Wells, Rob. The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street. Journalism and Democracy Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. ix + 241 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781625347046.$32.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625347039.
Church, Scott Haden. Turntables and Tropes: A Rhetoric of Remix. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2022. 248 pp. $42.95 (paper), ISBN 9781611864083.
Reviewed by
Marci Mazzarotto (Georgian Court University)
Published on
Jhistory (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Zef Segal (Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, the Open University of Israel)
Nielsen, Hanne Elliot Fønss. Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 272 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781496221216.
Hallinan, Victoria. The Moiseyev Dance Company Tours America: "Wholesome" Comfort during the Cold War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. xii + 235 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781625347510.$32.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625347527.
Reviewed by
Tara Wheelwright (Brown University)
Published on
H-SHERA (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Patterson, David. Judaism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust: Making the Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 294 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781009100038.
Reviewed by
Steven L. Jacobs (University of Alabama)
Published on
H-Antisemitism (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Simon Gansinger (University of Warwick)
Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
by Nathan R. Johnson (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2020 - $49.95 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-0817320607, [available in ebook], 224 pp., list of figures, acknowledgements, introduction, 6 chapters, notes, references, index, 6 B/W illustrations).
Nathan Johnson’s pursuit of foregrounding Rhetoric within memory’s infrastructure, across the spatiotemporal evolution of technology and techniques (christened as mnemonic techne), paved way for the reconstruction of memory’s originating myths and a retelling of
Oromaner on Stoner, 'Fear, Hate, and Victimhood: How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook'
Stoner, Andrew E.. Fear, Hate, and Victimhood: How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook. Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 254 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781496838452.$30.00 (paper), ISBN 9781496838469.
Press, Andrea Lee; Tripodi, Francesca. Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How US Audiences Create Meaning across Platforms. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021. 226 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781438481951.
Reviewed by
Caley Hewitt (Louisiana State University)
Published on
Jhistory (December, 2023)
Commissioned by
Zef Segal (Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, the Open University of Israel)
Brown, Matthew H.. Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. ix + 316 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 9781478014195.
Reviewed by
Matthew S. Johnson (Independent Scholar)
Published on
Jhistory (November, 2023)
Commissioned by
Zef Segal (Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, the Open University of Israel)
Walls on Hirshman, 'The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation'
Hirshman, Linda. The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation. Boston: Mariner Books, 2022. 352 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781328900241.
Reviewed by
Eric Walls (Pitt Community College)
Published on
Jhistory (November, 2023)
Commissioned by
Zef Segal (Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, the Open University of Israel)