Book Reviews
March 2008, Vol. 94 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 |

Binkley, Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s, by Elana Levine

Blanke, Hell On Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America’s Car Culture, 1900–1940, by Christopher W. Wells

Brown, ed., Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, by Wayne K. Durrill

Burton, The Age of Lincoln, by Edward J. Blum

Butler, Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform, by Murney M. Gerlach

Campbell, The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms, by Richard Kaplan

Capper, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life; The Public Years, by David M. Robinson

Carter, The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr

Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820–1880, by Dedra McDonald Birzer

Cash, Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse: A Life in Medicine and Public Service (1754–1846), by Ben Mutschler

Clarke, Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, by Bruce E. Seely

Clifford and Wilson, eds., Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays Honoring Robert H. Ferrell, by David Clinton

Coleman, American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study, by Richard J. Altenbaugh

Cook, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965, by Richard Striner

Cook-Lynn, New Indians, Old Wars, by Barton H. Barbour

Diggins, Eugene O’Neill’s America: Desire under Democracy, by Brenda Murphy

Dirck, Lincoln the Lawyer, by William D. Pederson

Duncan, Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Dunn, Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia, by Brian Steele

Emerson, The Madness of Mary Lincoln, by Gerald N. Grob

Estes, Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out, by David K. Johnson

Etulain, Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West, by Matthew W. Klingle

Fearon, Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Feingold, “Silent No More”: Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967–1989, by Mark K. Bauman

Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, by John Edward Grenier

Fogleman, Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America, by Stephen L. Longenecker

Forbes, The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America, by Dennis K. Boman

Freehling, The Road to Disunion, vol. 2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861, by Mark E. Neely Jr.

Gac, Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform, by Michael P. Young

Gamber, The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America, by Jane Weiss

Gardner and Young, eds., Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past, by Joseph A. Fry

Gasman, Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund, by Jean Preer

Glaude, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, by Scott L. Pratt

Godfrey, Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907–1921, by Gene A. Sessions

Gray, The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler, by Edward Watts

Green, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle, by Stephen Sandford Estes Jr.

Haake, The State, Removal, and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620–2000, by George Pierre Castile

Hariman and Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, by Bruce Bustard

Harris, Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency, by Stephen L. Hansen

Hay and Sicherman, eds., Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, by E. Timothy Smith

Henderson, A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States, by John C. Pinheiro

Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, by David Hochfelder

Hickman, The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870–1920, by Janet Farrell Brodie

Higonnet, Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism in American History, by Eldon J. Eisenach

Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920, by David Steigerwald

Horne, The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War, by Daniel S. Margolies

Jelks, African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids, by Lillian Serece Williams

Johnson, A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign, by Allan Peskin

Johnson, Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West, by Matthew W. Klingle

Johnson, The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900–1950, by George A. Lévesque

Jordan, Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820–1865, by Jean R. Soderlund

Jung, The Black Hawk War of 1832, by Michael L. Tate

Kelsey, Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850–1890, by Mark Rice

Kidd, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000, by Jon Sensbach

Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, by Mart Stewart

Klapper, Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925, by H. Mark Wild

Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America, by Lisa D. Brush

Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, by Catherine L. Albanese

Kupperman, The Jamestown Project, by Warren R. Hofstra

Landsberg, Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, by Peyton McCrary

Larson, Gall: Lakota War Chief, by Bruce E. Johansen

Lau, Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion, by Xiaojian Zhao

Leab, Orwell Subverted: The cia and the Filming of Animal Farm, by Ron Robin

Lee, From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, by James Colgrove

Leighninger, Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration, by Diane Ghirardo

Lenthall, Radio’s America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture, by Clifford J. Doerksen

Leonard, The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II, by Heather Fryer

Lewis, ed., American Wilderness: A New History, by Richard Judd

Lienesch, In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by John P. Jackson Jr.

Logan, Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson, by Douglas E. Kupel

Longaker, Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America, by Jennings L. Wagoner Jr.

McBride, Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer, by Bruce W. Eelman

McCool, Olson, and Robinson, Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote, by Joy Porter

McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, by Robert M. Collins

McGowan, American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time, by H. W. Brands

McKenna, The World’s Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century, by Albert Churella

McShane and Tarr, The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century, by D. Scott Molloy Jr.

Melosi and Pratt, eds., Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, by Harold L. Platt

Melton, A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism, by Julius H. Bailey

Miller, Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls’ Organizations in America, by Melissa R. Klapper

Mitchell, The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry, by Robert E. Wright

Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes, by Susan D. Jones

Neckerman, Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education, by Jonathan Zimmerman

Neely, The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line, by Kristen T. Oertel

Nelson and Sheriff, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War, 1854–1877, by James Schwartz

O’Donovan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South, by Mark Roman Schultz

Opler, For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City’s Department Store Unions, 1934–1953, by Minna P. Ziskind

Papas, That Ever Loyal Island: Staten Island and the American Revolution, by Thomas J. Humphrey

Petty, Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920, by Judith H. Raftery

Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans, by Huping Ling

Pinheiro, Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War, by Mary Ellen Rowe

Postel, The Populist Vision, by Gregg Cantrell

Pryor, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through His Private Letters, by Richard B. McCaslin

Rogers, A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction, by Ted Tunnell

Rothman, Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks, by Dayle C. Hardy-Short

Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians, by Paul Otto

Settje, Lutherans and the Longest War: Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964–1975, by Perry Bush

Simon, Holzer, and Vogel, eds., Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum, by Brian R. Dirck

Sklar and Stewart, eds., Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation, by Shirley J. Yee

Slap, The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era, by Robert F. Engs

Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, by James T. Campbell

Smith, River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain, by Gregg Camfield

Smith, The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice, by Douglas A. Sweeney

Smith, “Something on My Own”: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929–1956, by Susan Ware

Smith, African American Environmental Thought: Foundations, by David Turley

Statler, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam, by Matthew Jones

Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century, by John Prados

Taslitz, Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789–1868, by Daniel Wilson Hamilton

Taylor, If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Junius P. Rodriguez

Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, by Cathleen D. Cahill

Tone and Watkins, eds., Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, by Gregory J. Higby

Unrau, The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855, by Brad Agnew

Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show, by Richard W. Etulain

Waters and Conaway, eds., Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, by Jacqueline Bacon

Weiner, Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Victor I. Silverman

Weisenfeld, Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949, by Jill Watts

Will de Chaparro, Death and Dying in New Mexico, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa

Wilson, The Women’s Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920–30, by Kyle E. Ciani

Witt, Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law, by Lucy E. Salyer

Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, by Marty D. Matthews

Xu, Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949–1979, by Andrew L. Johns

Zeitz, White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics, by R. Fred Wacker

Zellar, African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation, by Tiya Miles