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Volume 47 - February 2013

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Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (London: Verso, 2012, £20.00/$26.95). Pp. 302. ISBN 978 1 84467 994 2.
ANTHONY HUTCHISON
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Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (eds.), Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code (London and New York: Continuum, 2012, £17.99). Pp. 373. isbn978 1 4411 6216 8.
MARK STOREY
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Grey Osterud, Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012, $26.95). Pp. 296. isbn978 0 8014 7810 9.
MELISSA WALKER
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Erik S. Gellman, Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012, $39.95). Pp. 354. isbn978 0 8078 3531 9.
KEISHA N. BLAIN
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Samuel W. Black and Regennia N. Williams, Through the Lens of Allen E. Cole: A Photographic History of African Americans in Cleveland, Ohio (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2012, $49.00). Pp. 116. isbn978 1 60635 090 4.
EARNESTINE JENKINS
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Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey through American Literature (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, £45.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 19 986207 8.
ROSEMARY GALLAGHER
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11 July 2013, E74
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Jeffrey Magee, Irving Berlin's Musical Theater (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, $35.00). Pp. xiii + 394. isbn978 0 19 539826 7.
LISA RÜLL
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Maria Wyke, Caesar in the USA (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012, $39.95/£27.95). Pp. ix+306. ISBN 978 0 520 27391 7.
MARK STOREY
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Lauren Rabinovitz, Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, $27.50). Pp. 174. isbn978 0 231 15661 5.
GARY CROSS
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Daniel Grausam, On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, £19.95). Pp. 162. ISBN 978 0 8139 3162 3.
ROBERT W. JONES II
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John Paul Athanasourelis, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, $40.00). Pp. 208. isbn978 0 7864 4215 7.
STEFANO TANI
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12 February 2013, E15
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Frederick Turner, Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012, £20.00). Pp. 215. isbn978 0 300 14949 4.
JENNIFER COWE
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11 July 2013, E75
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Michael Moon, Darger's Resources (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper). Pp. 176. isbn978 0 8223 5142 9, 978 0 8223 5156 6.
LEISA RUNDQUIST
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Victoria Saker Woeste, Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle against Hate Speech (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, $55.00). Pp. 408. isbn978 0 8047 7234 1.
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Don Mitchell, They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012, $26.95). Pp. 576. isbn978 0 8203 4176 7.
STEVEN STOLL
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Geoffrey Hale, So Near Yet So Far: The Public and Hidden Worlds of Canada–US Relations (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012, $38.00). Pp. 425. ISBN 978 0 7748 2042 4.
BRIAN BOW
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Sharin N. Elkholy (ed.), The Philosophy of the Beats (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012, $40.00). Pp. 291. isbn978 0 8131 3580 9.
CATHERINE NASH
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11 July 2013, E77
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Patrick D. Lukens, A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy over “Whiteness” (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012, $50.00). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8165 2902 5.
SHANA BERNSTEIN
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Vanni Pettinà, Cuba y Estados Unidos, 1933–1959: Del Compromiso Nacionalista al Conflicto (Madrid: Catarata, 2011, £19.87). Pp. 279. isbn978 84 8319 627 4.
HAL BRANDS
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12 February 2013, E17
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Mimi Thi Nguyen, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, $23.95). Pp. 296. ISBN 978 0 8223 5239 6.
JANA K. LIPMAN
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Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (London: Verso, 2012, £20.00/$26.95). Pp. 302. ISBN 978 1 84467 994 2.

Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (eds.), Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code (London and New York: Continuum, 2012, £17.99). Pp. 373. isbn978 1 4411 6216 8.

Grey Osterud, Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012, $26.95). Pp. 296. isbn978 0 8014 7810 9.

Erik S. Gellman, Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012, $39.95). Pp. 354. isbn978 0 8078 3531 9.

Samuel W. Black and Regennia N. Williams, Through the Lens of Allen E. Cole: A Photographic History of African Americans in Cleveland, Ohio (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2012, $49.00). Pp. 116. isbn978 1 60635 090 4.

Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey through American Literature (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, £45.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 19 986207 8.

Jeffrey Magee, Irving Berlin's Musical Theater (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, $35.00). Pp. xiii + 394. isbn978 0 19 539826 7.

Maria Wyke, Caesar in the USA (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012, $39.95/£27.95). Pp. ix+306. ISBN 978 0 520 27391 7.

Lauren Rabinovitz, Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, $27.50). Pp. 174. isbn978 0 231 15661 5.

Daniel Grausam, On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, £19.95). Pp. 162. ISBN 978 0 8139 3162 3.

John Paul Athanasourelis, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, $40.00). Pp. 208. isbn978 0 7864 4215 7.

Frederick Turner, Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012, £20.00). Pp. 215. isbn978 0 300 14949 4.

Michael Moon, Darger's Resources (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper). Pp. 176. isbn978 0 8223 5142 9, 978 0 8223 5156 6.

Victoria Saker Woeste, Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle against Hate Speech (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, $55.00). Pp. 408. isbn978 0 8047 7234 1.

Don Mitchell, They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012, $26.95). Pp. 576. isbn978 0 8203 4176 7.

Geoffrey Hale, So Near Yet So Far: The Public and Hidden Worlds of Canada–US Relations (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012, $38.00). Pp. 425. ISBN 978 0 7748 2042 4.

Sharin N. Elkholy (ed.), The Philosophy of the Beats (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012, $40.00). Pp. 291. isbn978 0 8131 3580 9.

Patrick D. Lukens, A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy over “Whiteness” (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012, $50.00). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8165 2902 5.

Vanni Pettinà, Cuba y Estados Unidos, 1933–1959: Del Compromiso Nacionalista al Conflicto (Madrid: Catarata, 2011, £19.87). Pp. 279. isbn978 84 8319 627 4.

Mimi Thi Nguyen, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, $23.95). Pp. 296. ISBN 978 0 8223 5239 6.

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