Book Reviews
Dec. 2006, Vol. 93 No. 3

[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 |

Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875–1920, by Michael Willrich

Allmendinger, Imagining the African American West, by Gerald R. Butters Jr.

Anthony, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior, by Gerald Horne

Aron, American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State, by Michael Cassity

Ashby, With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830, by Richard Butsch

Baker, Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America, by Jonathan M. Chu

Baldwin, Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky’s Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America, by Thomas H. Appleton

Ballenger, Self, Senility, and Alzheimer’s Disease in Modern America: A History, by Gerald N. Grob

Barr, ed., The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750–1850, by Larry L. Nelson

Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor, by Bruce Cohen

Berkowitz, Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies, by Yanek Mieczkowski

Berman, Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery, by Eve Allegra Raimon

Bigham, On Jordan’s Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley, by Cheryll Ann Cody

Blaufarb, Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835, by Thomas N. Ingersoll

Bolton, The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870–1980, by J. Todd Moye

Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68, by James R. Ralph Jr.

Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, by Gaines M. Foster

Busto, King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina, by (Vernon) Carl Allsup

Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, by Daniel P. Barr

Carmichael, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion, by Christopher J. Olsen

Carretta, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, by G. Ugo Nwokeji

Carroll, The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796–1996, by John Dumbrell

Carter, Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800–1865, by Angela Boswell

Chan, ed., Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era, by Mae Ngai

Clark, Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863–1913, by Scot French

Colaiaco, Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July, by William B. Rogers

Connerly, “The Most Segregated City in America”: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980, by Arnold R. Hirsch

Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia, by Peniel E. Joseph

Crowther-Heyck, Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, by James H. Capshew

Daniels, One O’Clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils, by Burton W. Peretti

Donovan, White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917, by Leslie Fishbein

Douglas, Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865–1954, by Barry M. Franklin

Druks, John F. Kennedy and Israel, by Peter L. Hahn

Dublin and Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century, by Richard P. Mulcahy

Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform, by C. Elizabeth Raymond

Duncombe and Mattson, The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York, by Samantha Barbas

Edwards, Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express, by Melani McAlister

Eisenmann, Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965, by Nancy Woloch

Engel, Poor People’s Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1945, by David T. Beito

Estes, The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture, by Robert W. Smith

Faragher, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland, by Gordon T. Stewart

Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered, by Ada Ferrer

Farrow, Lang, and Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, by Joanne Pope Melish

Feldman, ed., Politics and Religion in the White South, by Douglas Carl Abrams

Fermaglich, American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965, by Henry L. Feingold

Frasca, Benjamin Franklin’s Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America, by Charles E. Clark

Fried, The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America, by Walter A. Friedman

Gaines, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era, by Brenda Gayle Plummer

Gerber, Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century, by William E. Van Vugt

Gidlow, The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s–1920s, by Gayle Gullett

Giffin, African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915–1930, by Joe William Trotter Jr.

Gobat, Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule, by Paul J. Dosal

Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity, by Clive Webb

Good, A Search for Unity in Diversity: The “Permanent Hegelian Deposit” in the Philosophy of John Dewey, by Thomas C. Dalton

Gordon and Inscoe, eds., Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas, by Robert E. Bonner

Graham, Young Activists: American High School Students in the Age of Protest, by Alexander Bloom

Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire, by Tom Chaffin

Greene, Fort Randall on the Missouri, 1856–1892, by Jeffrey Ostler

Grier, Pets in America: A History, by Susan D. Jones

Guenther, “Rememb’ring our Time and Work is the Lords”: The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier, by Jack D. Marietta

Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850, by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

Horowitz, Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation, by Harvey Levenstein

Horton and Horton, eds., Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, by Alfred L. Brophy

Hufbauer, Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory, by Barbara Franco

Hulsebosch, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830, by Roger H. Brown

Jackson, Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation, by Judith Richardson

Jackson, Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education, by Kevin M. Kruse

Jacobson, Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America, by John D. Buenker

Johnson, Congress and the Cold War, by Jeffery C. Livingston

Jung, Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement, by Jonathan Y. Okamura

Karabel, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, by William J. Reese

Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, by LeRoy Ashby

Kennedy, Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston’s Urban Slave Society, by Stephanie Camp

Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South, by Lorri Glover

Kerstetter, God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West, by Randi J. Walker

Kimble, Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda, by Allan M. Winkler

Kirsch, Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving, by J. Samuel Walker

Kleinberg, Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880–1939, by Beverly Stadum

Knupfer, The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women’s Activism, by Davarian L. Baldwin

Krainz, Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines, by Sharon Delmendo

Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, by Robert A. Strong

Lambert, “If the Workers Took a Notion”: The Right to Strike and American Political Development, by Timothy J. Minchin

Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South, by Raymond A. Mohl

Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970, by Margaret Pugh O’Mara

Lee, The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900–1950, by Mark T. Banker

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vol. I: Journalist, 1706–1730, by Kerry S. Walters

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Frankin, vol. II: Printer and Publisher, 1730–1747, by Kerry S. Walters

Leuchtenburg, The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, by Dan T. Carter

Liebersohn, The Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacific, by Barry Gough

Lindenmeyer, The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s, by Julia Grant

Lippy, Do Real Men Pray? Images of the Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant America, by Dane Claussen

Luria, Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C., by Donald R. Kennon

Lyons, Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830, by Lee V. Chambers

Mancini, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours, by Bruce P. Frohnen

Mart, Eye on Israel: How America Came to View Israel as an Ally, by John Snetsinger

Mason, Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900, by Glenn Hendler

McCartney, Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the Rise of American Imperialism, by Louis A. Pérez Jr.

McClure, Earnest Endeavors: The Life and Public Work of George Rublee, by David M. Esposito

McCrady, Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands, by Richmond L. Clow

McDonald, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Military Academy: Founding West Point, by James L. Morrison Jr.

McFarland and Roll, Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years, by Andrew D. Grossman

McKibben, Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915–1999, by Nancy C. Carnevale

McKnight, Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why, by Anna K. Nelson

Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, by Stephen J. Whitfield

Messer, Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America, by Jonathan M. Beagle

Mickenberg, Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, by Robert C. Cottrell

Milford, The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career, by Mary Lou Lustig

Monaco, Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer, by Mark I. Greenberg

Moore, Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880–1920, by Christopher Waldrep

Morgan, Planters’ Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia, by William Warren Rogers Jr.

Moskowitz, Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America, by Eileen Boris

Murray, ed., Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era, by Rebecca S. Montgomery

Nashel, Edward Lansdale’s Cold War, by Walter L. Hixson

Neely, The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era, by Charles W. Calhoun

Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, by Jeff Broadwater

Pfau, The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln, by Stephen E. Maizlish

Priest, Global Gambits: Big Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese, by Paul A. Tiffany

Raeburn, A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography, by F. Jack Hurley

Reese, America’s Public Schools: From the Common School to ‘No Child Left Behind’, by Don T. Martin

Robertson, The Dream of Civilized Warfare: World War I Flying Aces and the American Imagination, by W. David Lewis

Rucker, The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America, by Douglas R. Egerton

Rymph, Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right, by Francesca Morgan

Saul, Friends or Foes? The United States and Soviet Russa, 1921–1941, by David C. Engerman

Sayre, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh, by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick

Schwartz, The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life, by Melissa R. Klapper

Sherman and Nardin, Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11, by Kevin Mattson

Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War, by Jeanie Attie

Smith, Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880–1950, by Catherine Ceniza Choy

Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786–1859, by Daniel J. Gelo

Sotiropoulos, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America, by Scott A. Newman

Soyer, ed., A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in New York City’s Garment Industry, by Daniel Katz

Stockley, Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas, by Greta de Jong

Stoler, Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940–1945, by James Jay Carafano

Stromquist, Reinventing “The People”: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism, by Dominic A. Pacyga

Taaffe, Commanding the Army of the Potomac, by Ethan S. Rafuse

Tate, Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails, by Robert Carriker

Taylor, The Divided Family in Civil War America, by Lesley J. Gordon

Tilchin and Neu, eds., Artists of Power: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Their Enduring Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy, by Frank Ninkovich

Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898, by David Healy

Townsend, Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Van Vugt, British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700–1900, by R. Douglas Hurt

Vecchio, Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America, by Caroline Waldron Merithew

Venet, A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary A. Livermore, by Sylvia D. Hoffert

Ward, George Washington’s Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army, by Gregory T. Knouff

Wergland, One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793–1865, by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe

West, The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Westbrook, Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth, by George Cotkin

Wested, The Global Cold War, by H. W. Brands

White, Holding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy toward Africa, 1953–1961, by James H. Meriwether

Wooster, Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West, by William A. Dobak