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Volume 32 - Issue 3 - December 1998

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Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in the United States, 1867–1973 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, $29.95). Pp. 387. ISBN 0 520 08848 4.
VIVIEN HART
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Robert A. Ferguson, The American Enlightenment, 1750–1820 (London: Harvard University Press, 1997). Pp. 220. ISBN 0 674 02322 6.
CARL DIMITRI
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Curtis Besinger, Working with Mr. Wright: What It Was Like (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, £45.00 cloth, £15.95 paper). Pp. 313. ISBN 0 521 48122 8, 0 521 58714 X.
DOUGLAS TALLACK
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Deborah Solomon, Utopia Parkway. The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997, $30). Pp. 426. ISBN 0374 180 121.
KATE RHODES
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Theda Skocpol, Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn against Government in U.S. Politics (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996, $27.50). Pp. 230. ISBN 0 393 03970 6.
INDERJEET PARMAR
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Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, $29.95). Pp. 368. ISBN 0 520 20622 3.
FRANK COGLIANO
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A. David Moody, Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit: Essays on His Poetry and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, £14.95). Pp. 195. ISBN 0 521 48060 4.
DANIEL JUPP
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George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, £20.50). Pp. 852. ISBN 0 8018 5506 3.
HUGH BROGAN
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Will Kaufman, The Comedian as Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1977, $39.95). Pp. 272. ISBN 0 8143 2657 9.
FORREST G. ROBINSON
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Dieter Meindl, American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque (London: University of Missouri Press, 1996, £31.95). Pp. 234. ISBN 0 8262 1079 1.
CRAIG MONK
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David A. Horowitz, Beyond Left and Right: Insurgency and the Establishment (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper). Pp. 444. ISBN 0 252 02266 1, 0 252 06568 9.
ANDREW STROUTHOUS
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Jon Michael Spencer, The New Negroes and Their Music: The Success of the Harlem Renaissance (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997, $20.00). Pp. 171. ISBN 0 87049 967 X.
JOHN WHITE
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Peter Wilson, A Preface to Ezra Pound (London and New York: Longman, 1997, £14.99). Pp. 255. ISBN 0582 25867 7.
CLIVE MEACHEN
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Ralph E. Luker, Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement (Lanham, MD., and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1997, £64.60). Pp. 331. ISBN 0 8108 3163 5.
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Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin (eds.), From the Outer World (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1997, £36.50 cloth, £16.50 paper). Pp. 491. ISBN 0 674 32639 3, 0 674 32640 7.
BRIAN R. HARDING
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William M. Banks, Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life (London: W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd., 1997, £22.00). Pp. 335. ISBN 0 393 03989 7.
NICHOLAS PATSIDES
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Bill Brown, The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1996, £29.95 cloth, £15.50 paper). Pp. 335. ISBN 0 674 55380 2, 0 674 55381 0.
IAN F. A. BELL
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Ron Robin, The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995, £24.95). Pp. 217. ISBN 0 691 03700 0.
JENEL VIRDEN
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Robert Justin Goldstein, Desecrating the American Flag: Key Documents of the Controversy from the Civil War to 1995 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper). Pp. 368. ISBN 0 8156 2702 5, 0 8156 2716 5.
NIGEL LEIGH
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J. F. Buckley, Desire, the Self, the Social Critic: The Rise of Queer Performance within the Demise of Transcendentalism (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1997, £25). Pp. 150. ISBN 1 57591 001 2.
SCOTT BRAVMANN
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Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in the United States, 1867–1973 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, $29.95). Pp. 387. ISBN 0 520 08848 4.

Robert A. Ferguson, The American Enlightenment, 1750–1820 (London: Harvard University Press, 1997). Pp. 220. ISBN 0 674 02322 6.

Curtis Besinger, Working with Mr. Wright: What It Was Like (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, £45.00 cloth, £15.95 paper). Pp. 313. ISBN 0 521 48122 8, 0 521 58714 X.

Deborah Solomon, Utopia Parkway. The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997, $30). Pp. 426. ISBN 0374 180 121.

Theda Skocpol, Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn against Government in U.S. Politics (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996, $27.50). Pp. 230. ISBN 0 393 03970 6.

Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, $29.95). Pp. 368. ISBN 0 520 20622 3.

A. David Moody, Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit: Essays on His Poetry and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, £14.95). Pp. 195. ISBN 0 521 48060 4.

George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, £20.50). Pp. 852. ISBN 0 8018 5506 3.

Will Kaufman, The Comedian as Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1977, $39.95). Pp. 272. ISBN 0 8143 2657 9.

Dieter Meindl, American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque (London: University of Missouri Press, 1996, £31.95). Pp. 234. ISBN 0 8262 1079 1.

David A. Horowitz, Beyond Left and Right: Insurgency and the Establishment (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper). Pp. 444. ISBN 0 252 02266 1, 0 252 06568 9.

Jon Michael Spencer, The New Negroes and Their Music: The Success of the Harlem Renaissance (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997, $20.00). Pp. 171. ISBN 0 87049 967 X.

Peter Wilson, A Preface to Ezra Pound (London and New York: Longman, 1997, £14.99). Pp. 255. ISBN 0582 25867 7.

Ralph E. Luker, Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement (Lanham, MD., and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1997, £64.60). Pp. 331. ISBN 0 8108 3163 5.

Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin (eds.), From the Outer World (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1997, £36.50 cloth, £16.50 paper). Pp. 491. ISBN 0 674 32639 3, 0 674 32640 7.

William M. Banks, Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life (London: W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd., 1997, £22.00). Pp. 335. ISBN 0 393 03989 7.

Bill Brown, The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1996, £29.95 cloth, £15.50 paper). Pp. 335. ISBN 0 674 55380 2, 0 674 55381 0.

Ron Robin, The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995, £24.95). Pp. 217. ISBN 0 691 03700 0.

Robert Justin Goldstein, Desecrating the American Flag: Key Documents of the Controversy from the Civil War to 1995 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper). Pp. 368. ISBN 0 8156 2702 5, 0 8156 2716 5.

J. F. Buckley, Desire, the Self, the Social Critic: The Rise of Queer Performance within the Demise of Transcendentalism (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1997, £25). Pp. 150. ISBN 1 57591 001 2.

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