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Kristin S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham, America's Poor and the Great Recession (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013, $21.00). Pp. 131. isbn978 0 253 00974 6.
ALICE LILLY
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26 September 2014, pp. 1128-1129
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John Burnham (ed.), After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012, $35.00/£22.50). Pp. 274. isbn978 0 2260 8137 3.
ANDREW FEARNLEY
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09 April 2014, pp. 677-678
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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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Donald L. Fixico, Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, & Reality (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013, $50.00). Pp. 264. isbn978 0 8032 4356 9.
NICOLAS G. ROSENTHAL
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11 July 2014, pp. 904-906
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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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Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, and Bernice M. Murphy (eds.), It Came from the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, £58.00). Pp. 233. isbn978 0 2302 7221 7.
ELIZABETH FRATERRIGO
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09 April 2014, pp. 678-680
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Sinéad Moynihan, Other People's Diasporas: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish American Culture (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013, $35.96). Pp. 242. isbn081 563 310 6.
DIANE NEGRA
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26 September 2014, pp. 1129-1131
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Antonio T. Tiongson Jr., Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-Hop Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, $67.50 cloth, $22.50 paper). Pp. 152. isbn978 0 8166 7938 6, 978 0 8166 7939 3.
ANTHONY KWAME HARRISON
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11 July 2014, pp. 906-907
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Cedric Johnson (ed.), The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011; $25.00). Pp. 406. isbn978 0 8166 7325 4.
ANNA HARTNELL
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11 July 2014, pp. 907-909
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Mark Gallagher, Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013, $54.00). Pp. 336. isbn029 274 421 8.
ANDREW DEWAARD
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26 September 2014, pp. 1131-1132
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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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Damion L. Thomas, Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2012, $60.00). Pp. 209. isbn978 0 2520 3717 7.
MARCY S. SACKS
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09 April 2014, pp. 680-682
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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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Zoe A. Colley, Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013, $69.95). Pp. 158. isbn978 0 8130 4241 1.
DAN BERGER
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09 April 2014, pp. 682-683
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The Most Famous Thing Robert E. Lee Never Said: Duty, Forgery, and Cultural Amnesia
SEAN HEUSTON
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26 September 2014, E96
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This essay explains the surprising set of circumstances surrounding perhaps the best-known quotation commonly attributed to Robert E. Lee (“Duty is the sublimest word in the English language”) and explains several significant things about the famous quotation and its broader significance: (1) Lee never said any such thing. (2) The famous line appears in a forged letter. (3) It is quite likely that a Union soldier forged the letter when the US Army occupied Lee's Arlington, Virginia estate during the American Civil War. (4) The phony quotation also shows up in an amazing range of sources, from academic books and scholarly journals, to Forbes magazine, to legal briefs and judicial decisions, to speeches by major political figures. (5) Although at one point early in the twentieth century it was fairly widely known that the letter was a forgery, the bogus quotation persists in widespread usage as something like a southern (and, perhaps surprisingly, a national) equivalent of George Washington's apocryphal “I cannot tell a lie.” (6) The long, strange career of this bogus quotation has larger implications for professional and general conversations about Lee, the Civil War, and American cultural memory.

Roundtable - Renée Ater, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, £34.95). Pp. 214. isbn978 0 5202 6212 6.
PATRICIA HILLS, KIRSTEN PAI BUICK, HANNAH DURKIN
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29 May 2014, E65
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Francis J. Bremer, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012, £30.00). Pp. 440. isbn0 300 1791 38. - Michael P. Winship, Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012, £36.95). Pp. 339. isbn0 674 0638 56.
SIMON MIDDLETON
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11 July 2014, E66
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Matthew Levin, Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013, £24.95/$26.95). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 2992 9284 3.
NICK WITHAM
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09 April 2014, pp. 684-685
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CRYSTAL S. ANDERSON
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26 September 2014, E97
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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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Kristin S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham, America's Poor and the Great Recession (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013, $21.00). Pp. 131. isbn978 0 253 00974 6.

John Burnham (ed.), After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012, $35.00/£22.50). Pp. 274. isbn978 0 2260 8137 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.

Donald L. Fixico, Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, & Reality (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013, $50.00). Pp. 264. isbn978 0 8032 4356 9.

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.

Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, and Bernice M. Murphy (eds.), It Came from the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, £58.00). Pp. 233. isbn978 0 2302 7221 7.

Sinéad Moynihan, Other People's Diasporas: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish American Culture (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013, $35.96). Pp. 242. isbn081 563 310 6.

Antonio T. Tiongson Jr., Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-Hop Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, $67.50 cloth, $22.50 paper). Pp. 152. isbn978 0 8166 7938 6, 978 0 8166 7939 3.

Cedric Johnson (ed.), The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011; $25.00). Pp. 406. isbn978 0 8166 7325 4.

Mark Gallagher, Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013, $54.00). Pp. 336. isbn029 274 421 8.

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.

Damion L. Thomas, Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2012, $60.00). Pp. 209. isbn978 0 2520 3717 7.

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

Zoe A. Colley, Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013, $69.95). Pp. 158. isbn978 0 8130 4241 1.

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The Most Famous Thing Robert E. Lee Never Said: Duty, Forgery, and Cultural Amnesia

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Matthew Levin, Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013, £24.95/$26.95). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 2992 9284 3.

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Exclusive Online Reviews - Yuichiro Onishi, Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (New York: New York University Press, 2013, $45.00). Pp. 254. isbn978 0 8147 6264 6.

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