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Pioneering American Studies: Ten Years of the Bulletin, 1956–1966

LOUIS BILLINGTON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 167-185
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004647 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

“Our Nation's Hope Is She”: The Cult of Jessie Fremont in the Republican Campaign Poetry of 1856

DAVID GRANT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 187-213
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004659 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

James Jackson Jarves's Art Criticism: Aesthetic Classifications and Historiographic Consequences

KAREN L. GEORGI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 215-235
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004660 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

The Ruins of Pompey: The Euro-American Invention of Native American Prehistory and the Gothic Mode in Joshua V. H. Clark's Onondaga

DE VILLO SLOAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 237-254
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004672 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Reinhold Niebuhr and Hans Morgenthau: A Friendship with Contrasting Shades of Realism

DANIEL RICE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 255-291
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004684 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

America's “White” Cultural and Sexual Dissensus: The Fictions of Edmund White

TONY PURVIS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 293-316
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004696 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Heinz Insu Fenkl's Memories of My Ghost Brother: An Amerasian Rewriting of Rudyard Kipling's Kim

KUN JONG LEE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 317-340
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004702 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Review Essay

 
 

Religion and Tolerance in US Politics

RICHARD LOCK-PULLAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 341-346
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004714 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

RICHARD H. KING

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 347-353
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004738 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
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Michael Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006, £18.95/$29.95/€25.50). Pp. 542. isbn 0 674 01867 2.

LINCOLN GERAGHTY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 355-356
doi:10.1017/S002187580800474X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Rebecca Beasley, Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, £45.00/$85.00). Pp. xiv+221. isbn 978 0 521 87040 5.

IAN F.A. BELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 356-357
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004751 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

M. Keith Booker, Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2006, £28.99). Pp. viii+274. isbn 0 275 98395 1.

DAVID SEED

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 357-358
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004763 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Thomas C. Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, £22.50/$32.50). Pp. xvi+256. isbn 0 8078 2909 9.

THOMAS RUYS SMITH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 358-358
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004775 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Michelle Burnham, Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007, $30.00). Pp. 222. isbn 1 58465 618 0.

ALISON STANLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 359-359
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004787 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Susan K. Cahn, Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007, £19.95/$29.95). Pp. 375. isbn 978 0 674 02452 6.

SINÉAD MOYNIHAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 359-360
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004799 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Amanda Claybaugh, The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007, $45.00). Pp. xiv+246. isbn 978 0 8014 4480 7.

THERESA SAXON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 360-361
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004805 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Dorothy Sue Cobble (ed.), The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007, $65.00 cloth, $22.50 paper). Pp. xii+327. isbn 978 0 8014 4322 0, 978 0 8014 8943 3.

MARGARET WALSH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 361-362
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004817 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007, £19.95/$35.00). Pp. 278. isbn 978 0 691 12209 0.

BARTON C. SHAW

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 362-363
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004829 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Philip Davis, Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, £18.99). Pp. 399. isbn 9 780 199 27009 5.

DAVID BRAUNER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 363-364
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004830 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Jeffrey A. Engel, Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007, $35.00/£21.80). Pp. xi+351. isbn 0 674 02461 3.

BEVAN SEWELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 364-365
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004842 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Adam Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. xii+533. isbn 0 674 02307 2.

JOHN A. KIRK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 366-366
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004854 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Jane S. Gabin, American Women in Gilded Age London: Expatriates Rediscovered (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006, $39.95). Pp. xvii+196. isbn 0 8130 2914 7.

FIONA VENN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 366-367
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004866 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Jeffrey Geiger, Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the US Imperial Imagination (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007, £40.50). Pp. 303. isbn 0 8248 3066 0.

MATTHEW JONES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 367-368
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004878 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, $25.00). Pp. xv+189. isbn 0 226 29824 8.

ANTHONY HUTCHISON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 368-369
doi:10.1017/S002187580800488X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Risa L. Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (London: Harvard University Press, 2007, £22.95/$35.00). Pp. 376. isbn 978 0 674 02465 6.

Gilbert Jonas, Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909–1969 (London: Routledge, 2007, £12.99/$23.95). Pp. 520. isbn 978 0 415 95665 9.

LEE SARTAIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 369-371
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004891 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Michael K. Honey, Going down the Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007, £22.00). Pp. xvii+617. isbn 0 3930 4339 8.

PETER LING

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 371-371
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004908 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Gene Andrew Jarrett, Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, £31.00/$47.50). Pp. 240. isbn 978 0 8122 3973 7.

KYMBERLY N. PINDER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 372-372
doi:10.1017/S002187580800491X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

David Kennedy and William W. Fisher III (eds.), The Canon of American Legal Thought (Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, £22.95). Pp. 925. isbn 0 691 12000 5.

GEORGE CONYNE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 372-373
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004921 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Michael A. McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (Chapel Hill: published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2007, $45.00). Pp. xviii+544. isbn 978 0 8078 3108 3.

SIMON P. NEWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 373-374
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004933 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Kate McLoughlin, Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, £50.00/$74.95). Pp. 229. isbn 978 0 7190 7636 7.

PHILIP SEIB

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 375-375
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004945 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Peter S. Onuf, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, $49.50 cloth, $19.50 paper). Pp. x+281. isbn 978 0 8139 2578 3, 978 0 8139 2611 7.

FRANK COGLIANO

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 376-376
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004957 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, £15.50). Pp. xvii+321. isbn 0 8078 5678 9.

KATHRYN N. GRAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 377-377
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004969 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

John Louis Recchiuti, Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, $59.95/£39.00). Pp. 311. isbn 978 0 8122 3957 7.

Julie Sze, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2007, £38.95). Pp. x+282. isbn 978 0 262 19554 6.

ERIC HOMBERGER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 378-379
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004970 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, and Erina Duganne (eds.), Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press and Williams College Museum of Art, 2007, $25.00/£13.00). Pp. 216. isbn 0 226 70950 7.

WENDY E. WARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 379-380
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004982 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

J. Simon Rofe, Franklin Roosevelt's Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007, £42.50). Pp. 270. isbn 9 781 40398 073 1.

ANDREW JOHNSTONE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 380-381
doi:10.1017/S0021875808004994 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias (eds.), The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872, two vols. (Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, $185.00). Pp. lxxv+391, xxix+524. isbn 978 0 8032 2584 8, 978 0 8032 2607 4.

DAVID SEED

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 381-383
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005008 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Simon Wendt, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, New Perspectives in the History of the South, 2007, $39.95). Pp. xi+279. isbn 978 0 8130 3018 0.

GEORGE LEWIS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 383-384
doi:10.1017/S002187580800501X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

Cynthia A. Young, Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006, £13.99). Pp. 328. isbn 0 82233 691 X.

DANIEL GEARY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, pp 384-385
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005021 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2008
 

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Bill Anthes, Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, £14.99). Pp. 304. isbn-10 0 8223 3866 1, isbn-13 978 0 8223 3866 6.

DAVID MURRAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E1
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005033 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Jacqueline Bacon, Freedom's Journal: The First African American Newspaper (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, $29.95). Pp. x+325. isbn 9 7807391 1894 8.

CATHERINE ARMSTRONG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E2
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005045 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Kathleen Morgan Barry, Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, $22.95). Pp. 222. isbn 978 0 8223 3946 5.

Drew Whitelegg, Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant (New York: New York University Press, 2007, $20.00). Pp. 245. isbn 978 0 8147 9408 1.

RYAN MURPHY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E3
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005057 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Ruth L. Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, $50.00). Pp. xiv+261. isbn 0 271 02702 9.

DAVID SEED

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E4
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005069 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Kevin L. Borg, Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, $50.00). Pp. viii+249. isbn 978 0 8018 8606 5.

CARROLL PURSELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E5
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005070 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Parley Ann Boswell, Edith Wharton and Film (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007, $45.00). Pp. xiv+220. isbn 0 8093 2757 0.

DAVID SEED

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E6
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005082 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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D. Brauner, Philip Roth (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, £14.24 paper). Pp. 224. isbn 978 0 7190 7425 7.

KENNETH MILLARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E7
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005094 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Deborah Clarke, Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, $25.00). Pp. xii+225. isbn 13 978 0 8018 8617 1.

MARGARET WALSH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E8
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005100 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Carolyn de la Pena and Siva Vaidhyanathan (eds.), Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, £13.50). Pp. viii+437. isbn 978 0 8018 8651 5.

DAVID SEED

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E9
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005112 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell (eds.), Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. vi+304. isbn 0 69112 852 9.

PETER BECKER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E10
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005124 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Cecil D. Eby, Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007, $39.95/£26.50). Pp. xv+510. isbn 0 271 02910 2.

R. A. H. ROBINSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E11
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005136 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Michael W. Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, $24.50/£16.00). Pp. 294. isbn 970 0 231 11513 1.

M. J. HEALE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E12
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005148 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: The Penguin Press, 2007, $25.95). Pp. 273. isbn 1 59420 122 6.

AMARNATH AMARASINGAM

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E13
doi:10.1017/S002187580800515X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed.), Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007, $55.00/£29.50 cloth, $22.95/£12.50 paper). Pp. xii+328. isbn 978 0 8014 4544 6/978 0 8014 4561 3.

LINDA TOOCARAM

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E14
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005161 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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David Greven, Men beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, $69.95). Pp. 294. isbn 1 4039 6911 6.

REBECCA WEIR

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E15
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005173 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Howard Hampton, Born in Flames: Termite Dream, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007, $28.95). Pp. 473. isbn 978 0 674 02317 5.

Takayuki Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, $22.95). Pp. 241. isbn 0 8223 3774 6.

POLINA MACKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E16
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005185 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Charles C. Haynes, Sam Chaltain and Susan M. Glisson, First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, £23.99). Pp. 255. isbn 0 19 515750 8.

ANDREW RADFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E17
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005197 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Marc J. Hetherington, Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007, $22.95). Pp. 176. isbn 978 0 691 12870 2.

JAMES D. BOYS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E18
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005203 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007, $60.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Pp. 368. isbn 0 252 07412 2/0 25203 157 1.

TRICA DANIELLE KEATON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E19
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005215 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006, £60.00/$99.00). Pp. 202. isbn 1 85196 890 3.

JANE KNODELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E20
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005227 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Martha J. Kumar, Managing the President's Message: The White House Communications Operation (PLACE: John Hopkins University Press, 2007, $35.00). Pp. xxxii+345. isbn 978 0 8018 8652 2.

NAJMEH MOHAMMADKHANI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E21
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005239 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Estelle T. Lau, Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion (Hastings: Duke University Press, 2007, £13.99). Pp. 163. isbn 978 0 8223 3747 8.

NICKY CASHMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E22
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005240 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Daniel J. Leab, Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007, £34.67). Pp. 195. isbn 987 0 271 02978 6.

TONY SHAW

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E23
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005252 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, £13.99). Pp. 336. isbn 9780 0 8223 3919 9.

NICK HEFFERNAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E24
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005264 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Leigh E. Schmidt and Mark Valeri (eds.), Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630–1965 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, $24.95). Pp. ix+363. isbn 0 8018 8362 8.

MARTIN HALLIWELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E25
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005276 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Michele Mendelssohn, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, £65.00). Pp. xiv+310. isbn 978 07486 2385 3.

IAN F. A. BELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E26
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005288 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff, A People at War: Civilian and Soldiers in America's Civil Wars (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, £14.99). Pp. nnn+NNN. isbn 978 0 19 51 4654 7.

BOB BUSHAWAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E27
doi:10.1017/S002187580800529X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Geoff Nunberg, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, “New York Times”-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show (Nunberg: Public Affairs, 2006, £10.55). Pp. 272. isbn-10 1586483862, isbn-13 978 1 58648 386 9.

NOAM SCHIMMEL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E28
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005306 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Robert M. Pallitto and G. William Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, £33.50 cloth, £16.50 paper). Pp. 261. isbn 978 0 80188 582 2/978 0 80188 583 9.

JOHN DUMBRELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E29
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005318 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Zeese Papanikolas, American Silence (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 222. isbn 0 8032 3756 1.

HAGAR WESLATI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E30
doi:10.1017/S002187580800532X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Celine Parreñas Shimizu, The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007, $23.95). Pp. 340. isbn 978 0 8223 4033 1.

FELICIA CHAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E31
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005331 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Agata Preis-Smith, Ewa Tuczak, and Marek Paryż (eds.), Mosaics of Words: Essays on the American and Canadian Literary Imagination in Memory of Professor Nancy Burke (Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, 2006, no price given). Pp. 339. isbn 83 60269 03 3.

CRISTINA IVANOVICI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E32
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005343 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn't (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007, $24.95). Pp. 233. isbn 0 06084 670 4.

AMARNATH AMARASINGAM

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E33
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005355 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Sarah Robertson, The Secret Country: Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007, $81.00). Pp. 291. isbn 978 90 420 2140 2.

MICHAEL COLLINS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E34
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005367 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Lee Sartain, Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915–1945 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007, $36.50). Pp. 212. isbn 978 0 8071 3221 0.

JENNY WOODLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E35
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005379 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, £19.95/$29.95). Pp. 207. isbn 0 674 2349 8/0 67403 068 0.

SIMON CUTHBERT-KERR

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E36
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005380 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Ann Stoler (ed.), Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Durham: Duke University Press, American Encounters/Global Interactions, 2006, £16.95). Pp. 472. isbn 0 8223 3724 X.

NICK MONK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E37
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005392 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Peter Swirski (ed.), All Roads Lead to the American City (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. 154. isbn 978 962 209 863 3.

MADELEINE LYES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E38
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005409 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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John Edgar Tidwell and Mark A. Sanders, Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, $35.00). Pp. 383. isbn 0 19 531399 2.

SAIQA QURESHI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E39
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005410 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Mary E. Tierce, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007, £14.99). Pp. viii+179. isbn 0 252 07391 6.

MARGARET WALSH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E40
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005422 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Ian Tyrrell, Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective since 1789 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, £55.00 cloth, £17.99 paper). Pp. 286. isbn 1 40399 367 X, 1 40399 688.

BEVAN SEWELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E41
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005434 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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David van Tassel, with John Vacha, Behind Bayonets: The Civil War in Northern Ohio (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2006, $35.00). Pp. x+125. isbn 0 87338 850 X.

MATTHEW SMITH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E42
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005446 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Jason P. Vest, Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007, $49.95). Pp. xviii+224. isbn 0 275 99171 7.

PAUL WILLIAMS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E43
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Andrew Warnes, Richard Wright's Native Son (London and New York: Routledge, 2007, £47.40 cloth, £14.24 paper). Pp. 154. isbn 978 0 41534 447 0/978 0 415 34448 7.

JAMES MILLER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E44
doi:10.1017/S002187580800546X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Bryan Waterman, Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, £36.50). Pp. 318. isbn 0 8018 8566 3.

MICHAEL J. COLLINS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E45
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005471 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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John Fabian Witt, Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 406. isbn 978 0 674 02360 4.

GEORGE CONYNE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E46
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005483 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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Joshua M. Zeitz, White Ethnic New York Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007, $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper). Pp. 296. isbn 978 0 8078 3095 6, 978 0 8078 5798 4.

JAMES D. BLOOM

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, August 2008, E47
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005495 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008
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