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Book Reviews Sept. 2006, Vol. 93 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 \|

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Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy, by Charles F. Hobson Aiken, Idaho’s Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885–1981, by Duane A. Smith Allison, Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779–1820, by Wade G. Dudley Anderson, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875, by Brian DeLay Anderson, Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947–1956, by James B. Bennett
B	[Top]
Bailey, Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865–1900, by Wallace D. Best Baker, Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists, by Rebecca J. Mead Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier, by James Taylor Carson Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons, by Bernard F. Dick Barrett, The cia and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy, by Sean Malloy Beck, The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854, by Andrew Denson Beekman, William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult, by Eckard V. Toy Jr. Belknap, The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953–1969, by Ronald Kahn Berger, Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture, by Bridget T. Heneghan Berlin and Harris, eds., Slavery in New York, by Julie Winch Beyan, African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm and the American Civilizing Efforts, by Eric Burin Biesen, Blackout: World War II and the Origin of Film Noir, by Eric Schaefer Boisseau, White Queen: May French-Sheldon and the Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity, by Bonnie G. Smith Bokovoy, The San Diego World’s Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880–1940, by Richard V. Francaviglia Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights, by Simon Payaslian Bowling and Kennon, eds., Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800, by James M. Banner Jr. Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, by Anne S. Lombard Brown, The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929, by Harvey Green Budney, William Jay: Abolitionist and Anticolonialist, by Richard S. Newman Burin, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society, by Claude A. Clegg III Burns, To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955–1968, by James A. Colaiaco
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Carroll, Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance, by Kenneth W. Warren Chapin, Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity, by Bret E. Carroll Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century, by Diana Davids Hinton Cimprich, Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory, by Dwight T. Pitcaithley Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, by William Kauffman Scarborough Crosby, A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, by Joseph Crespino
D	[Top]
Dallas, 1945: The War that Never Ended, by Justin Hart Daniel, Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South, by Gerald Markowitz Davis and Robertson, eds., Virginia at War, 1861, by Jeffrey W. McClurken de la Teja and Frank, eds., Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers, by Charles R. Cutter Delfino and Gillespie, eds., Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, by Bess Beatty Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life, by Michael Tadman Doerksen, American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age, by William Howland Kenney Duncan, Citizens or Papists? The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685–1821, by Frank Cogliano
E	[Top]
Eimers, Preu�en und die usa 1850 bis 1867: Transatlantische Wechselwirkungen (Prussia and the usa 1850 to 1867: transatlantic interactions), by Thomas Adam
F	[Top]
Fehrenbach, Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America, by Heike Bungert Ferguson, The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance, by Anne Elizabeth Carroll Fogelson, Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930, by Michael H. Ebner Foote, Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City, by Thomas J. Davis Franz, Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile, by Ronald R. Kline Füssl, Deutsch-amerikanischer Kulturaustausch im 20. Jahrhundert: Bildung-Wissenschaft-Politik (German-American cultural exchange in the 20th century: Education-science-politics), by Ronald J. Granieri
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Gambone, The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society, by Judy Barrett Litoff Garb, City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919, by Amanda Irene Seligman Gemme, Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity, by Adam-Max Tuchinsky Gillette, Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City, by Karen Ferguson Godshalk, Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations, by Gregory Michael Dorr Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Frederick J. Blue Goosman, Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues, by Jeffrey Melnick Gould, The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate, by Daniel Wirls Graham, Unguarded Gates: A History of America’s Immigration Crisis, by Andrew Gyory Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, by Matthew C. Whitaker
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Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links, by Dylan C. Penningroth Halliwell, The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture, by Robert Booth Fowler Hansen, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, by Martin J. Collins Harvey, Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act, by Karl Jacoby Heaton, The Shoshone-Bannocks: Culture and Commerce at Fort Hall, 1870–1940, by Andrew Denson Holl, From the Boardroom to the War Room: America’s Corporate Liberals and fdr’s Preparedness Program, by Michael Augspurger Holm, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans & Whites in the Progressive Era, by Daniel Cobb Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, by Douglas Deal
I	[Top]
Ingersoll, To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals, by David J. Silverman Isenberg, Mining California: An Ecological History, by James J. Rawls Israel, Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870–1925, by James P. Byrd Jr.
J	[Top]
Johnson, Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City, by Markus Dirk Dubber Jordan-Lake, Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe, by Barbara Hochman
K	[Top]
Kalman, Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations, by Paul Lyons Kaye, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, by John P. Kaminski Kierner, Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America, by Annette Gordon-Reed Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890–2000, by Gregg A. Mitman Kisatsky, The United States and the European Right, 1945–1955, by James F. Tent Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, by Maureen A. Flanagan Koistinen, Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945, by Ellis W. Hawley Kripal and Shuck, eds., On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture, by Sarah M. Pike Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, by Jeff Roche Kurilla, Zaokeanskie partnery: Amerika i Rossiia v 1830–1850-e gody (Transoceanic partners: America and Russia from the 1830s through the 1850s), by J. Dane Hartgrove
L	[Top]
Larkin, Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution, by Matthew Rainbow Hale Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform, by Michael D. Pierson Lause, Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community, by Christopher Clark Lavi, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthenasia in the United States, by Michael A. Flannery Lewis, Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century, by David T. Courtwright Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, by Luther James Adams Luconi and Tintori, L’ombra lunga del fascio: Canali di propaganda fascita per gli “italiani d’America” (The long shadow of fascism: Channels of fascist propaganda for “Italian Americans”), by Fraser M. Ottanelli
M	[Top]
Mann, George Washington’s War on Native America, by David Dixon Matovina, Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present, by Anthony Quiroz McCune, “The Whole Wide World Without Limits”: International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893–1930, by Joyce Antler Milkis and Mileur, eds., The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism, by Michael K. Brown Mills, Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial, by Christopher A. Thomas Mobley, “War Governor of the South”: North Carolina’s Zeb Vance in the Confederacy, by Russell Duncan Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America, by Ruth Wallis Herndon Morgan, Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America, by Sandra D. Harmon Morgan and Rushton, Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: The Formation of the Criminal Atlantic, by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida, by R. Bruce Stephenson Myers, Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War, by David F. Ericson
N	[Top]
Nadel, Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity, by Steven D. Classen
O	[Top]
O’Neill, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century, by Donald L. Parman O’Neill, Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History, by Charles A. Lofgren Olson, Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities, by Ellen Baker
P	[Top]
Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, by Richard A. Greenwald Parson, Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles, by John F. Bauman Patel, Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933–1945, by Olaf Stieglitz Patterson, Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895–1915, by Lois Rudnick Paul, Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856, by Durwood Ball Portnoy, Their Right to Speak: Women’s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates, by Mary Hershberger Powers, Mark Twain: A Life, by Robert Middlekauff Prushankin, A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, by Michael B. Dougan
R	[Top]
Richards, Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860–1900, by Theodore Corbett Righter, The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism, by Donald J. Pisani Roberson, Fighting the Good Fight: The Story of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865–1977, by David L. Chappell Rosen, Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery, by Michael A. Bernstein Rosenberg, How Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam, by Charles P. Henry Rountree, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown, by Margaret Holmes Williamson Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, by Phillip Drennon Thomas
S	[Top]
Salerno, Sister Societies: Women’s Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America, by Debra Gold Hansen Sanders, While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War, by Michael P. Gray Schmidt, Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality, by Charles H. Lippy Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, by Gilles Vandal Seixas, ed., Theorizing Historical Consciousness, by Peter N. Stearns Shaw, The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America’s Vietnam War, by Andrew L. Johns Shimada, Senso to Imin no Shakaishi: Hawai Nikkei Amerikajin no Taiheiyo Senso (A social history of war and immigrants: Japanese immigrants’ experiences in Hawaii during World War II), by Daqing Yang Silverman, Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1600–1871, by Hilary E. Wyss Sioli, Esploranda la nazione. Alle origini del’ espansionismo Americano (Exploring the nation. On the origins of American expansionism), by Evan Haefeli Solinger, Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America, by Janet Golden Stahr, John Jay: Founding Father, by Terence Ball Starnes, Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina, by Thomas Weiss Steigerwald, Culture’s Vanities: The Paradox of Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World, by Daniel Horowitz
T	[Top]
Turner, Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance, by Mark I. Helbling Tyrrell, Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890–1970, by Ron Robin
V	[Top]
Verkruyse, Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch: The Rhetorical Leadership of Alexander Campbell, by Charles Hambrick-Stowe Vermaas, Sequoia: The Heralded Tree in American Art and Culture, by Michael P. Cohen
W	[Top]
Wagner, The Poorhouse: America’s Forgotten Institution, by Ruth Crocker Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, by Owen S. Ireland Walker, Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment, by Peter S. Carmichael Walker, No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans, by Paul Lachance Ward, River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War, by Lonnie E. Maness Warren, The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795–1870, by Roger L. Nichols Watson and Martin, eds., “There She Is, Miss America”: The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America’s Most Famous Pageant, by Catherine Cocks Weiner, Lake Effects: A History of Urban Policy Making in Cleveland, 1825–1929, by Robert G. Barrows Weitz, More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army, by Mary A. DeCredico Wetherington, Plain Folk’s Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia, by Kenneth W. Noe Whalen and Vázquez-Hernández, eds., The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives, by John H. Stinson-Fernández Whitaker, Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West, by Kevin Mulroy Whites, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South, by Joan E. Cashin Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, by Michael F. Holt Wolcott, Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890–1940, by David S. Tanenhaus Wright, The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance, by Carl Lane
Y	[Top]
Young, Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier, by Caroline Cox