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Volume 42 - Issue 2 - August 2008

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John Fabian Witt, Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 406. isbn978 0 674 02360 4.

Jacqueline Bacon, Freedom's Journal: The First African American Newspaper (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, $29.95). Pp. x+325. isbn9 7807391 1894 8.

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. isbn0 8018 8566 3.

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. isbn0 271 02910 2.

Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: The Penguin Press, 2007, $25.95). Pp. 273. isbn1 59420 122 6.

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. isbn978 0 8071 3221 0.

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. isbn978 0 8223 4033 1.

Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006, £60.00/$99.00). Pp. 202. isbn1 85196 890 3.

Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn't (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007, $24.95). Pp. 233. isbn0 06084 670 4.

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. isbn987 0 271 02978 6.

D. Brauner, Philip Roth (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, £14.24 paper). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 7190 7425 7.

Andrew Warnes, Richard Wright's Native Son (London and New York: Routledge, 2007, £47.40 cloth, £14.24 paper). Pp. 154. isbn978 0 41534 447 0/978 0 415 34448 7.

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. isbn0 674 2349 8/0 67403 068 0.

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. isbn978 0 80188 582 2/978 0 80188 583 9.

Estelle T. Lau, Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion (Hastings: Duke University Press, 2007, £13.99). Pp. 163. isbn978 0 8223 3747 8.

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. isbn0 19 515750 8.

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. isbn83 60269 03 3.

Michele Mendelssohn, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, £65.00). Pp. xiv+310. isbn978 07486 2385 3.

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