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Richard S. Tedlow. The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding Father and Son. New York: Harper Business, 2003. x + 340 pp. ISBN 0-06-001405-9, $26.95 (cloth); 0-06-001406-7, $15.95 (paper). - Kevin Maney. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-471-41463-8, $29.95 (cloth); 0-471-67925-9, $16.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 184-189
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Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83466-X, $60.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 749-751
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Doug Henwood. After the New Economy. New York: New Press, 2003. ix + 269 pp. ISBN 1-56584-770-9, $24.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 353-355
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Rob Schorman. Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 224 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3728-5, $35.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 536-538
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Barry Shank. A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-231-11878-3, $50.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 538-540
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Neil Dahlstrom and Jeremy Dahlstrom. The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xix + 204 pp. ISBN 0-87580-336-9, $24.00
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 751-753
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Neil Lanctot. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3807-9, $34.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 189-191
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Sarah Elvins. Sales and Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920–1940. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. 222 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1549-2, $42.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 540-541
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Richard J. Orsi. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. ISBN 0-520-20019-5, $29.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 753-755
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Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. New York: One World (Ballantine Book), 2004. xv + 320 pp. ISBN 0-345-45347-6, $24.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 192-194
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Michael Augspurger. An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4204-4, $34.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 542-544
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Douglas Brinkley. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003. New York: Viking, 2003. xxii + 858 pp. ISBN 0-670-03181-X, $34.95. - Max Wallace. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. 465 pp. ISBN 0-312-29022-5, $27.95
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 755-758
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Carlos Rufin. The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry: Shifting Currents. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2003. xiii + 226 pp. ISBN 1-84376-203-X, $90.00.
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Lisa Jacobson. Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-231-11388-9, $35.00 (cloth).
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H. Roger Grant. “Follow the Flag”: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. xii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-87580-328-8, $49.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 544-546
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Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak, eds. Consuming Motherhood. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. ix + 323 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3429-1, $62.00 (cloth); 0-8135-3430-5, $22.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 760-762
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Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway. Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. xviii + 172 pp. ISBN 0-534-61303-9, $25.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 546-548
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Jennifer Mittelstadt. From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2922-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5587-1, $19.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 762-764
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Glenn Adamson. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. ISBN 0-262-01207-3, $45.00 (cloth); 0-944110-81, $25.00 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 548-550
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