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Volume 48 - Issue 1 - February 2014

Journal of American Studies Volume 48 - Issue 1 -

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Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, £29.95). Pp. 311. isbn978 0 6740 5986 3.
JUDIE NEWMAN
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18 February 2014, pp. 333-334
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Celeste-Marie Bernier, Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, $39.50). Pp. xxv+433. isbn978 0 8139 3324 5.
AUDREY A. FISCH
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18 February 2014, pp. 334-336
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David Mayers, FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis: From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, £30.00). Pp. xiv+372+12 b/w illus. isbn978 1 1070 3126 5.
ANDREW BUCHANAN
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18 February 2014, pp. 336-337
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Alyosha Goldstein, Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, $26.95). Pp. 392. isbn978 0 8223 5181 8.
SHEYDA JAHANBANI
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18 February 2014, pp. 337-339
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Jay Garcia, Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, $50.00). Pp. 176. isbn978 1 4214 0519 3.
DANIEL MATLIN
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18 February 2014, pp. 339-340
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David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, $29.95). Pp. 360. isbn978 0 1997 5202 7.
GLENN FELDMAN
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18 February 2014, pp. 341-342
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Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, £24.95). Pp. 560. isbn978 0 5202 7185 2.
JOE STREET
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18 February 2014, pp. 342-343
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Shawn Francis Peters, The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistances in the Vietnam Era (New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2012, £22.50). Pp. 330. isbn978 0 1998 2785 5.
SARAH THELEN
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18 February 2014, pp. 344-345
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Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, $34.95). Pp. 352. isbn978 0 1997 5423 6.
SUSAN M. HARTMANN
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18 February 2014, pp. 345-346
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Jonathan Kirshner, Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012, $22.95). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 8014 7816 1.
NATHAN HOLMES
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18 February 2014, pp. 347-348
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, $34.95). Pp. x+324. isbn978 0 1998 1139 7.
OSAMAH F. KHALIL
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18 February 2014, pp. 348-350
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Christopher Lee, The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012, $50.00). Pp. 208. isbn978 0 8047 7870 1.
SUE-IM LEE
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18 February 2014, pp. 351-352
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Bruce Robbins, Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, $23.95). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8223 5209 9.
ANTHONY D'AGOSTINO
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18 February 2014, pp. 352-353
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Judie Newman, Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction (New York: Routledge, 2013, £80.00). Pp. xii+181. isbn978 0 4158 9912 3.
ALIKI VARVOGLI
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18 February 2014, pp. 354-355
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Citizenship and the Built Environment
JASON NARLOCK, CARA RODWAY, MAURA D'AMORE, JASON NARLOCK, ELIZABETH RAWITSCH
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06 February 2014, E1
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Musical America: Staging the USA to the Sounds of Music
ROB KROES, DENIZ ERTAN
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27 January 2014, E2
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Shawn Leigh Alexander, An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle before the NAACP. Politics and Culture in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, $49.95). Pp. 408. isbn978 0 8122 4375 8.
NICHOLAS GRANT
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18 February 2014, E3
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John Burt, Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas and Moral Conflict (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, £29.95/$39.95). Pp. xvii + 814. isbn978 0 6740 5018 1.
ANTHONY HUTCHISON
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18 February 2014, E4
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Janet Floyd, Claims and Speculations: Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012, $45.00). Pp. 196. isbn978 0 8263 5139 5.
TARA PENRY
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18 February 2014, E5
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Judith Yaross Lee, Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, $55.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 1 6170 3643 9.
LAWRENCE E. MINTZ
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18 February 2014, E6
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Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, £29.95). Pp. 311. isbn978 0 6740 5986 3.

Celeste-Marie Bernier, Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, $39.50). Pp. xxv+433. isbn978 0 8139 3324 5.

David Mayers, FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis: From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, £30.00). Pp. xiv+372+12 b/w illus. isbn978 1 1070 3126 5.

Alyosha Goldstein, Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, $26.95). Pp. 392. isbn978 0 8223 5181 8.

Jay Garcia, Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, $50.00). Pp. 176. isbn978 1 4214 0519 3.

David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, $29.95). Pp. 360. isbn978 0 1997 5202 7.

Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, £24.95). Pp. 560. isbn978 0 5202 7185 2.

Shawn Francis Peters, The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistances in the Vietnam Era (New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2012, £22.50). Pp. 330. isbn978 0 1998 2785 5.

Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, $34.95). Pp. 352. isbn978 0 1997 5423 6.

Jonathan Kirshner, Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012, $22.95). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 8014 7816 1.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, $34.95). Pp. x+324. isbn978 0 1998 1139 7.

Christopher Lee, The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012, $50.00). Pp. 208. isbn978 0 8047 7870 1.

Bruce Robbins, Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, $23.95). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8223 5209 9.

Judie Newman, Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction (New York: Routledge, 2013, £80.00). Pp. xii+181. isbn978 0 4158 9912 3.

Roundtable

Citizenship and the Built Environment

Musical America: Staging the USA to the Sounds of Music

Exclusive Online Reviews

Shawn Leigh Alexander, An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle before the NAACP. Politics and Culture in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, $49.95). Pp. 408. isbn978 0 8122 4375 8.

John Burt, Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas and Moral Conflict (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, £29.95/$39.95). Pp. xvii + 814. isbn978 0 6740 5018 1.

Janet Floyd, Claims and Speculations: Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012, $45.00). Pp. 196. isbn978 0 8263 5139 5.

Judith Yaross Lee, Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, $55.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 1 6170 3643 9.

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