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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

AMS volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp f1-f7
doi:10.1017/S002187580999065X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

AMS volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp b1-b9
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990661 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Research Articles

 
 

Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

SIMON P. NEWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 161-175
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990089 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Neoliberalization and Transnational Capitalism in the American Mold

MEL VAN ELTEREN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 177-197
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990016 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Southern Disillusionment with the Democratic Party: Cultural Conformity and “the Great Melding” of Racial and Economic Conservatism in Alabama during World War II

GLENN FELDMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 199-230
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990028 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

“Sailing against the Wind”: A Reappraisal of Edward Kennedy's Campaign for the 1980 Democratic Party Presidential Nomination

TIMOTHY RANDOLPH STANLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 231-253
doi:10.1017/S002187580999003X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

The Conservative Lobby and Nixon's “Peace with Honor” in Vietnam

SANDRA SCANLON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 255-276
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990065 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

“Women of Conscience” or “Women of Conviction”? The National Women's Committee on Civil Rights

HELEN LAVILLE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 277-295
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990077 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

“Sweet Home”: Audre Lorde's Zami and the legacies of American Writing

MONICA B. PEARL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 297-317
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990041 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

“Dens of Iniquity and Holes of Wickedness”: George Lippard and the Queer City

MARY UNGER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 319-339
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990053 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

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Simulacrobama: The Mediated Election of 2008

MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 341-356
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990090 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Ussama Makdisi, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, £19.50). Pp. 262. isbn 10 0 8014 4621 X, isbn 13 978 0 8014 4621 4.

MELANI MCALISTER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 357-359
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990120 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Cynthia J. Van Zandt, Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America 1580–1660 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, $49.95). Pp. 262. isbn 978 0 19 518124 1.

ALISON STANLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 359-360
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990132 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Christopher Clark, Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006, $18.95). Pp. xiii+342. isbn 1 56663 754 6.

BENJAMIN L. CARP

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 361-361
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990144 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Jeannine Marie DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. 344. isbn 0 8078 5812 7.

TREVOR BURNARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 362-362
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

David Welky, Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008, $65.00 cloth, $25.00 paper). Pp. 266. isbn 978 0 252 03299 8, 978 0 252 07504 9.

CHRISTINE PAWLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 362-363
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Anthony J. Stanonis (ed.), Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways and Consumer Culture in the American South (Athens, GA and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2008, $24.95). Pp. 296. isbn 978 0 8203 3169 0.

CHRIS COOPER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 364-364
doi:10.1017/S002187580999017X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Mark C. Carnes (ed.), The Columbia History of Post-World War II America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, £35.50/$60.00). Pp. 544. isbn 978 0 231 12126 2.

ANDREW JOHNSTONE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 365-365
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990181 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Tracey C. Davis, Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007, $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper). Pp. 439. isbn 978 0 8223 3959 5, 978 0 8223 3970 0.

KENNETH OSGOOD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 366-367
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990193 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

George Shulman, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, £46.50 cloth, £15.50 paper). Pp. xxi+315. isbn 0 8166 3074 7, 978 0 8166 3075 2.

PAUL GILES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 367-368
doi:10.1017/S002187580999020X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen (eds.), The American University in a Postsecular Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, $28.00). Pp. 280. isbn 978 0 19 532344 3.

DARRELL EZELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 368-369
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990211 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

David W. Jones, Mass Motorization+Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008, $39.95). Pp. x+268. isbn 978 0 253 35152 4.

MARGARET WALSH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 369-371
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990223 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Michael Coyne, Hollywood Goes to Washington: American Politics on Screen (London: Reaktion, 2008, £16.95). Pp. 229. isbn 978 1 86189 368 0.

IAN SCOTT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 371-372
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990235 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Daniela Rossini, Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy: Culture, Diplomacy, and War Propaganda, trans. Anthony Shugaar (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008, $49.95). Pp. 263. isbn 978 0 674 02824.

FRANK NINKOVICH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 372-374
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990247 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Giles Scott-Smith, Networks of Empire: The US State Department's Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France and Britain, 1950–70 (Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2008, £29.90). Pp. 514. isbn 978 90 5201 256 8.

HUGH WILFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 374-375
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990259 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Michael Lumbers, Piercing the Bamboo Curtain: Tentative Bridge-Building to China during the Johnson Years (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008, £55.00). Pp. x+286. isbn 978 0 7190 7778 4.

BEVAN SEWELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 375-376
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990260 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Richard Gray, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, $34.95). Pp. xii+283. isbn 0 8203 3005 1.

TAYLOR HAGOOD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 376-377
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990272 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Paul Giles, Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, £65.00). Pp. xii+419. isbn 0 19 920633 3.

MATTHEW PETHERS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 377-379
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990284 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

David Haven Blake, Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, £25.00). Pp. xv+251. isbn 0 300 11017 0.

NICK SELBY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 379-380
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990296 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Mark Whalan, Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America: The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2007, $43.00). Pp. 304. isbn 978 1 5723 3580 6.

Mark Whalan (ed.), The Letters of Jean Toomer 1919–1924 (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2006, $38.00). Pp. 296. isbn 978 1 5723 3470 0.

CATHERINE MORLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 380-382
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990302 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Susan Neal Mayberry, Can't I Love What I Criticize? The Masculine and Morrison (Athens, GA and London: University of Georgia Press, 2007, $34.95). Pp. 298. isbn 0 8203 2945 2.

TESSA ROYNON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 382-383
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990314 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Christopher Gair, The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide (Oxford: Oneworld, 2008, £9.99/$14.95). Pp. vi+162. isbn 978 1 85168 542 4.

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 384-384
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990326 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Brian Duffy, Morality, Identity and Narrative in the Fiction of Richard Ford (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008, £59.20). Pp. 368. isbn 978 90 420 2409 0.

DAVID BRAUNER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 385-386
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990338 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

Anthea Kraut, Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, £15.50 paper, £46.50 cloth. Pp. x+312. isbn 978 0 8166 4712 5.

HANNAH DURKIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, pp 386-387
doi:10.1017/S002187580999034X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
 

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Joyce D. Goodfriend, Benjamin Schmidt and Annette Stott (eds.), Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America 1609–2009 (Leiden: Brill, 2008, €99.00/$129.00). Pp. xvii+367. isbn 978 90 04 16368 3.

GILES SCOTT-SMITH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E21
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990351 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Edwin S. Gaustad, Roger Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, £10.99/$17.95). Pp. 140. isbn 13 978 0 19 518369 6, isbn 10 0 19 518369 X.

AMY M. E. MORRIS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E22
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990363 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Eric Wertheimer, Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722–1872 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, £34.95). Pp. 186. isbn 0 8047 5089 0.

IAIN BORROWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E23
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990375 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Sylvia Jenkins Cook, Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, £14.99). Pp. 292. isbn 978 0 19 532781 6.

JANET GREENLEES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E24
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990387 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Jeffery Charleston (ed.), United States Military History 1865 to the Present Day (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006, £110.00). Pp. 534. isbn 978 0 7546 2555 1.

TERRY TERRIFF

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E25
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990399 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, £24.65). Pp. 459. isbn 0 6740 2218 1.

CHERYL HUDSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E26
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990405 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Angela M. Blake, How New York Became American, 1890–1924 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, £33.50). Pp. 224. isbn 0 8018 8293 1.

MARK WHALAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E27
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990417 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Gabrielle Esperdy, Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008, £18.00). Pp. 304. isbn 978 0 226 21800 7.

CARA RODWAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E28
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990429 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Vanessa D. Dickerson, Dark Victorians (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008, £18.99/$35.00). Pp. 135. isbn 978 0 2520 3256 1.

REBECCA COBBY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E29
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990430 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 1850–1935 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006, $22.95). Pp. 332. isbn 978 0 8223 3794 2.

KYMBERLY N. PINDER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E30
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990442 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, £19.99). Pp. 526. isbn 0 19 513674 8.

NICKY CASHMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E31
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Christopher Bonastia, Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, $29.95/£18.95). Pp. 234. isbn 978 0 691 11934 2.

M. J. HEALE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E32
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990466 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Randal Maurice Jelks, African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006, $25.00). Pp. 148. isbn 0 252 07347 9.

NICKY CASHMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E33
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990478 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Beshara Doumani (ed.), Academic Freedom after September 11 (New York: Zone Books, 2006, $21.95). Pp. 327. isbn 1 890951 61 7.

POLINA MACKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E34
doi:10.1017/S002187580999048X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008, $19.95). Pp. 294. isbn 978 0 6911 2639 5.

JASON NARLOCK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E35
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990491 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Moon-Kie Jung, Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, £29.00/$45.00). Pp. xiv+292. isbn 0 231 13534 3.

RICHARD A. HAWKINS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E36
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990508 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Phillip B. Gonzales (ed.), Expressing New Mexico: Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. 319. isbn 978 0 8165 2628 4.

STEPHANIE LEWTHWAITE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E37
doi:10.1017/S002187580999051X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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S. Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris and Vicki L. Ruiz (eds.), The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 366. isbn 978 0 8135 4181 5.

KATE WATSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E38
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990521 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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La Vinia Delois Jennings, Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, £50.00). Pp. 258. isbn 9 780521 885041.

JANINE BRADBURY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E39
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990533 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Donald T. Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007, $27.95). Pp. v+353. isbn 13 978 0 674 02640 9, isbn 10 0674 02620 9.

TOM PACKER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E40
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990545 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Gary R. Hess, Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, £19.99). Pp. xii+218. isbn 978 1 4051 2528 4.

SYLVIA ELLIS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E41
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Ivy Schweitzer, Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (Chapel Hill: North Carolina Press, 2006, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper). Pp. 210. isbn 0 8078 3069 0, 0 8078 5778 5.

AMY M. E. MORRIS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E42
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990569 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Hester Blum, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008, £51.50/$59.95). Pp. xi+271. isbn 978 0 8078 3169 4.

KEVIN J. HAYES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E43
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990570 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Philip Fradkin, Wallace Stegner and the American West (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, $27.50). Pp. 369. isbn 978 1 4000 4391 0.

MEGAN RILEY McGILCHRIST

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E44
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990582 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Daniel Cordle, States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008, £50.00). Pp. 172. isbn 978 0 7190 7712 8.

ADAM KELLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E45
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990594 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Bruce Robbins, Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, £24.95). Pp. xviii+304. isbn 978 0 691 04987 4.

JUDIE NEWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E46
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990600 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Susan Edmunds, Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, $55.00). Pp. 207. isbn 978 0 19 533853 9.

PUNYASHREE PANDA

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E47
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990612 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Marilynne Robinson, Home (London: Virago Press, 2008, £18.99). Pp. 325. isbn 978 1 84408 549 1.

RICHARD H. KING

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E48
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990624 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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Mary M. Morris, The Lost Mother (New York: Penguin Books, 2006, $14.00). Pp. 288. isbn 0 1430 3645 9.

NAZMI AL-SHALABI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 02, August 2009, E49
doi:10.1017/S0021875809990636 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 31 Jul 2009
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