Robert Shogan. The Double-Edged Sword: How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, from Washington to Clinton. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. xii + 284 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8133-6777-4.
Reviewed by Richard Shenkman (Editor, HistoryNewsNetwork.org) Published on H-Pol (April, 2001)
Character Counts?
Character Counts?
Hanes Walton, Jr. Reelection: William Jefferson Clinton as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 352 pp. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-11553-7.
Reviewed by Jay Barth (Department of Politics, Hendrix College) Published on H-Pol (April, 2001)
The Persistence of the "Native Son" Phenomenon
Philip Frankel. Soldiers in a Storm. The Armed Forces in South Africa's Democratic Transition. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000. xvi + 247 pp. $65.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8133-3747-0.
Reviewed by Vladimir Shubin (Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) Published on H-SAfrica (April, 2001)
Pier M. Larson. History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement. Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 2000. xxxii + 414 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-325-00217-0.
Reviewed by Gwyn Campbell (University of Avignon, France) Published on H-SAfrica (April, 2001)
Peter Sanders. The Last of the Queen's Men: A Lesotho Experience. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press; Morija: Morija Museum and Archives, 2000. 175 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-86814-353-5.Richard F. Weisfelder. Political Contention in Lesotho, 1952-1965. Roma, Lesotho: Institute of Southern African Studies, 1999. ix + 171 pp.
Jan-Bart Gewald. Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923. Oxford: James Currey, 1999. x + 310 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-1245-9.
Reviewed by Marion Wallace (Research and Editorial Services Department, Public Record Office, UK) Published on H-SAfrica (April, 2001)
Felix B. Tan, P. Scott Corbett, Yuk Yong Wong, eds. Information Technology Diffusion in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives on Policy, Electronic Commerce and Education. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Group Publishing, 1999. v + 357 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-878289-48-3.
Reviewed by Sandra Katzman (National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan) Published on H-US-Japan (April, 2001)
Boria Sax. Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust. Foreword by Klaus P. Fischer. New York and London: Continuum, 2000. 175 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8264-1289-8.
Reviewed by Marion W. Copeland (Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy) Published on H-Nilas (April, 2001)
History Can Repeat Itself
History Can Repeat Itself
Melissa S. Herbert. Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military. New York and London: New York University Press, 1998. ix + 205 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-3548-0.
Reviewed by Gioia Grasso (Independent scholar) Published on H-Minerva (April, 2001)
Military Women Battle Gender Bias
Military Women Battle Gender Bias
Rita Felski. Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 214 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-2706-5.
Reviewed by W. Douglas Catterall (Department of History and Government, Cameron University) Published on H-Minerva (April, 2001)
A Synthesis of Feminist and Postmodern Theory
