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Book Reviews December 2001, Vol. 88, 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 \|
A	[Top]
Ackland, Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West, by Randel D. Hanson Aldrich, Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America, and the Politics of Secret Service; and Alvarez, Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945, by Heike Bungert Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government, by Mary Beth Norton Allswang, The Initiative and Referendum in California, 1898-1998, by Roger W. Lotchin Alschuler, Law without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes, by David M. Rabban Alvarez, Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945; and Aldrich, Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America, and the Politics of Secret Service, by Heike Bungert Conboy and Andradé, Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam, by Ronald Spector Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000, by William Vance Trollinger Jr. Ayala, American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934, by Gloria García
B	[Top]
Bacino, Reconstructing Russia: U.S. Policy in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1922, by David W. McFadden Barrett, William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism, by Christopher Phelps Basch, Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians, by Jane Turner Censer Baum, The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era, by Daniel E. Sutherland Baxter, Henry Clay the Lawyer, by Jacob Katz Cogan Bloomfield, Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal, by Norman L. Rosenberg Bogue, Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933, by Philip V. Scarpino Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950, by Andrew J. Rotter Bradley, This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place, by Steven E. Woodworth Brewer, From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk Burns, Disturbing the Peace: A History of the Christian Family Movement, 1949-1974, by Betty A. DeBerg
C	[Top]
Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Andreas Reichstein Cassidy, Ferdinand V. Hayden: Entrepreneur of Science, by William H. Goetzmann Cha-Jua, America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915, by Gary W. McDonogh Chen, Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community, by K. Scott Wong Clark, British Clubs and Societies, 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World, by Peter Bailey Clements, Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life, by Jeanne N. Clarke Cochran, America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era, by Winfried Fluck Conboy and Andradé, Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam, by Ronald Spector Conway, The British Isles and the War of American Independence, by Don Higginbotham Cott, Public Vows: History of Marriage and the Nation, by Elaine Tyler May Courtois, Werth, Panné, Paczkowski, Bartosek, and Margolin, trans. by Murphy, ed. and trans. by Kramer, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, by Shane J. Maddock Cross, An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, by Jacqueline Dirks Curtis, The First Black Actors on the Great White Way; and Krasner, Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910, by Thomas Cripps Cushman, Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle, by Brian S. Wills Cutler, Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education, by Julia Grant
D	[Top]
Delaney, Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948, by Leland Ware Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940, by Susan A. Glenn Diggins, On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History, by Daniel Walker Howe Dollinger, Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America, by Michael Alexander Dorn, ed., Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America, by Gary Dorrien Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by Marc Gallicchio Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
E	[Top]
Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin, by Suzanne Smith Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Lance Banning Ellis, The Kentucky River, by Suzanne Marshall Engerman and Gallman, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Vol. 2: The Long Nineteenth Century; and Engerman and Gallman, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Vol. 3: The Twentieth Century, by Jean Rivière
F	[Top]
Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865, by Jean H. Baker Feinman, Citizenship Rites: Feminist Soldiers and Feminist Antimilitarists, by Gerard J. DeGroot Feldstein, Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965, by Eileen Boris Filene, Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music; and Garman, A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen, by Jeffrey Melnick Friedberg, In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy, by Michael Cox Friedman, The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, by Meena Bose Fuller, Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South, by Kurt O. Berends Fuller, Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times, by Thomas F. Gieryn
G	[Top]
Gabaccia, Italy's Many Diasporas, by John W. Briggs Gallicchio, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945, by Brenda Gayle Plummer Garman, A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen, by Jeffrey Melnick and Filene, Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music; Gibson and Donovan, The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy, by Jeffrey J. Safford Gillon, "That's Not What We Meant to Do": Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America, by Edward D. Berkowitz Glenn, Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism, by Leslie Fishbein González, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, by Thomas E. Sheridan Grant, North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era, by David Waldstreicher Gray, New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America, by Erik R. Seeman Green, Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements, by Michael Honey Groneman, Nymphomania: A History, by Regina Morantz-Sanchez
H	[Top]
Hall, Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Trujillos, by Cary Fraser Hall, William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South, by Dewey W. Grantham Halliwell, Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks, by David Depew Henderson, Housing & the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams; and Vale, From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors, by Judith Ann Trolander Hochgeschwender, Freiheit in der Offensive?: Der Kongreß für kulturelle Freiheit und die Deutschen (Freedom on the offensive?: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Germans); and Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, by Paul Buhle Horne, Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois, by Axel R. Schäfer Hulsey, Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics, by Anna Kasten Nelson Huston, Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York, by Jamie Bronstein
I	[Top]
Iber, Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999, by David A. Sandoval Ingersoll, Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819, by Robert L. Paquette
J	[Top]
Jackall and Hirota, Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy, by Charles McGovern Jackson, New Jerseyans in the Civil War: For Union and Liberty, by Michael Barton Jennings, The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire, by Peter C. Mancall
K	[Top]
Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War; and McNamara, Blight, and Brigham, with Biersteker and Schandler, Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy, by Sayuri Shimizu Karabell, The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election, by Franklin D. Mitchell Kasson, Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History, by L. G. Moses Kersten, Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46, by Alex Lichtenstein Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States; and Kornbluh, Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics, by J. Morgan Kousser Kornbluh, Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics, by J. Morgan Kousser and Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States Kosak, Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905, by Daniel Bender Krasner, Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910, by Thomas Cripps and Curtis, The First Black Actors on the Great White Way; Krugler, The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953; and Puddington, Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, by Christopher Simpson
L	[Top]
Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era, by Klaus Larres Lauck, American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980, by Douglas W. Allen Lee, Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office, by Michele H. Bogart Lee, Defining New Yorker Humor, by Ian Gordon Lehmkuhl, Pax Anglo-Americana: Machtstrukturelle Grundlagen anglo-amerikanischer Asien- und Fernostpolitik in den 1950er Jahren (Pax Anglo-Americana: Structural foundations of Anglo-American, Asian, and Far Eastern policy in the 1950s), by Helge Pharo Litwicki, America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920, by Thomas M. Spencer
M	[Top]
MacMillan, Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1924, by Michael A. Amundson Markel, Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892, by Susan Craddock McNamara, Blight, and Brigham, with Biersteker and Schandler, Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy; and Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War, by Sayuri Shimizu Meadows, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present, by F. Todd Smith Melzer, Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in New Mexico, 1933-1942, by Donald C. Swain Mindell, War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor, by Stanley Sandler More, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995, by Naomi Rogers Morris, The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War, by Lyde Cullen Sizer Mullenix, Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage, by Bruce McConachie Murray, Indian Giving: Economies of Power in Indian-White Exchanges, by Nancy L. Hagedorn
N, O	[Top]
Nasstrom, Everybody's Grandmother and Nobody's Fool: Frances Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle for Social Justice, by Spencie Love O'Gorman, Accomplished in All Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874, by John Davis O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean, by J. R. McNeill Olien and Olien, Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry, by Mark H. Lytle
P, Q	[Top]
Parker and Cole, eds., Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America, by Carolyn J. Lawes Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930, by Michael M. Topp Pendergast, Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950, by Erin A. Smith Phelan, Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor, by Richard Schneirov Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England, by Nancy Shoemaker Pleasants, Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds, by Charles W. Eagles Plitt, Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business; and Willett, Permanent Waves: The Making of the AmericanBeauty Shop, by Nan Enstad Powell, Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance, by Mark Bauerlein Puddington, Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty; and Krugler, The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953, by Christopher Simpson
R	[Top]
Rafael, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, by Kenton Clymer Randall, America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois, by Robert Fishman Ratcliffe, The Politics of Long Division: The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio, 1818-1828, by Mark Voss-Hubbard Ravitch, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, by William W. Cutler III Reed, "All the World Is Here!" The Black Presence at White City, by Spencer Crew Reverby, ed., Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, by Edward T. Morman Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860, by Jonathan H. Earle Rivers, Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation, by Randolph B. Campbell Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930, by Anders Stephanson Rudgers, Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947, by Nick Cullather
S	[Top]
Sampson Vera Tudela, Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750, by Carroll L. Riley Sanneh, Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa, by Claude A. Clegg III Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters; and Hochgeschwender, Freiheit in der Offensive?: Der Kongreß für kulturelle Freiheit und die Deutschen (Freedom on the offensive?: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Germans), by Paul Buhle Schwartz, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, by Jim Cullen Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South, by Michael P. Johnson Schwartz, Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000, by David T. Beito Schweiger, The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia, by Anne M. Boylan Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, by Richard Butsch Sinha, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, by Anthony Gene Carey Smith, Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines, by Barbara Foley Smith, Opposition beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists, and Containment, 1945-1953, by Ralph B. Levering Smith, Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940, by Brian W. Dippie Speicher, The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers, by Bret E. Carroll Stamm, People of the Wind River: The Eastern Shoshones, 1825-1900, by Gary Clayton Anderson Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century, by Wanda M. Corn Steward, Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri, by Edward E. Baptist Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II, by Terry Anderson Storrs, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era, by Georgina Hickey Strouthous, U.S. Labor and Political Action, 1918-24: A Comparison of Independent Political Action in New York, Chicago, and Seattle, by Ruth O'Brien
T, U, V	[Top]
Turner, A Genealogy of Queer Theory, by Susan Henking Underwood, Allen Tate: Orphan of the South, by Paul V. Murphy Valdés, Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century, by F. Arturo Rosales Vale, From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors; and Henderson, Housing & the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams, by Judith Ann Trolander Van Sant, Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80, by Gary Y. Okihiro Venkatesh, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto, by Alexander von Hoffman
W, X, Y, Z	[Top]
Ward, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations, by Susan E. Oehler Warde, George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation: 1843-1920, by Mary Young Warren, Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning, by Jared N. Day Wickman, The Tree That Bends: Discourse, Power, and the Survival of the Maskókî People, by Robert L. Gold Widder, Battle for the Soul: Métis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission, 18231837, by Susan E. Gray Willett, Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop; and Plitt, Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business, by Nan Enstad Willis, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War, by Robert C. Kenzer Wilson, Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America, by Claire Bond Potter Wood, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865, by Jane Rhodes