Book Reviews
March 2006, Vol. 92 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 |

Alterman, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences, by Louis W. Liebovich

Anderson and Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000, by Serge Ricard

Anderson, Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel, 1917–2002, by Herbert Druks

Appelbaum and Sweet, eds., Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, by Albert H. Tillson Jr.

Austin, From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II, by Lauren Kessler

Barnhart, Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology, by Curtis M. Hinsley Jr.

Batinski, Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts, by Briann G. Greenfield

Bell, The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years, by Alonzo L. Hamby

Bender, Evolution and “the Sex Problem”: American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism, by David Depew

Berg and Gassert, eds., Deutschland und die usa in der Internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift für Detlef Junker (Germany and the usa in 20th-century international history: Festschrift for Detlef Junker), by Geoff Eley

Birdwell and Dickinson, eds., Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, by Dwight B. Billings

Bloch and Umansky, eds., Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, by Mary Ann Wynkoop

Blue, No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics, by James L. Huston

Blumrosen and Blumrosen, Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution, by Daniel C. Littlefield

Brown, Toussaint’s Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution, by Alan L. Karras

Brown, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign, by Earl J. Hess

Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, by Kirk Curnutt

Bucheli, Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000, by Jane M. Rausch

Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World, by Linda L. Sturtz

Chambers, Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia, by Phillip Hamilton

Cohen, British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775–1783: The Role of the “Middling-Level” Activists, by John Sainsbury

Coski, The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem, by James C. Cobb

Creighton, The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War’s Defining Battle, by Ervin L. Jordan Jr.

Dawson, Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850–1920, by Cindy S. Aron

de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe, by Christopher Endy

DePalma, Dialogue on the Frontier: Catholic and Protestant Relations, 1793–1883, by Amy DeRogatis

Derickson, Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America, by Theodore R. Marmor

Eperjesi, The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture, by Jon Davidann

Estes, I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement, by Herman Graham III

Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama, by Kent Redding

Fischer, Liberty and Freedom, by Lester C. Olson

Flamming, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, by Eric Avila

Fradkin, The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, by Robert W. Cherny

Friend, Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West, by Jeffrey P. Brown

Gardner and Gittinger, eds., The Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1964–1968, by Robert Buzzanco

Gardner, The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping, by Lee Bernstein

Ginzberg, Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman’s Rights in Antebellum New York, by Ellen C. DuBois

Glantz, fdr and the Soviet Union: The President’s Battles over Foreign Policy, by Peter G. Boyle

Goldschmidt and McAlister, eds., Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas, by Robert H. Craig

Gomery, The Coming of Sound: A History, by George Potamianos

Gottlieb, Vallianatos, Freer, and Dreier, The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City, by Philip J. Ethington

Gould and Onuf, eds., Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World, by Colin Bonwick

Graubard, Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush, by John Robert Greene

Grusin, Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks, by Anne F. Hyde

Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s, by Melvin Small

Harvey, Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era, by Anthony B. Pinn

Hempton, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, by E. Brooks Holifield

Horne, Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920, by James N. Leiker

Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, by Liette Gidlow

Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950–1957, by Mark Atwood Lawrence

Jacobs, New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America, by Donna Merwick

Jacobson, Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century, by Paula Petrik

Jones, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, by Ronald L. Lewis

Justice, The War That Wasn’t: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865–1900, by James C. Carper

Kamil, Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots’ New World, 1517–1751, by Carla Gardina Pestana

Kaplowitz, lulac, Mexican Americans, and National Policy, by Zaragosa Vargas

Kay, Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics, by Jennifer Scanlon

Kelly, The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845–1921, by Janet Nolan

Kenney, Jazz on the River, by Kathy Ogren

Kidd, The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism, by Robert M. Bliss

King, The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation, by David M. Reimers

Kramer, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, by Scott D. Gerber

Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, by David Farber

Lambert, James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia, by Lee Ann Caldwell

Lau, ed., From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy, by Robert J. Cottrol

Lazo, Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States, by Robert E. May

Levin, Defining Women’s Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science, by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

Linebaugh, The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America, by Charles E. Orser Jr.

Looker, “Point from which Creation Begins”: The Black Artists’ Group of St. Louis, by Julius E. Thompson

Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America, by Brandon Brame Fortune

Loving, The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, by Kathleen Drowne

Lubin, Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr

Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, by Renqiu Yu

Mackey, Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City’s Committee of Fourteen, 1920–1930, by Peter C. Baldwin

Mancke, The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760–1830, by Marc Egnal

Mapes, A Public Charity: Religion and Social Welfare in Indianapolis, 1929–2002, by Michael Reisch

Maroukis, Peyote and the Yankton Sioux: The Life and Times of Sam Necklace, by Joel W. Martin

Martin, No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics and Postwar America, by Douglas Henry Daniels

Merli, ed. by Fahey, The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War, by Duncan Andrew Campbell

Messer-Kruse, Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931, by Steven Horwitz

Michel, Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964–1969, by Michelle Brattain

Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s, by Nigel Bowles

Missall and Missall, The Seminole Wars: America’s Longest Indian Conflict, by Claudio Saunt

Mitchell, Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction, by Victoria W. Wolcott

Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880–1920, by Arnoldo De León

Mittelstadt, From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965, by Felicia Ann Kornbluh

Mixon, The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City, by Stephen G. N. Tuck

Moon, Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s–1920s, by Anthony W. Lee

Moser, Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism, by Jennifer Delton

Nelson, Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp, by Christopher F. Meindl

Nordin and Scott, From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture, by Michael Johnston Grant

Nudelman, John Brown’s Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War, by Jane E. Schultz

O’Toole, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, by John Milton Cooper Jr.

Oppenheim, Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce’s Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey, by Bruce Kuklick

Outland, Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South, by James E. Fickle

Pacheco, The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac, by Keith P. Griffler

Palladino, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History, by Steven High

Peacock, Watson, and Matthews, eds., The American South in a Global World, by Jon Smith

Powers-Beck, The American Indian Integration of Baseball, by Bruce A. Rubenstein

Pruitt, “A Looking-Glass for Ladies”: American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century, by Rui Yazawa Kohiyama

Quiroz, Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas, by Richard A. Garcia

Raphael-Hernandez, ed., Blackening Europe: The African American Presence, by Wilfried Raussert

Rarick, California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown, by Roger W. Lotchin

Reimers, Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People, by Reed Ueda

Reinharz and Raider, eds., American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise, by Hasia R. Diner

Rei�, Radikalismus und Exil: Gustav Struve und die Demokratie in Deutschland und Amerika (Radicalism and exile: Gustav Struve and democracy in Germany and America), by Walter D. Kamphoefner

Revels, Grander in Her Daughters: Florida’s Women during the Civil War, by Jacqueline Glass Campbell

Rhodes, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture, by Steve Waksman

Ridlon, A Black Physician’s Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D, by Lynn Marie Pohl

Rigg, Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler’s Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Joseph W. Bendersky

Robertson, Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960, by Joel Best

Robins, A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist, by James R. Goff Jr.

Rodriguez, ed., Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community, by Keith Fitzgerald

Rohrer, Hope’s Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry, by Frederick A. Bode

Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South, by Junius P. Rodriguez

Rubin, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868, by Paul D. Escott

Salvatore, Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America, by Keith D. Miller

Schoen, Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, by Jennifer Nelson

Schüler, Frauenbewegung und soziale Reform: Jane Addams und Alice Salomon im transatlantischen Dialog, 1889–1933 (The women’s movement and social reform: Jane Addams and Alice Salomon in transatlantic dialogue, 1889–1933), by Suzanne M. Sinke

Schwartz, Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers, by Dominick A. Pisano

Sensbach, Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World, by Carol V. R. George

Shogan, The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising, by John Hennen

Siddali, From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861–1862, by Michael W. Fitzgerald

Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present, by Eric Avila

Sitton and Conrad, Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow, by Jeannie M. Whayne

Slater, Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962, by Steve Golin

Smoodin, Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930–1960, by John Raeburn

Steenburg, Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635–1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood, by Daniel Scott Smith

Strain, Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era, by Komozi Woodard

Stuckey, Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity, by Louis W. Liebovich

Sweet, Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752, by Steven C. Hahn

Taylor, Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought, by Andrew Feffer

Tomlinson, Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought, by William W. Cutler III

Tripp, ed. by Gannett, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by Matthew Pinsker

Trost, Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City, by Anne Meis Knupfer

Tucker and Russell, eds., Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of Warfare, by Sheldon Ungar

Tushnet, ed., The Constitution in Wartime: Beyond Alarmism and Complacency, by Jonathan Lurie

van Minnen and Hilton, eds., Frontiers and Boundaries in U.S. History, by Andrew R. L. Cayton

Vinovskis, The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, by Harvey Kantor

Volanto, Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal, by David E. Hamilton

Wall, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition, by Kathryne V. Lindberg

Wallenstein and Wyatt-Brown, eds., Virginia’s Civil War, by Michael B. Ballard

Wallenstein, Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia, by John Charles Boger

Ware, It’s One O’Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography, by Mary Desjardins

Watts, ed., Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered, by Richard H. King

Wayne, Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America, by Mary Kelley

White and White, The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, by Helen Bradley Foster

Williams, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, by Ronald E. Butchart

Wills, Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849–1883, by Steven J. Keillor

Wilson, Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors, by Charlotte G. Borst

Wu, Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity, by Huping Ling

Yuhl, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston, by Carl R. Lounsbury