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Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02

Journal of American Studies seeks to critique and interrogate the notion of "America", pursuing this through international perspectives on the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States. The Journal publishes original peer-reviewed research and analysis by established and emerging scholars throughout the world, considering US history, politics, literature, institutions, economics, film, popular culture, geography, sociology and related subjects in domestic, continental, hemispheric, and global contexts. Its expanded book review section offers in-depth analysis of recent American Studies scholarship to promote further discussion and debate. The journal is intended not only for students and scholars, but also for general readers with an interest in the United States. NEW ADDRESS FOR REVIEW BOOKS Please note that all review copies of books for the Journal of American Studies should now be sent to: Professor Scott Lucas Department of American and Canadian Studies University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT W.S.Lucas@bham.ac.uk America,Empire of Liberty - BBC Radio 4 Editor Susan Castillo took part in the first of BBC Radio 4's series America, Empire of Liberty - visit the BBC website here .

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

Research Articles
LOUIS BILLINGTON,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 167-185

Abstract
The Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies (1956 66) provided a valuable platform for many British pioneers in the study of American history, politics and literature, and laid the ground for a more professional and permanent American studies journal when the field had become well established in this country. Here I have both attempted to analyse the Bulletin's content and commented on the professional background and intellectual interest of its contributors, including the very limited number of women whose work appeared in its pages.

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

Research Articles
DAVID GRANT,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 187-213

Abstract
Representations of Jessie Fremont, the wife of the Republican presidential candidate in 1856, had a prominent role in the campaign poetry of that year. The Jessie poems bind the period's cult of domesticity to the party's figurative anti-slavery system. According to these poems, Northerners intent on conciliating the Slave Power were spreading their own sterility, whereas men willing to make a home for Jessie in the White House were reproducing, through their own redemption, a future free West. The code of domesticity thus helped these poems to define collective political action as growing out of the strengths of free labor.

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

Research Articles
KAREN L. GEORGI,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 215-235

Abstract
Looking at the methodological principles and rhetorical forms that structure James Jackson Jarves's often-cited 1864 book The Art-Idea, this essay reconsiders Jarves's role in the historiography of American art. Jarves has long been associated with post-Civil War shifts toward international aesthetic trends, which eroded the native bias in favor of verisimilitude and anecdote. He is thought to mark a turning point. His texts, however, only partially corroborate the reputation. Here, firstly, I reread Jarves's art theory to suggest what were the aesthetic preferences he hoped to foster among Americans, and why. Secondly, I propose that the reputed Jarves fulfills an apparently unrecognized need in the subdiscipline of American art history a fundamental understanding of American art as automatically, necessarily, indexical. It is primarily a manifestation of American culture, and more specifically American culture as defined by change, growth, disruption, reintegration.

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

Research Articles
DE VILLO SLOAN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 237-254

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In the United States between the approximate dates of 1800 and 1870, a group of writers whom I call Romantic Antiquarians invented and disseminated a narrative of Native American prehistory radically at odds with the later findings of modern archaeologists. Romantic Antiquarian discourse borrows from the themes and modes of literary Romanticism, and textual analysis of this work (which enjoyed widespread public acceptance before it was profoundly discredited) offers insights into the complex relationship between Native and Euro-American cultures. This essay provides an overview of the Romantic Antiquarian movement and explores its ideology. The writing of antiquarian Joshua V. H. Clark of New York is examined closely, including his theories concerning the Iroquois, his relationship with E. G. Squier, and his use of the Gothic mode.

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

Research Articles
DANIEL RICE,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 255-291

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Reinhold Niebuhr's had a favorable and lasting impact on the eminent political theorist Hans J. Morgenthau. The two men developed a lasting friendship and, on Morgenthau's lead, came to oppose America's war in Vietnam. This article explores the relationship between Niebuhr and Morgenthau, giving special attention to the role of Niebuhr's theology in shaping his own version of political realism. The dialectical relation between love and justice that gave Niebuhrian realism its distinctive quality and differentiated Niebuhr from realists such as Morgenthau and George Kennan is also examined. Finally, the unresolved problem that fellow realist Kenneth Thompson saw in Niebuhr's dialectic is considered.

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

Research Articles
TONY PURVIS,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 293-316

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This essay examines the representation of sexuality and identity in the fictions of American novelist Edmund White. Gay sexuality and identity politics are discussed in relation to the discourse of American identity, and whiteness. White's output is shaped and informed by the cultural, historical and political circumstances which have conditioned how gay male sexuality has been discursively shaped over the last forty years. Yet his work has been inflected by theorizations of sexuality which have called into question the very specificity of a homosexual and/or gay identity. Who is White's audience today, and who wants to read a boy's story anyway?

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

Research Articles
KUN JONG LEE,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 317-340

Abstract
Heinz Insu Fenkl's Memories of My Ghost Brother is an Amerasian rewriting of Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Fenkl transforms the adventures of a white boy in colonial India into those of an Amerasian boy in post-/neocolonial Korea and changes the Russo-British rivalry of the nineteenth-century Great Game into the Russo-/Communist American competition of the twentieth-century Cold War. He resurrects the native voice silenced by colonial discourse and highlights the dilemma of Asian women and their biracial children. He ultimately denounces the troubling legacy of the US military presence in Korea and critiques the centuries-old Western imperialist project in Asia.

Religion and Tolerance in US Politics

Review Articles
RICHARD LOCK-PULLAN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 341-346

Abstract

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Review Articles
RICHARD H. KING,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 347-353

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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.

Book Reviews
LINCOLN GERAGHTY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 355-356

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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.

Book Reviews
IAN F.A. BELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 356-357

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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.

Book Reviews
DAVID SEED,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 357-358

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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.

Book Reviews
THOMAS RUYS SMITH,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 358-358

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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.

Book Reviews
ALISON STANLEY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 359-359

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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.

Book Reviews
SINÉAD MOYNIHAN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 359-360

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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.

Book Reviews
THERESA SAXON,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 360-361

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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.

Book Reviews
MARGARET WALSH,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 361-362

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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.

Book Reviews
BARTON C. SHAW,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 362-363

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

Book Reviews
DAVID BRAUNER,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 363-364

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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.

Book Reviews
BEVAN SEWELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 364-365

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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.

Book Reviews
JOHN A. KIRK,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 366-366

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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.

Book Reviews
FIONA VENN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 366-367

Abstract

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.

Book Reviews
MATTHEW JONES,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 367-368

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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.

Book Reviews
ANTHONY HUTCHISON,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 368-369

Abstract

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.

Book Reviews
LEE SARTAIN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 369-371

Abstract

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.

Book Reviews
PETER LING,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 371-371

Abstract

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.

Book Reviews
KYMBERLY N. PINDER,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 372-372

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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.

Book Reviews
GEORGE CONYNE,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 372-373

Abstract

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.

Book Reviews
SIMON P. NEWMAN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 373-374

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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.

Book Reviews
PHILIP SEIB,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 375-375

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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.

Book Reviews
FRANK COGLIANO,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 376-376

Abstract

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.

Book Reviews
KATHRYN N. GRAY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 377-377

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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.

Book Reviews
ERIC HOMBERGER,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 378-379

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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.

Book Reviews
WENDY E. WARD,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 379-380

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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.

Book Reviews
ANDREW JOHNSTONE,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 380-381

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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.

Book Reviews
DAVID SEED,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 381-383

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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.

Book Reviews
GEORGE LEWIS,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 383-384

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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.

Book Reviews
DANIEL GEARY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp 384-385

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
DAVID MURRAY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E1

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
CATHERINE ARMSTRONG,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E2

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
RYAN MURPHY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E3

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
DAVID SEED,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E4

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
CARROLL PURSELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E5

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Web Reviews Parley Ann Boswell, Edith Wharton and Film (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007, $45.00). Pp. xiv+220. isbn 0 8093 2757 0.

Book Reviews
DAVID SEED,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E6

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Web Reviews D. Brauner, Philip Roth (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, £14.24 paper). Pp. 224. isbn 978 0 7190 7425 7.

Book Reviews
KENNETH MILLARD,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E7

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Web Reviews 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.

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MARGARET WALSH,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E8

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
DAVID SEED,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E9

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Web Reviews 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.

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PETER BECKER,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E10

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Web Reviews 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.

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R. A. H. ROBINSON,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E11

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
M. J. HEALE,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E12

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Web Reviews Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: The Penguin Press, 2007, $25.95). Pp. 273. isbn 1 59420 122 6.

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AMARNATH AMARASINGAM,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E13

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
LINDA TOOCARAM,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E14

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Web Reviews 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.

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REBECCA WEIR,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E15

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Web Reviews 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.

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POLINA MACKAY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E16

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Web Reviews 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.

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ANDREW RADFORD,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E17

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Web Reviews 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.

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JAMES D. BOYS,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E18

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Web Reviews 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.

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TRICA DANIELLE KEATON,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E19

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Web Reviews Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006, £60.00/$99.00). Pp. 202. isbn 1 85196 890 3.

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JANE KNODELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E20

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Web Reviews 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.

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NAJMEH MOHAMMADKHANI,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E21

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Web Reviews 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.

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NICKY CASHMAN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E22

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Web Reviews 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.

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TONY SHAW,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E23

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Web Reviews 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.

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NICK HEFFERNAN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E24

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Web Reviews 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.

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MARTIN HALLIWELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E25

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Web Reviews Michele Mendelssohn, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, £65.00). Pp. xiv+310. isbn 978 07486 2385 3.

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IAN F. A. BELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E26

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Web Reviews 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.

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BOB BUSHAWAY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E27

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Web Reviews 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.

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NOAM SCHIMMEL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E28

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Web Reviews 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.

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JOHN DUMBRELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E29

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Web Reviews Zeese Papanikolas, American Silence (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 222. isbn 0 8032 3756 1.

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HAGAR WESLATI,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E30

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Web Reviews 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.

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FELICIA CHAN,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E31

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Web Reviews 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.

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CRISTINA IVANOVICI,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E32

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Web Reviews 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.

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AMARNATH AMARASINGAM,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E33

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Web Reviews 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.

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MICHAEL COLLINS,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E34

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Web Reviews 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.

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JENNY WOODLEY,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E35

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Web Reviews 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.

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SIMON CUTHBERT-KERR,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E36

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Web Reviews 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.

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NICK MONK,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E37

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Web Reviews 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.

Book Reviews
MADELEINE LYES,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E38

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Web Reviews 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.

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SAIQA QURESHI,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E39

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Web Reviews 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.

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MARGARET WALSH,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E40

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Web Reviews 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.

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BEVAN SEWELL,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E41

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Web Reviews 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.

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MATTHEW SMITH,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E42

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Web Reviews 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.

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PAUL WILLIAMS,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E43

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Web Reviews 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.

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JAMES MILLER,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E44

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Web Reviews 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.

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MICHAEL J. COLLINS,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E45

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Web Reviews 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.

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GEORGE CONYNE,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E46

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Web Reviews 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.

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JAMES D. BLOOM,
Journal of American Studies, Volume 42 Issue 02 , pp E47

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