Book Reviews
Sept. 2003, Vol. 90 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 |

Aamodt, Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War, by Curtis D. Johnson

Acker, Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control, by Jim Baumohl

Aldama and Quiñz, eds., Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century, by Richard A. Garcia

Amato, Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History, by Louise Appleton

Anderson and Fienberg, Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America, by Phillip VanderMeer

Blaetz, Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture, by Shelley Armitage

Brands, The Strange Death of American Liberalism, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Brophy, Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation, by Dominic J. Capeci Jr.

Bryson, Socializing the Young: The Role of Foundations, 1923–1941, by Kathleen W. Jones

Bushman, In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker, by Peter A. Coclanis

Butler, Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the era Debate, 1921–1929, by Judith A. Baer

Byrd, The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible, by Paul C. Gutjahr

Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by H. W. Brands

Carretta and Gould, eds., Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic, by Simon P. Newman

Castronovo and Nelson, eds., Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics, by Pippa Holloway

Cayton, Ohio: The History of a People, by John L. Brooke

Choate, Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program, by John E. Miller

Coburn and Smith, Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836–1920, by Tracy Fessenden

Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era, by Annick Cizel

Curtis, Islam in Black America: Identity, Liberation, and Difference in African-American Islamic Thought, by J. M. Floyd-Thomas

Cyphers, The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, 1900–1915, by Edward A. Stettner

D'Este, Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life, by Philip Nash

de Jong, A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900–1970, by John C. Rodrigue

Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy, by Allen Hunter

Dommen, The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, by Edward Rice-Maximin

Dunn, Opening New Markets: The British Army and the Old Northwest, by Larry L. Nelson

Faue, Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism, by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Feis, Grant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox, by Kevin Conley Ruffner

Field, Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual, by Albert J. von Frank

Finan, Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior, by Allan J. Lichtman

Finley and DeBlack, eds., The Southern Elite and Social Change: Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood Jr, by Jeffrey J. Crow

Fitzpatrick, Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience, by George B. Tindall

Forslund, Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations, by Qiang Zhai

Fowler, Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination: Cheyenne-Arapaho Politics, by Paul C. Rosier

Francis, The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America, by Jeffrey P. Moran

Gabriel, Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero, by Reginald C. Stuart

Galambos and Abrahamson, Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World, by David Hochfelder

Gavin, Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, by David Ake

Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982, by Judith A. Allen

Giberti, Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia, by Steven Conn

Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America, by Daniel R. Mandell

Golden and Golden, Thomas Jefferson and the Rhetoric of Virtue, by Jean M. Yarbrough

Golin, The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line, by James W. Fraser

Gorman, Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry, by Brian C. Black

Gough, Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath, by Kevin J. Crisman

Griffith, Serving History in a Changing World: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the Twentieth Century, by Linda Shopes

Hall, Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905–1930, by David T. Brundage

Hattaway and Beringer, Jefferson Davis, Confederate President, by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Heideking and Henretta, eds., Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850, by David F. Ericson

Hellegers, We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution, vol. 1: Washington, vol. 2: Tokyo, by Timothy P. Maga

Hess, Lee’s Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, by J. Tracy Power

Hinshaw, Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, by James P. Quigel Jr.

Hoig, Perilous Pursuit: The U.S. Cavalry and the Northern Cheyennes, by John H. Monnett

Hughes and Whitney, Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman’s Relentless Warrior, by Steven E. Woodworth

Inglis, People’s Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics, by William S. Solomon

Irish, Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee: A Political Biography, by Jack Irby Hayes Jr.

Jewett, Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building, by Norman D. Brown

Johnson, Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866–1910, by Carol Lasser

Jones, ed., Crossing Boundaries: The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and the United States, by Joseph W. Bendersky

Kagan, ed., Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States, by Jane M. Rausch

Kang, Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women, by Sally A. Hastings

Kantor, Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art, by Evelyn C. Hankins

Kaplan, Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865–1920, by Brooks D. Simpson

Katznelson and Shefter, eds., Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development, by Bruce Cumings

Keane, Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles: The Biography of a Community Developer and Philanthropist, by Catherine Mulholland

Keller and Keller, Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University, by Roger L. Geiger

Kennedy, Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933–1939: Imperial Crossroads, by Frederick F. Travis

Kirk, Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970, by Alex Lubin

Klein, Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929, by Pamela Walker Laird

Koehn, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, by Tracey Deutsch

Krabbendam, Roholl, and Vries, eds., The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration, by Ross Miller

Kurashige, Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990, by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

Lankford, Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital, by William C. Davis

Lasser, Benjamin V. Cohen: Architect of the New Deal, by Jeanne Nienaber Clarke

Lee, The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley, by Angus McLaren

Leidholdt, Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. JaffÉ, by David B. Sachsman

Leiker, Racial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande, by Marvin Fletcher

Lerner, The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy, by David M. Barrett

Linkon and Russo, Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown, by James P. Quigel Jr.

Lustig, The Imperial Executive in America: Sir Edmund Andros, 1637–1714, by Evan Haefeli

McKoy, When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures, by Dwight N. Hopkins

Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth, by Thomas Winter

Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, by Lisa Duggan

Milkis and Mileur, eds., The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism, by Theodore Rosenof

Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, by Kenneth J. Winkle

Minton, Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America, by K. A. Cuordileone

Mitchell, Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress’s Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960–1971, by Ken Coates

Miyazato, Nichibei Kankei to Okinawa, 1945–1972 (Japan-U.S. relations and Okinawa, 1945–1972), by Robert D. Eldridge

Montoya, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1900, by James F. Brooks

Morrison, The Solidarity of Kin: Ethnohistory, Religious Studies, and the Algonkian-French Religious Encounter, by William Newbigging

Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965, by Lisa McGirr

Nielsen, Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare, by Landon Storrs

Norwood, Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America, by Ileen A. DeVault

Okun, Crime and the Nation: Prison Reform and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia, 1786–1800, by John K. Alexander

Ott, Serlin, and Mihm, eds., Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics, by Joel D. Howell

Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. 2: 1851–1891, by David S. Reynolds

Parry-Giles, The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945–1955, by Brett Gary

Pauw, "The Supreme Harmony of All": The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards, by W. Clark Gilpin

Pencak, Dennis, and Newman, eds., Riot and Revelry in Early America, by Terry Bouton

PÉrez, Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba, by Lillian Guerra

Power, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, by Rafael Medoff

Pratt, Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film, by Allison Graham

Pratt, Becker, and McClenahan, Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council, by David S. Painter

Pratt, Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy, by Paul Jerome Croce

Proctor, Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South, by Jennifer R. Green

Rafuse, A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas, by Earl J. Hess

Raven, London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748–1811, by Francis J. Bremer

Register, The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements, by Lewis A. Erenberg

Reid, Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions, by Barton H. Barbour

Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle, by Thomas J. Humphrey

Rimmerman, From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States, by Dean J. Kotlowski

Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization, by Steve Babson

Rosenthal, Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities, by Jacqueline K. Dirks

Schier and Russett, eds., Catholic Women’s Colleges in America, by Carol K. Coburn

Schmidt, Umble, and Reschly, eds., Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, by Steven M. Nolt

Schneider, "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age, by Ralph E. Luker

Schulte, Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West, by J. Brooks Flippen

Schumacher, Kalter Krieg und Propaganda: Die usa, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung, und die ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945–1955 (The Cold War and propaganda: The usa, the struggle over world opinion, and the idealistic Western orientation of West Germany, 1945–1955), by G䰠J. Bischof

Schuyler, A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980, by David R. Contosta

Schwieder, Growing Up with the Town: Family & Community on the Great Plains, by Linda Pickle

Shapiro, Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film, by Andrew D. Grossman

Sherman, A Communist Front at Mid-Century: The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1933–1959, by John Earl Haynes

Shoemaker, ed., Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies, by Michael D. Green

Simpson, An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945–1960, by Scott Kurashige

Singer, Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909, by Diana Davids Olien

Slaton, Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900–1930, by Dennis P. Doordan

Spack, America’s Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900, by Wilbert H. Ahern

St. Clair and Gugin, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography, by William D. Pederson

Starr, ed., Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America: Essays in Honor of J. R. Pole, by Robert E. Shalhope

Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History, by Linda Nash

Stentiford, The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century, by James T. Currie

Stern and Markel, eds., Formative Years: Children’s Health in the United States, 1880–2000, by Susan L. Smith

Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America, by Brian Donahue

Streeby, American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture, by Amy S. Greenberg

Sturgeon, The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall, by J. Brooks Flippen

Sturtz, Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia, by Catherine Kerrison

Talbott and Chanda, eds., The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11, by Brigitte L. Nacos

Tannenbaum, The Healer’s Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England, by Theresa Kaminski

Theoharis, Chasing Spies: How the fbi Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years, by Michal R. Belknap

Theophano, Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, by Gayle R. Davis

Thurman, "O Sisters Ain’t You Happy?": Gender, Family, and Community among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781–1918, by Priscilla J. Brewer

Tichenor, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America, by Michael Jones-Correa

Topp, Those without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists, by Francis Shor

Usselman, Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920, by William R. Childs

VanBurkleo, Hall, and Kaczorowski, eds., Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History, by Stuart Banner

Wald, Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, by Chip Rhodes

Wallace, Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995, by Clarence E. Walker

Ware and Back, Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture, by Matthew Pratt Guterl

Wells, The Devil & Doctor Dwight: Satire & Theology in the Early American Republic, by Catherine Kaplan

Wiecek, The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886–1937, by William P. LaPiana

Wilson, Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War, by Bess Beatty

Winter, Making Men, Making Class: The ymca and Workingmen, 1877–1920, by Bruce Dorsey