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Volume 73 - Winter 1999

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Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership. By William L. BirdJr Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999. x + 288. Bibliography, figures, index, and notes. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0810115859.

The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. By Barbara H. Fried · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. x + 338 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0674775279

The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact. ByTimothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson · New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 301 pp. Charts, graphs, tables, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0195116518.

A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. ByJanice A. Radway · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii + 424 pp. Photographs, notes, list of sources, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0807823570.

E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. By Gerald J. Baldasty · Urbana: The Universtiy of Illinois Press, 1999. xii + 217 pp. Appendices, bibliography, illustrations, index, notes and tables. Paper, $16.95. ISBN 0252067509.

Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. ByAngel Kwolek-Folland · New York: Twayne, 1998. xv + 275 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. Cloth, $33.00. ISBN 080574519X.

A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792–1995. ByMary Ellen Zuckerman · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xvii + 272 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0313306753.

Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975. By Julian E. Zelizer. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv + 384 pp. Notes, references, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0521621666.

Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. By Jefferson Cowie. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. x + 273 pp. Bibliography, figures, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0801435250.

Curtiss-Wright: Greatness and Decline. By Louis R. Eltscher and Edward M. Young · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. xiii + 213 pp. Tables, photos, and appendices. Paper, $33.00. ISBN 0805798293.

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. ByMelinda Chateauvert · Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, xiv + 269 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, and index. Cloth, $46.95. ISBN 0252023404; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0252066367.

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. ByKathy Peiss · New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1998. xii + 334 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0805055509.

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. ByG. Pascal Zachary · New York: The Free Press, 1997. viii + 518 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0684828219.

Desegregating the Dollar. ByRobert E. WeemsJr · New York: New York University Press, 1998. 320 pp. Tables, appendices, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0814792901; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0814793274.

Builders: Herman and George Brown. By Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda · College Station: Texas A & M University Press: 1999. xxi + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN 0890968403.

Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. ByM. M. Manring · Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xi + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN 0813917824; paper, $14.95. ISBN 0813918111.

Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric. By Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 270 pp. Appendices, index, notes, and photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0521651182.

Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. ByMargaret Levenstein · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv + 277 pp. Figures, appendicies, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50. ISBN 0804730032.

Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960. By Gail Cooper · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x + 228 pp. Essay on sources and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0801857163.

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