Journal of American Studies: Volume 45 - 10 Years After 9/11

Stephen G. Rabe, John F. Kennedy: World Leader (Washington, DC: Potomac Books Inc., 2010, £46.08 cloth, £14.45 paper). Pp. xc+249. isbn978 1 59797 147 8, 978 1 59797 148 5.
BEVAN SEWELL
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The Ascent of the Falling Man: Establishing a Picture's Iconicity
ROB KROES, MILES ORVELL, ALAN NADEL
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Why is it that some photographs have a power of epic concentration, condensing larger moments in history into one iconic image? This piece about the photography of 9/11 addresses this question. Its focus is on one photograph in particular, Richard Drew's image of the Falling Man. Central to the argument is the awareness of a paradox: to explore something quintessentially photographic – the force of images that give them iconic power – using a medium for reflection and communication that is inherently non-photographic: i.e. language. The author aims at accounting for the fascination of Drew's image, in a struggle to find words to describe its impact. To that end he looks at how others – the photographer himself, and other creative minds, in essay form, fiction or graphic novels – have translated their fascination into language that may help us account for the way this image continues to haunt us.

Molly Rogers, Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010, £28.50). Pp. 451. isbn978 0 300 11548 2.
ELEANOR HIGHT
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15 November 2011, E56
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James Peacock, Understanding Paul Auster (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010, £35.50/$39.95). Pp. 264. isbn157 0 0386 43. - Tom Theobald, Existentialism and Baseball: The French Philosophical Roots of Paul Auster (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010, £65.00). Pp. 288. isbn978 3 8383 4896 4. - Andreas Hau, The Implosion of Negativity: The Poetry and Early Prose of Paul Auster (Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, 2010, £25.90/€25.00). Pp. 324. isbn978 3 8391 4432 9.
NIGEL RODENHURST
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15 November 2011, E65
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Donna Jean Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010, $65.00). Pp. 312. isbn978 0 8078 3376 6.
GERALD HORNE
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15 November 2011, E61
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Michael L. Ondaatje, Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, $34.95). Pp. 220. isbn978 0 8122 4206 5.
GREGORY D. SMITHERS
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15 November 2011, E68
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Jennifer Rae Greeson, Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2010, £29.95). Pp. 356. isbn978 0 674 02428 1.
RICHARD GRAY
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15 November 2011, E59
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Stuart Burrows, A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839–1945 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010, $24.95). Pp. 287. isbn978 0 8203 3521 6.
CAROLINE BLINDER
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15 November 2011, E55
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Conference Report: “Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, American Studies in Russia: Mutual Representations,” 16–17 February 2011, Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow
DAVID AYERS
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Philip C. Kolin (ed.), Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010, £37.95). Pp. 213. isbn978 0 7864 4167 9.
SINÉAD MOYNIHANS
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15 November 2011, E67
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Exclusive Online Reviews - Carrie Pitzulo, Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, $25.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 226 67006 5.
JOANNA BOURKE
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Anthony B. Pinn, Caroline F. Levander, and Michael O. Emerson (eds.), Teaching and Studying the Americas: Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, £55.00). Pp. vi+296. isbn978 0 230 61512 0.
PAUL GILES
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15 November 2011, E71
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Jesús Velasco, Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices behind the Throne (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, £28.50). Pp. 320. isbn978 0 8018 9549 4.
MARIA RYAN
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15 November 2011, E63
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Bernd Herzogenrath, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2010, $39.95). Pp. 352. isbn978 1 58465 933 4.
MICHAEL COLLINS
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15 November 2011, E54
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Mark Goble, Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, $40.00/£27.50). Pp. 374. isbn978 0 231 14670 8.
ALEX GOODY
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15 November 2011, E57
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Samuel Otter, Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, £21.21/$35.00). Pp. iii+396. isbn978 0 1953 9592 1.
WYN KELLEY
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David B. Magleby and Anthony Corrado (eds.), Financing the 2008 Election (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2011, £21.99/$32.95). Pp. 341. isbn978 0 8157 0332 7.
DEAN MCSWEENEY
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15 November 2011, E69
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Brian Ireland, The US Military in Hawai‘i: Colonialism, Memory, and Resistance (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, $80.00). Pp. xix+262. isbn978 0 230 22782 8.
SCOTT LADERMAN
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15 November 2011, E62
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Steven Lubet, Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, $29.95). Pp. 327. isbn978 0 674 04704 4.
LYDIA PLATH
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Xiaojian Zhao, The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2010, $23.95). Pp. 208. isbn978 0 8135 4692 6.
JUDY TZU-CHUN WU
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Stephen G. Rabe, John F. Kennedy: World Leader (Washington, DC: Potomac Books Inc., 2010, £46.08 cloth, £14.45 paper). Pp. xc+249. isbn978 1 59797 147 8, 978 1 59797 148 5.

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Molly Rogers, Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010, £28.50). Pp. 451. isbn978 0 300 11548 2.

Donna Jean Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010, $65.00). Pp. 312. isbn978 0 8078 3376 6.

Michael L. Ondaatje, Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, $34.95). Pp. 220. isbn978 0 8122 4206 5.

Jennifer Rae Greeson, Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2010, £29.95). Pp. 356. isbn978 0 674 02428 1.

Stuart Burrows, A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839–1945 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010, $24.95). Pp. 287. isbn978 0 8203 3521 6.

Conference Report: “Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, American Studies in Russia: Mutual Representations,” 16–17 February 2011, Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow

Philip C. Kolin (ed.), Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010, £37.95). Pp. 213. isbn978 0 7864 4167 9.

Exclusive Online Reviews - Carrie Pitzulo, Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, $25.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 226 67006 5.

Anthony B. Pinn, Caroline F. Levander, and Michael O. Emerson (eds.), Teaching and Studying the Americas: Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, £55.00). Pp. vi+296. isbn978 0 230 61512 0.

Jesús Velasco, Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices behind the Throne (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, £28.50). Pp. 320. isbn978 0 8018 9549 4.

Bernd Herzogenrath, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2010, $39.95). Pp. 352. isbn978 1 58465 933 4.

Mark Goble, Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, $40.00/£27.50). Pp. 374. isbn978 0 231 14670 8.

Samuel Otter, Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, £21.21/$35.00). Pp. iii+396. isbn978 0 1953 9592 1.

David B. Magleby and Anthony Corrado (eds.), Financing the 2008 Election (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2011, £21.99/$32.95). Pp. 341. isbn978 0 8157 0332 7.

Brian Ireland, The US Military in Hawai‘i: Colonialism, Memory, and Resistance (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, $80.00). Pp. xix+262. isbn978 0 230 22782 8.

Steven Lubet, Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, $29.95). Pp. 327. isbn978 0 674 04704 4.

Xiaojian Zhao, The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2010, $23.95). Pp. 208. isbn978 0 8135 4692 6.

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