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Volume 53 - Issue 3 - August 2019

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Joseph P. McCallus, Forgotten under a Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898–1913 (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2017, $39.95). Pp. 259. isbn978 1 6063 5319 6.
KRISTIN HOGANSON
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27 September 2019, pp. 850-852
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Jonathan Vincent, The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890–1964 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £62.00). Pp. 293. isbn978 0 1904 6666 4.
AGNIESZKA SOLTYSIK MONNET
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27 September 2019, pp. 852-853
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Giorgio Mariani, Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015, $55.00). Pp. 296. isbn978 0 2520 3975 1.
STEFANIA CIOCIA
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27 September 2019, pp. 853-854
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Kevin J. Hayes, Mark Twain (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2018, £11.99/$13.30). Pp. 200. isbn978 1 7802 3974 3.
KERRY DRISCOLL
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27 September 2019, E35
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Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe (eds.), Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2017, £46.95). Pp. 271. isbn978 0 8173 1944 1.
PETER MESSENT
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27 September 2019, E36
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Douglas Anderson, The Introspective Art of Mark Twain (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, £20.99). Pp. 247. isbn978 1 5013 2954 8.
JOHN BIRD
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27 September 2019, E37
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Tom F. Wright, Lecturing the Atlantic: Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830–1870 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, £36.50/$74.00). Pp. xi + 245. isbn978 0 1904 9679 1.
PAUL GILES
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27 September 2019, E38
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Thomas H. Keels, Sesqui: Geed, Graft, and the Forgotten World's Fair of 1926 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017, $40.00). Pp. 400. isbn978 1 4399 0329 2.
DAVID TIEDEMANN
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27 September 2019, E39
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Guy Barefoot, The Lost Jungle: Cliffhanger Action and Hollywood Serials of the 1930s and 1940s (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2017, £75.00). Pp. ix + 272. isbn978 0 8598 9887 4.
JOHN SEDGWICK
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27 September 2019, E40
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Trischa Goodnow and James J. Kimble (eds.), The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017, $65.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 1 4968 1030 4.
HARRIET E. H. EARLE
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27 September 2019, E41
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Duncan White, Nabokov and His Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, $60.00). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 1987 3762 9.
RYAN SIEMERS
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27 September 2019, E42
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Mark Shanahan, Eisenhower at the Dawn of the Space Age: Sputnik, Rockets and Helping Hands (London: Lexington Books, 2016, £54.95/$85.00). Pp. 199. isbn978 1 4985 2814 6.
MARK EASTWOOD
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27 September 2019, E43
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Rebecca Onion, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016, $29.95). Pp. 169. isbn978 1 4696 2947 6.
CARROLL PURSELL
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John Rodden, Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017, $95.00 hardback, $19.95 paperback). Pp. 152. isbn978 0 2520 4047 4, 978 0 2520 8194 1.
HUGH WILFORD
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Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer (eds.), Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, $49.95/£43.00). Pp. 263. isbn978 0 8122 4888 3.
PATRICK ANDELIC
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M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, $29.95). Pp. xiii + 241. isbn978 1 4696 3386 2.
ERIKA DOSS
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Jennifer Helgren, American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017, $47.36). Pp. 223. isbn978 0 8135 7579 7.
TARAH BROOKFIELD
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27 September 2019, E48
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Agatha Beins, Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017, $32.95). Pp. 208. isbn978 8203 4953 4.
OLIVIA WRIGHT
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27 September 2019, E49
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Leigh Gilmore, Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017, £24.95). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 2311 7714 6.
RACHAEL MCLENNAN
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27 September 2019, E50
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George Ciccariello-Maher, Decolonizing Dialectics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017, $23.95). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8223 6243 2.
ALEX MILLEN
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27 September 2019, E51
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Joseph P. McCallus, Forgotten under a Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898–1913 (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2017, $39.95). Pp. 259. isbn978 1 6063 5319 6.

Jonathan Vincent, The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890–1964 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £62.00). Pp. 293. isbn978 0 1904 6666 4.

Giorgio Mariani, Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015, $55.00). Pp. 296. isbn978 0 2520 3975 1.

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Kevin J. Hayes, Mark Twain (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2018, £11.99/$13.30). Pp. 200. isbn978 1 7802 3974 3.

Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe (eds.), Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2017, £46.95). Pp. 271. isbn978 0 8173 1944 1.

Douglas Anderson, The Introspective Art of Mark Twain (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, £20.99). Pp. 247. isbn978 1 5013 2954 8.

Tom F. Wright, Lecturing the Atlantic: Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830–1870 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, £36.50/$74.00). Pp. xi + 245. isbn978 0 1904 9679 1.

Thomas H. Keels, Sesqui: Geed, Graft, and the Forgotten World's Fair of 1926 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017, $40.00). Pp. 400. isbn978 1 4399 0329 2.

Guy Barefoot, The Lost Jungle: Cliffhanger Action and Hollywood Serials of the 1930s and 1940s (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2017, £75.00). Pp. ix + 272. isbn978 0 8598 9887 4.

Trischa Goodnow and James J. Kimble (eds.), The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017, $65.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 1 4968 1030 4.

Duncan White, Nabokov and His Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, $60.00). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 1987 3762 9.

Mark Shanahan, Eisenhower at the Dawn of the Space Age: Sputnik, Rockets and Helping Hands (London: Lexington Books, 2016, £54.95/$85.00). Pp. 199. isbn978 1 4985 2814 6.

Rebecca Onion, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016, $29.95). Pp. 169. isbn978 1 4696 2947 6.

John Rodden, Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017, $95.00 hardback, $19.95 paperback). Pp. 152. isbn978 0 2520 4047 4, 978 0 2520 8194 1.

Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer (eds.), Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, $49.95/£43.00). Pp. 263. isbn978 0 8122 4888 3.

M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, $29.95). Pp. xiii + 241. isbn978 1 4696 3386 2.

Jennifer Helgren, American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017, $47.36). Pp. 223. isbn978 0 8135 7579 7.

Agatha Beins, Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017, $32.95). Pp. 208. isbn978 8203 4953 4.

Leigh Gilmore, Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017, £24.95). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 2311 7714 6.

George Ciccariello-Maher, Decolonizing Dialectics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017, $23.95). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8223 6243 2.

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