Book Reviews
Sept. 2004, Vol. 91 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 |

Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, by Robert L. Harris Jr.

Ashton, Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920, by Michael Anesko

Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863, by Brooks D. Simpson

Bass, Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance, by Douglas Little

Bednarek, with Bednarek, Dreams of Flight: General Aviation in the United States, by George E. Hopkins

Beran, Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind, by Andrew Burstein

Bercaw, Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875, by Susan E. O'Donovan

Berg, The Ticket to Freedom: Die naacp und das Wahlrecht der Afro-Amerikaner (The ticket to freedom: The naacp and the Afro-Americans' right to vote), by Herbert Shapiro

Bernardin, Graulich, MacFarlane, and Tonkovich, Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940, by Melissa A. McEuen

Black, War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, by Barry Mehler

Blackwelder, Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation, by Sherrie Tucker

Bodnar, Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film, by Robert Brent Toplin

Boosahda, Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community, by Anouar Majid

Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Browne, Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address, by Garrett Ward Sheldon

Bu, Making the World like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century, by Inderjeet Parmar

Calloway, One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark, by Roger L. Nichols

Campbell, English Public Opinion and the American Civil War, by Eugene H. Berwanger

Carlyon, Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of, by Steven C. Bullock

Carpenter, On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II, by Rebecca Sharpless

Carrese, The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism, by Stephen B. Presser

Chambers, Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth-Century Mineral Springs, by Theodore Corbett

Cinotto, Una famiglia che mangia insieme: Cibo ed etnicità nella comunità italoamericana di New York, 1920-1940 (A family that eats together: Food and ethnicity in the Italian American community of New York, 1920-1940), by Betty Boyd Caroli

Clymer, America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word, by Robert Justin Goldstein

Cunningham, Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art, by Nancy Page Fernandez

Curran, Soldiers of Peace: Civil War Pacifism and the Postwar Radical Peace Movement, by Valarie H. Ziegler

Cutter, Domestic Devils, Battlefield Angels: The Radicalism of American Womanhood, 1830-1865, by Laura McCall

D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, by V. P. Franklin

Davis, Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery, by Peter Kolchin

Denton, American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857, by Jan Shipps

Dobson, US Economic Statecraft for Survival, 1933-1991: Of Sanctions, Embargoes, and Economic Warfare, by Kenneth A. Rodman

Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture, by Brenda Murphy

Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, by Ronald L. Lewis

Dunaway, The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, by Dylan C. Penningroth

Eisinger, The Evolution of Presidential Polling, by George H. Skau

Ellis, The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run, by Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

En, Amerika to Nikka Kowa (America and the Japan-Taiwan peace treaty), by Noriko Kawamura

Engerman, Gilman, Haefele, and Latham, eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War, by Hemant Shah

Farber, Lincoln's Constitution, by Stewart Winger

Finnegan, Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and fsa Photographs, by F. Jack Hurley

Fisher, Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America, by Allen Steinberg

Fogel, The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective, by Peter Kolchin

Fornieri, Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith, by Ronald C. White Jr.

Fosl, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South, by Elna C. Green

Fought, Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810-1879, by Jane H. Pease

Frick, Theatre, Culture, and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, by Scott C. Martin

Friedman, Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II, by John F. Bratzel

Fuller, Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America, by Leonard Sweet

Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, by Richard E. Beringer

Garate, Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, by Dedra McDonald Birzer

Garner, Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution, by Jane H. Hunter

Geelhoed and Edmonds, Eisenhower, Macmillan, and Allied Unity, 1957-1961, by Ritchie Ovendale

George, Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Stephen J. Whitfield

Gitelman and Pingree, eds., New Media, 1740-1915, by Peter J. Wosh

Gordon, Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America, by Thomas R. Oliver

Goss, The War within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship during the Civil War, by Mark E. Neely Jr.

Graham, The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience, by Michael S. Foley

Grossman, Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation, by Mary Kupiec Cayton

Grounds, Tinker, and Wilkins, eds., Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance, by Robert L. Bee

Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945, by Gary R. Mormino

Hagan, Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889-1893, by Brad Agnew

Hamilton, The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752-1830, by A. Glenn Crothers

Hart, That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century, by James P. Byrd Jr.

Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930, by Todd DePastino

High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984, by Howard Gillette Jr.

Higurashi, Tokyo saiban no kokusai kankei: Kokusai seiji ni okeru kenryoku to kihan (International relations surrounding the Tokyo trials: Power and code in international politics), by Frederick R. Dickinson

Holifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War, by Robert E. Brown

Homberger, Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age, by Mary W. Blanchard

Hood, The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania, by Michael V. Kennedy

Hook, The Virgin & the Dynamo: Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917, by Barbara Melosh

Houck and Kiewe, fdr's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability, by Hugh E. Evans M.D.

Hune and Nomura, eds., Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, by Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Hurt, ed., African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950, by Greta de Jong

Hutchison, Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal, by Mark Hulsether

Hutson, Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of Religious Themes in the Early American Republic, by Frank Lambert

Ippolito, Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics, by Iwan Morgan

Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Barbara B. Oberg

Johnson, Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper, by Steven C. Bullock

Johnston, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, by John D. Buenker

Juster, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution, by Dee E. Andrews

Kaplan and Kaplan, Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, by Eugenie L. Birch

Kilgore, Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space, by Howard P. Segal

Klotter, Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid, by Craig Thompson Friend

Kraut, Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader, by Susan E. Lederer

Lamarre, The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914, by François Weil

Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943, by Renqiu Yu

Lhamon, Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture, by Rosemarie K. Bank

Liebovich, Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective, by Dean J. Kotlowski

Lombard, Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England, by Gloria L. Main

Lotchin, The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego, by Charles Wollenberg

Lott, From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland, by Michael Broyles

Lowe, Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930, by Lynn D. Gordon

Lyons, The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia, by Jennifer Frost

Machado, Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888-1945, by R. Douglas Brackenridge

Mahan, Kennedy, de Gaulle, and Western Europe, by William I. Hitchcock

Mauch, trans. by Riemer, The Shadow War against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service, by Jay Lockenour

McAllister, White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African & American Theater, by Craig Steven Wilder

McPherson, Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South, by Jacqueline Glass Campbell

Mellis, Riding Buffaloes and Broncos: Rodeo and Native Traditions in the Northern Great Plains, by Loretta Fowler

Metzl, Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, by Eugene Taylor

Miller, Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga, by Jane F. Lancaster

Minohara, Hainichi iminho to nichibei kankei: “Hanihara shokan” no shinso to sono “Judainaru kekka” (The Japanese exclusion act and U.S.-Japanese relations: The truth behind the “Hanihara note” and its “grave consequences”), by Yasuhide Kawashima

Miraldi, The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell, by Robert C. Kochersberger

Moore, Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II, by Thomas Y. Fujita-Rony

Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History, by R. Scott Appleby

Murray, The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965, by Amy Swerdlow

Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement, by Amy Kesselman

Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia, by Richard G. Miller

Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by John Corrigan

Nye, America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings, by Joseph W. Slade

Oinas-Kukkonen, Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility: Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944-1947, by Robert D. Eldridge

Olson, Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America, by Dean J. Kotlowski

Oppenheimer, Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture, by Robert Booth Fowler

Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58, by Paul H. Mattingly

Paton, Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop, by Elizabeth Johns

Perras, Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945, by Jeffrey G. Barlow

Pfitzer, Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840-1900, by Scott E. Casper

Pierson, Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics, by Jacqueline Bacon

Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation, by Helen C. Rountree

Ramsey, Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop, by Nichole T. Rustin

Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, by Kathryn L. Nasstrom

Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America, by John Milton Cooper Jr.

Ritter and Medhurst, eds., Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond, by George H. Skau

Ryan, The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence, by Lori D. Ginzberg

Sampson, John L. O'Sullivan and His Times, by Tom Chaffin

Schorman, Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century, by Nancy Page Fernandez

Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam, by Frank Costigliola

Sentilles, Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity, by Charles L. Ponce de Leon

Shackel, Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape, by Thomas Andrew Denenberg

Sharpe, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives, by Hilary McD. Beckles

Shimakawa, Amerika no Senso to Nichibei Ampo Taisei (America's wars and the U.S.-Japan security system), by Richard H. Minear

Shiozaki, Amerika “Chinichiha” no Kigen (Origins of a “pro-Japanese group” in the United States), by Yoneyuki Sugita

Skeen, 1816: America Rising, by James E. Lewis Jr.

Smith, From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States, by Stephen H. Norwood

Smythe, The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900, by W. Joseph Campbell

Squier, ed., Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture, by Derek Vaillant

Sterett, Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937, by Anthony R. Travis

Stern, Averting ‘The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings, by Meena Bose

Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente, by Mary Elise Sarotte

Taketani, U.S. Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism, 1825-1861, by Jeanne Boydston

Tanigawa, Amerika eiga to senryo seisaku (The formulation and implementation of U.S. film policy toward occupied Japan), by Sayuri Shimizu

Teaford, The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government, by Gerald Gamm

Testi, La formazione degli Stati Uniti (The formation of the United States), by Martha Saxton

Theoharis and Woodard, eds., Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles outside the South, 1940-1980, by James R. Ralph Jr.

Tobin, To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight, by William F. Trimble

Treat, Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era, by Ward Churchill

Ueda and Wright, eds., Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts, 1860-2000, by Frederick M. Binder

Ward, Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765, by Richard Middleton

Williamson, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75, by Yohuru R. Williams

Willrich, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago, by Wayne K. Hobson

Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln, by Stephen Hansen

Wittner, The Struggle against the Bomb, vol. 3: Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present, by Milton S. Katz

Witwer, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union, by Kevin Boyle

Woodruff, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta, by John A. Kirk

Wright, Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic, by Jonathan M. Chu

Yee, Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California, by David K. Yoo

Zieger, America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience, by Nancy Gentile Ford