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Volume 32 - Issue 2 - August 1998

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Book Reviews

Iwan W. Morgan, Deficit Government: Taxing and Spending in Modern America (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, The American Ways Series, 1996, £9.50 paper). Pp. 212. ISBN 1 56663 082 7.
JOHN KILLICK
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Christopher Shannon, Conspicuous Criticism, Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in American Social Thought, from Veblen to Mills (Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, £31.50). Pp. 211. ISBN 0 8018 5151 3.
INDERJEET PARMAR
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Paolo Palladino, Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America 1885–1985 (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 1996). Pp. 201. ISBN 3 7186 5907 7.
THOMAS R. DUNLAP
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Gregory D. Sumner, Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996). Pp. 272. ISBN 0 8014 3020 8.
HUGH WILFORD
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Carl A. Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, £11.95). Pp. 288. ISBN 0 8071 2099 5.
HELEN TAYLOR
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George E. Paulsen, A Living Wage for the Forgotten Man: The Quest for Fair Labor Standards 1933–1941 (Selingsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses Inc., 1995, £32.50). Pp. 228. ISBN 0 945636 91 1.
PETER FEARON
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Edward M. Burns and Ulla E. Dydo with William Rice (eds.), The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, £25.00 cloth). Pp. 452. ISBN 0 300 06774 7.
BRIAN JARVIS
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Tim Armstrong (ed.), American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. £27.00 cloth, £14.95 paper). Pp. 212. ISBN 1 87075 753 4, 1 85075 790 9.
GEORGE MCKAY
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Elizabeth Brayer, George Eastman: A Biography (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, $39.95). Pp. 637. ISBN 0 8018 5263 3.
PETER RAWLINGS
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Jonathan D. Hill (ed.), History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas 1492–1992 Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996, £30.95 cloth, £14.95 paper). Pp. 277. ISBN 0 87745 546 5, 0 87745 547 3.
NIKOLAI JEFFS
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Rob Kroes, If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall: Europeans and American Mass Culture (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996, $27.50 cloth, $13.95 paper. Pp. 195. ISBN 0 252 06352 8.
WALTER HÖLBING
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Lloyd L. Brown, The Young Paul Robeson: “On My Journey Now” (Boulder, Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, 1997, $24.00). Pp. 186. (ISBN 0 8133 3178 1.
JOHN WHITE
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Stanley I. Kutler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (New York: Scribners, 1996, $99). Pp. 711. ISBN 0 13 276932 8.
ALASDAIR SPARK
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Susan J. Rosowski (ed.), Cather Studies, Volume 3, (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, £42.75). Pp. 303. ISBN 0 8032 3920 3.
R. W. (HERBIE) BUTTERFIELD
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Yoshinobu Hakutani, Richard Wright and Racial Discourse (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996, £27.95). Pp. 312. ISBN 0 8262 1059 7.
SUSAN CASTILLO
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David Plotke, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Pp. 388. ISBN 0 521 42059 8.
NATHAN ABRAMS
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Lesley Marx, Crystals out of Chaos: John Hawkes and the Shapes of the Apocalypse (London: Associated University Presses, 1997, £32.50). Pp. 244. ISBN 0 8386 3661 6.
SCOTT BRAVMANN
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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917–1994 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995). Pp. 275. ISBN 0 8135 2449 0.
JOHN DUMBRELL
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Russell Reisling, Loose Ends: Culture and Crisis in the American Social Text (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996). Pp. 374. ISBN 0 8223 1887 3.
SUSAN CASTILLO
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Neil Levine, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996). ISBN 0 691 03371 4.
DAVID K. ADAMS
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Iwan W. Morgan, Deficit Government: Taxing and Spending in Modern America (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, The American Ways Series, 1996, £9.50 paper). Pp. 212. ISBN 1 56663 082 7.

Christopher Shannon, Conspicuous Criticism, Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in American Social Thought, from Veblen to Mills (Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, £31.50). Pp. 211. ISBN 0 8018 5151 3.

Paolo Palladino, Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America 1885–1985 (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 1996). Pp. 201. ISBN 3 7186 5907 7.

Gregory D. Sumner, Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996). Pp. 272. ISBN 0 8014 3020 8.

Carl A. Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, £11.95). Pp. 288. ISBN 0 8071 2099 5.

George E. Paulsen, A Living Wage for the Forgotten Man: The Quest for Fair Labor Standards 1933–1941 (Selingsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses Inc., 1995, £32.50). Pp. 228. ISBN 0 945636 91 1.

Edward M. Burns and Ulla E. Dydo with William Rice (eds.), The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, £25.00 cloth). Pp. 452. ISBN 0 300 06774 7.

Tim Armstrong (ed.), American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. £27.00 cloth, £14.95 paper). Pp. 212. ISBN 1 87075 753 4, 1 85075 790 9.

Elizabeth Brayer, George Eastman: A Biography (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, $39.95). Pp. 637. ISBN 0 8018 5263 3.

Jonathan D. Hill (ed.), History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas 1492–1992 Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996, £30.95 cloth, £14.95 paper). Pp. 277. ISBN 0 87745 546 5, 0 87745 547 3.

Rob Kroes, If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall: Europeans and American Mass Culture (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996, $27.50 cloth, $13.95 paper. Pp. 195. ISBN 0 252 06352 8.

Lloyd L. Brown, The Young Paul Robeson: “On My Journey Now” (Boulder, Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, 1997, $24.00). Pp. 186. (ISBN 0 8133 3178 1.

Stanley I. Kutler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (New York: Scribners, 1996, $99). Pp. 711. ISBN 0 13 276932 8.

Susan J. Rosowski (ed.), Cather Studies, Volume 3, (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, £42.75). Pp. 303. ISBN 0 8032 3920 3.

Yoshinobu Hakutani, Richard Wright and Racial Discourse (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996, £27.95). Pp. 312. ISBN 0 8262 1059 7.

David Plotke, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Pp. 388. ISBN 0 521 42059 8.

Lesley Marx, Crystals out of Chaos: John Hawkes and the Shapes of the Apocalypse (London: Associated University Presses, 1997, £32.50). Pp. 244. ISBN 0 8386 3661 6.

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917–1994 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995). Pp. 275. ISBN 0 8135 2449 0.

Russell Reisling, Loose Ends: Culture and Crisis in the American Social Text (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996). Pp. 374. ISBN 0 8223 1887 3.

Neil Levine, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996). ISBN 0 691 03371 4.

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