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Book Reviews March 2004, Vol. 90 No. 4
[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 \|

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Akam, Transnational America: Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century, by Roland F. Wacker Ake, Jazz Cultures, by Kathy J. Ogren Alonso, Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children, by Lawrence B. Goodheart Alpers, Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s, by Judy Kutulas Alterman, Egypt and American Foreign Assistance, 1952-1956: Hopes Dashed, by Nathan J. Citino Anderson, Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail, by Mark Harvey Ashcraft, The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture, by Rod Janzen Asselin, A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement, by Benjamin T. Harrison
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Bacon, The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition, by Kris Fresonke Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by William Warren Rogers Jr. Baldwin, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963, by Kathryne V. Lindberg Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition, by Daniel J. Tichenor Bass, Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete, by Donald Spivey Baumgarten, What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, by Donna D. Curtin Bender, The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea, by Kenneth T. Jackson Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, by Joseph C. Miller Bernstein, The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America, by M. J. Heale Biles, Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, by Linda C. Gugin Biven, Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits, by Nelson Lichtenstein Bjerre-Poulsen, Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement, 1945-65, by Gregory L. Schneider Blanton and Cook, They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War, by Janet L. Coryell Branson and Miller, Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled: A Sociological History, by Steven Noll Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, by Teresita Martínez-Vergne Burch, Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II, by Rebecca A. R. Edwards
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Chaffin, Pathfinder: John Charles FrÉmont and the Course of American Empire, by Vernon L. Volpe Chamberlain, Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II, by Judith Stein Chernus, General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse, by Craig Allen Choy, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History, by Kristin Hoganson Christensen, Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys, by Marguerite S. Shaffer Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970, by Howard A. DeWitt Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Jean-Christophe Agnew Coker, Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma, by Larry G. Gerber Cotkin, Existential America, by J. José Cruz
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Dain, A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic, by T. Stephen Whitman Dalton, Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist, by Hamilton Cravens Daniels and Kennedy, eds., Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820, by Cynthia Van Zandt
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Eifler, Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento, by Robert M. Senkewicz
F	[Top]
Farber, Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors, by James A. Ward Fisher, Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards, by Shawn Francis Peters Flanagan, Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933, by Mina Carson Foley, Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux, by John W. Bailey Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War, by Mary Hershberger Folpe, It Happened on Washington Square, by Leslie Fishbein Fraser, Savannah in the Old South, by John C. Inscoe Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941, by Kimberly A. Alidio
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Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, by Neil Jumonville Goodman, Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region, by Molly H. Mullin Gordis, Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England, by Peter J. Thuesen Green, ed., The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930, by Roger Biles Greenberg, ed., Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory, by Loren Schweninger Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America, by Ben Mutschler Grodzins, American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism, by David M. Robinson
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Haglund, Inventing the Charles River, by Sarah S. Elkind Hales, A Southern Family in White & Black: The Cuneys of Texas, by W. Marvin Dulaney Hangen, Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, & Popular Culture in America, by Leo P. Ribuffo Hannigan, The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917, by David Healy Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863, by George A. Lévesque Harris, The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew, by Maureen E. Montgomery Harrold, Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, by Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven Hemingway, Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956, by Robbie Lieberman Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, by Ted Ownby Hickey, Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940, by Joan Marie Johnson Hill, Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on Germany, by Gerhard L. Weinberg Höhn, GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany, by D'Ann Campbell Holden, In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina, by Mark G. Malvasi Hopkins, Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration: Anglo-American Relations, 1948-1952, by John Dumbrell Howard and Pederson, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World, by Frederick W. Marks III
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Irons, Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision, by John P. Jackson Jr. Irvine, Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
J	[Top]
Jackson, A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi, by Robert J. Norrell Janken, White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. naacp, by Kenneth W. Goings Johns, Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s, by Carlo Rotella Johns, Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation, by Sylvia Yount Juhnke, Quacks and Crusaders: The Fabulous Careers of John Brinkley, Norman Baker, and Harry Hoxsey, by Thomas D. Isern
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Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, by Dolores Janiewski Katz, Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati, by Shirley Teresa Wajda Kaufman, For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity, by Paul Michel Taillon Keller, Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902-1922, by Robert A. Trennert Kelman, A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans, by Edward F. Haas Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961, by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Kohlhoff, Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska, by Thomas Wellock Kornwolf, Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America, by J. Ritchie Garrison Krasner, A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927, by Susan Curtis Kromkowski, Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870, by Roger H. Brown
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Lambert, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, by Daniel L. Dreisbach Lawson, Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North, by Randall M. Miller Lears, Something for Nothing: Luck in America, by Karen Halttunen Leonard, The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois, by Mark Voss-Hubbard Link, Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia, by Wallace Hettle Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945, by Mark H. Lytle Long, Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels, by Hilton Obenzinger Luconi, Little Italies e New Deal: La coalizione rooseveltiana e il voto italo-americano a Filadelfia e Pittsburgh (Little Italies and the New Deal: The Roosevelt coalition and the Italian American vote in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), by Fraser M. Ottanelli
M	[Top]
Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence, by Kim M. Gruenwald Markowitz and Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, by Otis L. Graham Jr. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by Avihu Zakai Martin, Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935, by Joel A. Carpenter Matt, Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk Matthews, Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century, by Stephen Pitti McHenry, Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, by Keith E. Byerman McKenna, Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937, by Gary Dean Best Medoff, Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948, by Mark A. Raider Mindell, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, by Paul E. Ceruzzi Montgomery, The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande, by Jeffrey S. Smith Moran, Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair, by Scott Christianson Morris, Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, by Charles W. Calhoun
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Nathan, Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal, by Peter Levine Nichols, Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918, by Sharon E. Wood
O	[Top]
Owens, ed., Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World, by Robert M. Senkewicz
P	[Top]
Patenaude, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921, by Leo J. Bacino Pearson, Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon, by Robert W. Righter Pinch and Trocco, Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, by Steve Waksman Pisani, Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935, by James E. Sherow Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988, by Kate A. Baldwin Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis, by Steve Golin Pybus and Maxwell-Stewart, American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839-1850, by Shelley Streeby
R	[Top]
Revell, Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938, by Joel Schwartz Rogers, John Nolen & Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio, by Joseph L. Arnold Rokicky, Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias in Nineteenth-Century Ohio, by Louis J. Kern Rutherford, Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick & the Rise of Household Efficiency, by Jennifer Scanlon
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Salinger, Taverns and Drinking in Early America, by Paul G. E. Clemens Sanders, Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race, by Matthew J. Streb Sandweiss, Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, by Elspeth H. Brown Sandweiss, ed., St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall, by Thomas M. Spencer Satterfield, The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library, by Catherine Turner Saxton, Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America, by Lorri Glover Scharff, Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West, by C. Elizabeth Raymond Schneider, ed., Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War, by Hans A. Baer Schoepflin, Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America, by Stuart E. Knee Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape, by Joel Schwartz Silver, Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America, by Chad Montrie Sinke, Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920, by Randall Balmer Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution, by J. Morgan Kousser Smith, ed., Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era, by Rita Roberts Staub, Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America, by Abraham J. Peck Stewart and Moorhead, eds., Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work, by Gillis J. Harp Sweeney, Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, by James D. German Swierenga, Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City, by Randall Balmer
T	[Top]
Thomas, The Lincoln Memorial & American Life, by Thomas R. Turner Thornton III, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, by Peter J. Ling Tumber, American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875-1915, by Laura E. Donaldson
U	[Top]
Uviller and Merkel, The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent, by Robert J. Spitzer
V	[Top]
Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land, by Christopher Sellers Van Broekhoven, The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network, by Anne M. Boylan Van Nuys, Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, by Lucy E. Salyer Voss-Hubbard, Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War, by Stephen E. Maizlish
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Waldrep, The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America, by Dennis B. Downey Webb, Science in the American Southwest: A Topical History, by M. Susan Lindee Wellenreuther, Niedergang und Aufstieg: Geschichte Nordamerikas vom Beginn der Besiedlung bis zum Ausgang des 17. Jahrhunderts (Decline and rise: History of North America from the beginning of settlement to the end of the 17th century), by Marianne S. Wokeck Wellenreuther, Ausbildung und Neubildung: Die Geschichte Nordamerikas vom Ausgang des 17. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ausbruch der Amerikanischen Revolution 1775 (Cultivation and new growth: The history of North America from the end of the 17th century to the outbreak of the American Revolution, 1775), by Marianne S. Wokeck White, Stories of Freedom in Black New York, by George A. LÉvesque Wieck, Lincoln's Quest for Equality: The Road to Gettysburg, by Kent Gramm Williams, Williams, and Carlson, Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia, by Jon L. Wakelyn Wilson, The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate: The Politics of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875, by Roberta Sue Alexander Wilson, Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers during the Civil War, by Rita Roberts Winger, Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics, by David B. Chesebrough Woloson, Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America, by Bryan F. Le Beau Wynkoop, Dissent in the Heartland: The Sixties at Indiana University, by Rusty L. Monhollon
Y	[Top]
Yoshihara, Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism, by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Z	[Top]
Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, & Women's Political Identity, by Anne M. Boylan