Book Reviews
December 1997, Vol. 84, No. 3

[Table of Contents]

Alphabetical by Book Author's Last Name

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 |

Apple, Vitamania, by Harvey Levenstein

Ashton, Eisenhower, Macmillan, and The Problem of Nasser, by Nur Bilge Criss

Atkins, Parties, Politics, and The Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861, by John C. Inscoe

Batinski, Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor, by Thomas W. Jodziewicz

Bentonville and Sears, Chancellorsville, by William Garrett Piston

Bernardi, ed., The Birth Of Whiteness; and Rhincs, Black Film/ While Money, by Sarah Laslett

Berrol, The Empire City, by Roger Wunderlich

Bilstein, The American Aerospace Industry, by W. David Lewis

Blotner, Robert Penn Warren, by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Bodenhamer and Barrows, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, by Charles N. Glaab

Boyd, People of the Dalles, by Michael Harkin

Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War, by Stanley Shapiro

Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs, by Joan R. Gunderson

Brundage, ed., Under Sentence of Death; and Moses, ed., Lynching and Vigilantism in the United States, by Barry A. Crouch

Bukowczyk, ed., Polish Americans and Their History, by James S. Pula

Bunting, The Pacific Raincoast, by Richard W. Judd

Burns, Inventing the Modern Artist, by Robert Muccigrosso

Bussiere, (Dis)Entitling the Poor, by Mark Tushnet

Cannon, Remaking the Agrarian Dream, by David E. Hamilton

Carlson, Empire Builder in The Texas Panhandle, by David G. McComb

Cave, The Pequot War, by Timothy D. Hall

Clegg, An Original Man; Magicla, Prophet of Rage; and Tate, Little X, by John T. McCartney

Cripps, Hollywood's High Noon, by Gregory D. Black

Davis, A Way through the Wilderness, by W. Stitt Robinson

Dening, Performances, by Craig Calhoun

Diggins, Max Weber, by Mark C. Smith

Din and Harkins, The New Orleans Cabildo, by Stephen Webre

Duffy, Lincoln's Admiral; and Hearn, Admiral David Dixon Porter,
by Frank Lawrence Owsley Jr.

Dunn, An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South, by Stephen V. Ash

Edwards, The Closed World, by Ken Alder

Ellis, American Sphinx; and Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, by Robert A. Rutland

Emmons, Alleged Sex and Threatened Violence, by Keith P. Dyrud

Evans, Sherman's Horsemen; and Leslie, The Devil Knows How to Ride, by Michael C. Adams

Fadely, Thomas Taggart, by Thomas R. Pegram

Feldman, Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas, by John M. Mulder

Fisher, Saving San Antonio, by James M. Lindgren

Flein and Selden, eds., Living with the Bomb, by Michael L. Krenn

Fleischner, Mastering Slavery, by Melton McLaurin

Foreman, ed., The Other Fifties, by Christin J. Mamiya

Foster, Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768, by James Drake

Frazier and Publishing Office, eds., Many Nations, by William I Hagan

Fye, American Cardiology, by Rosemary Stevens

Galema, Frisians to America, 1880-1914, by Suzanne M. Sinke

Ginsberg, ed., Passing and the Fictions of Identity, by Leila J. Rupp

Giunta and Hattgrove, eds., The Emerging Nation, by Frederick W. Marks III

Glenn, Thomas K. Beecher, by P. C. Kemeny

Graham arid Diamond, The Rise of American Research Universities, by John R. Thelin

Graham, Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy, by Kathryn Kish Sklar

Gross, Broken Promise; and Galenson, The American Labor Movement, 1955-1995, by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Gurock and Schacter, A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community, by Mark K. Bauman

Haines, Against Capital Punishment, by David W. Levy

Hall, Cultures of Print, by Ronald J. Zboray

Hambrick-Stowe, Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism, by Curtis D. Johnson

Harkin, The Heiltsuks, by Douglas Cole

Harwit, Air Exhibit Denied, by Patricia Mooney-Melvin
 

Herbst, The Once and Future School, by Nancy Beadie

Hill, Dallas, by Alan Lessoff

Hinderaker, Elusive Empires, by R. Douglas Hurt

Hine, Speak Truth to Power, by David C. Rankin

Hinks, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren, by Peter Kolchin

Hirshson, The White Tecumseh, by Larry J. Daniel

Hoopes and Brinkley, FDR and the Creation of the UN, by Wilson D. Miscamble, C. S.C.

Hosoya, Homma, Iriye, and Hatano, eds., Taieheiyo senso (The Pacific war), by Roger Dingman

Hunnicutt, Kellogg's Six-Hour Day, by Daniel Nelson

Hurup, ed., The Lost Decade, by Edward P. Morgan

Hyde, Pistols and Politics, by Edward E. Baptist

Hynes, The Soldiers' Tale, by Craig M. Cameron

Irwin, Against the Tide, by Thomas W. Zeiler

Jenkins, Hoods and Shirts, by Kathleen M. Bice

Johansen and Grinde, The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, by Clara Sue Kidwell

Johnpoll, ed., A Documentary History of the Communist Party of the United States, Vol. 1: Gestation and Birth, 1918-1928, vol. 2: Tod and Trouble, 1928-1933; vol. 3: Unite and Fight, 1934-1935; vol. 4: People's Front, 1935-1937, vol. 5: Twentieth- Century Americanism, 1937-1939; vol. 6: The Yanks Are Not Coming, 1939-1941; vol. 7: The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; vol. 8: The Party Is Over 1946-1992, by James R. Barrett

Johnson and Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias, by Bret E. Carroll

Johnson, The Occupation of Alcatraz Island, by Ward Churchill

Juravich, Hartford, and Green, Commonwealth of Toil, by Robert Macieski

Kav, Asphalt Nation, by Richard 0. Davies

Kilmer, The Fear of Sinking, by Richard Weiss

Knupfer, Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood, by Virginia Kent Anderson Leslie

Koistinen, Beating Plowshares into Swords, by David F. Trask

Kranakis, Constructing a Bridge, by Elizabeth Brand Monroe

Kruman, Between Authority & Liberty, by John W. Larner

Kwasny, Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783, by Stuart Leibiger

Lasby, Eisenhower's Heart Attack, by Robert S. Robins

Lavergne, A Sniper in the Tower, by Lewis L. Gould

Leidholdt, Standing before the Shouting Mob, by John W. Cell

Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage, by Kimberley L. Phillips

Lewis, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow, by James Gilbert

Lian, The Conversion of Missionaries; and Flynt and Berkley, Taking Christianity to China, by Kathleen L. Lodwick

Light, Rome and the New Republic, by Andrew Greeley

Lindley, "You Have Slept Out of Your Place,"  by Lois A. Boyd

Looby, Voicing America; and Newfield, The Emerson Effect, by Robert A. Gross

Lynd, ed., "We Are All Leaders," by Colette A. Hyman

Marsh and Ronner, The Empty Cradle, by Judy Barrett Litoff

Marvel, The Alabama & the Kearsarge, by Chester G. Hearn

McMillen, ed., Remaking Dixie, by Roger W. Lotchin

McPherson, For Cause and Comrades; and Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle, by Cad J. Guarner's

Michalek, Pod banderami Unii I Konfederacji (Under Union and Confederate flags), by Michael J. Rozbicki

Miller, Here's the Deal, by Robert W. Snyder

Millet, Lincoln's Abolitionist General, by Edwin S. Redkey

Moise, Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War, by Fredrik Logevall

Morton, Justice and Humanity, by Edward A. Stettner

Moskin, Mr. Truman's War, by Marc Gallicchio

Muscio, Hollywood's New Deal, by William Park

Nash, The Life of Herbert Hoover. Master of Emergencies, 1917-1918, by Kendrick A. Clements

Neuse, David E. Lilienthal, by Michael V. Namarato

Orde, The Eclipse of Great Britain, by Thomas C. Howard

Øverland, The Western Home, by I. Kenneth Smemo

Pauketat and Emerson, eds., Cahokia, by Jon Muller

Pfaelzer, Parlor Radical, by Myra C. Glenn

Plotke, Building a Democratic Political Order, by John W. Jeffries

Pohlmann and Kirby, Racial Politics at the Crossroads, by Roderick N. Ryon

Poirier, Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-1940, by Elizabeth Fee

Portes, De la scène à l'écran (From the stage to the screen), by Lawrence Birken

Quinlan, Walker Percy, by Nancy L. Roberts

Radford, Modern Housing for America, by Theodore Rosenof

Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime, by David J. Garrow

Reese, The Origins of The American High School, by Eileen H. Tamura

Renehan, The Secret Six, by Merton L. Dillon

Rising, Clean for Gene, by David Steigerwald

Robertson, Guilty Measures, by Ann Douglas

Rosenof, Economics in The Long Run, by Elmus Wicker

Rossignol, Le ferment nationalism (Nationalist ferment), by Peter P. Hill

Ruby and Brown, John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church, by Robert H. Keller

Rutland, The Republicans, by Craig Lloyd

Rybczynski, City Life, by John D. Buenker

Schloff, "And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher,"  by Deborah Dash Moore

Searles, The Peace Corps Experience, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Sherwood, Officers in Flight Suits, by Roger G. Miller

Shindo, Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination, by Judy Kutulas

Shorter, A History of Psychiatry, by Ellen Herman

Smith, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired, by Vern L. Bullough

Snapp, John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier, by Bruce E. Johansen

Sorin, Tradition Transformed, by Henry L. Feingold

Sprague, ed., His Promised Land; and Collison, Shadrach Minkins, by Graham Russell Hodges

Taylor, America's Bachelor Uncle, by Kerry S. Walters

Thelen, Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television, by Bruce J. Schulman

Thomas, American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract, by Lester G. Lindley

Tiedemann, Reluctant Revolutionaries, by Simon P. Newman

Tracy, Direct Action, by Robert Cohen

Trask, Defender of the Public Interest, by Richard S. Kirkendall

Tucker and Reuter, Injured Honor, by William Fowler

Underhill, FDR and Harry, by Robert L. Messer

Vander, Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion, by Howard L. Harrod

Wailoo, Drawing Blood, by Elizabeth W. Etheridge

Walch, Parish School, by Mary J. Oates

Wellenreuther and Wessel, eds., Herrnhuter Indianermission in der Amerikanischen Revolution (The Moravian Indian Mission during the American Revolution), by Elizabeth A. Kellel

Williams, The Way We Ate, by Paula Mitchell Marks

Wills, Democratic Religion, by Beth Barton Schweiger

Wills, John Wayne's America, by Richard White

Winship, Seers of God, by Marilyn J. Westerkamp

Yui, Nichibei senso-kan no sokoku (Conflicts in Japanese and American views on war), by Mikiso Hane