

Hunter, Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780, by Gloria L. Main

Jackson, The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948–63, by Thomas W. Zeiler

Jacobs, Eisenhower at Columbia, by Kenneth Osgood

Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917, by Edward P. Crapol

Jansson, The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present, by Mark H. Leff

Johnston, Control and Order in French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713–1758, by Luca Codignola

Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America, by Susan Curtis

Kates, Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Region, by Theodore J. Karamanski

Kersh, Dreams of a More Perfect Union, by Richard B. Bernstein

Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America, by Wendy Gamber

Kroes, Them and Us: Questions of Citizenship in a Globalizing World, by Dorothee Schneider

Laughlin, Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970, by Lisa M. Fine

Lause, The Civil War’s Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party, & the Politics of Race & Section, by Gerald Friedman

Lieberson, A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change, by Joseph M. Hawes

Lookingbill, Dust Bowl, usa: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929–1941, by Mark W. T. Harvey

Luconi, From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadephia, by Nancy C. Carnevale

Maguire, Law and War: An American Story, by Peter Black

Main, Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England, by Michael W. Zuckerman

Margolian, Unauthorized Entry: The Truth about Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946–1956, by Peter Black

McCusker and Morgan, eds., The Early Modern Atlantic Economy, by Marc Egnal

McDonald, States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876, by Richard B. Bernstein

McDonough, Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The Parallel Lives of Two American Patriots, by Keith Krawczynski

McGrath, The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane, by Robert L. Gold

McNay, Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy, by John L. Harper

Mohr and Gordon, Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945–1980, by William J. Billingsley

Moskowitz, In Therapy We Trust: America’s Obsession with Self-Fulfillment, by Kathleen W. Jones

Murphy, The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought, by Michael Kreyling

Nagler, Nationale Minoritäten im Krieg: “Feindliche Ausländer” und die amerikanische Heimatfront während des Ersten Weltkriegs (National minorities in war: “Enemy foreigners” and the American home front during the First World War), by Elliott Shore

Nelson, Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964, by Mary Ann Dzuback

Oliphant, Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756–63, by Clyde R. Ferguson

Overland, Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930, by Alan M. Kraut

Palermo, In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, by Paul R. Henggeler

Pasley, “The Tyranny of Printers”: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic, by Susan Branson

Pettegrew, ed., A Pragmatist’s Progress?: Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History, by George Cotkin

Pickett, Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy, by Kenneth Osgood

Plank, An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia, by Denys Delage

Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861–1862, by Lesley J. Gordon

Ramirez,with Otis, Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900–1930, by John Laslett

Reid-Maroney, Philadelphia’s Enlightenment, 1740–1800: Kingdom of Christ, Empire of Reason, by Cedric B. Cowing

Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940, by Brenda Gayle Plummer

Reuther, Die Ambivalente Normalisierung: Deutschlanddiskurs und Deutschlandbilder in den usa, 1941–1955 (The ambivalent normalization: Discourse on Germany and images of Germany in the usa, 1941–1955), by Peter F. Coogan

Rivers and Brown, Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the ame Church in Florida, 1865–1895, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Robbins and Foster, eds., Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good, by R. McGreggor Cawley

Rodrigue, Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880, by Julie Saville

Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, by Jared P. Orsi

Rose, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism, by James R. Zetka Jr.

Rose, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, by Richard M. Fried

Rose, Firms, Networks, and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750, by Peter Coclanis

Rosier, Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912–1954, by Howard L. Harrod

Ross, Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League, by Donald Spivey

Ruotsila, British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War, by Michael Carley

Saul, War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914–1921, by David W. McFadden

Saum, Eugene Field and His Age, by Sally F. Griffith

Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880–1930, by Eileen Boris

Schmidt, Red Scare: fbi and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States, 1919–1943, by Kenneth O'Reilly

Schroeder, Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat, by Harold D. Langley

Schwarz, Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation, by Charles B. Dew

Sehlinger and Hamilton, Spokesman for Democracy: Claude G. Bowers, 1878–1958, by Thomas R. Pegram

Singleton, The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression, by Patrick D. Reagan

Sitton and Deverell, eds., Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s, by Albert S. Broussard

Sizer, The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850–1872, by Lori Merish

Sobel, Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era, by Konstantin Dierks

Soden, The Reverend Mark Matthews: An Activist in the Progressive Era, by Jacob H. Dorn

St. George, ed., Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America, by Troy O. Bickham

St. Germain, Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867–1877, by John R. Wunder

Steinfeld, Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century, by Robert J. Goldstein

Steinle, In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Controversies and Postwar American Character, by John Arthur Maynard

Steward, Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T, by Michael Cassity

Stokes, The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy, by Jennifer D. Brody

Testi, Trionfo e declino dei partiti politici negli Stati Uniti, 1860–1930 (Triumph and decline of political parties in the United States, 1860–1930), by Maureen A. Flanagan

Tomlins and Mann, eds., The Many Legalities of Early America, by Karin A. Wulf

Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Tunnell, Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Michael A. Ross

Valle and Torres, Latino Metropolis, by Richard Griswold Del Castillo

Walker, Shaping Our Mothers’ World: American Women’s Magazines, by Jessica Weiss

Wall, France, the United States, and the Algerian War, by Thomas (Tim) Borstelmann

Wardhaugh, Mackenzie King and the Prairie West, by James M. Pitsula

Warren and Warren, Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901–2001, by Paul A. Tiffany

Weddle, Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century, by Daniel B. Thorp

Weigand, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women’s Liberation, by Kathleen Kennedy

Weise, Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850–1915, by Paul Salstrom

Wells, Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine, by Deborah Kuhn McGregor

Wells, Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg, by Richard Gid Powers

Williams, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson, by Allison Graham