James R. Holmes. Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International Relations. Washington: Potomac Books, 2006. 328 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57488-883-6.
Reviewed by Emilian R. Kavalski (Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada) Published on H-USA (May, 2006)
The American Promotion of World Order
James Lewes. Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War. Westport: Praeger, 2003. xi + 243 pp. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-275-97861-7.
Reviewed by Janet G. Valentine (U.S. Army Center of Military History) Published on H-USA (August, 2005)
Non-Combat Soldier Dissent during the Vietnam War
Kim C. Sturgess. Shakespeare and the American Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. vi + 234 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-83585-5.
Reviewed by Goran Stanivukovic (Department of English, Saint Mary's University) Published on H-USA (March, 2005)
The Stars and Stripes of Shakespeare
Tevi Troy. Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. viii + 254 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7425-0825-5; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7425-0826-2.
Reviewed by Raj Jethwa (Policy Officer, Youth and Regional Affairs, Trades Union Congress, London) Published on H-USA (December, 2004)
As If Ideas Mattered...
James B. Crooks. Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xx + 274 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2708-1.
Reviewed by GianCarlo Estrada (Hillside High School, Hudson Schools of Technology) Published on H-USA (December, 2004)
New South Revival: Jacksonville's Return from Disaster
Erik Larson. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003. xi + 447 pp. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-609-60844-9.
Reviewed by Colin Morris (Department of History, Manhattanville College) Published on H-USA (November, 2004)
Chicago in Black and White
David A. Cook. A History of Narrative Film. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. xxviii + 1120 pp. $71.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-393-97868-1.
Reviewed by Fred Davies (Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex) Published on H-USA (October, 2004)
Jonathan Markovitz. Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. xxxi + 227 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-3995-3; $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-3994-6.
Reviewed by Bruce E. Baker (Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London) Published on H-USA (September, 2004)
Lynching as Metaphor and Memory
Jeffory Clymer. America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-2792-5; ISBN 978-0-8078-5460-0.
Reviewed by John Jefferson (Instructor, Hudson Schools of Technology) Published on H-USA (August, 2004)
Terrorism's Ugly Past
Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, Alice Hamilton. Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xl + 91 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-02888-5; $12.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07156-0.
Reviewed by William E. Doody (Indiana Area School District, Indiana) Published on H-USA (August, 2004)
David Greenberg. Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. xxxii + 460 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-04896-4.
Reviewed by Raj Jethwa (Policy Officer, Youth and Regional Affairs, Trades Union Congress, London) Published on H-USA (August, 2004)
A Scoundrel for All Seasons
David Von Drehle. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003. 340 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87113-874-3.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Jozwiak (Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Rock County) Published on H-USA (July, 2004)
Fire!
David K. Johnson. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii + 277 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-40481-3.
Reviewed by Douglas M. Charles (Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College) Published on H-USA (May, 2004)
The Second Red Scare's Fraternal Twin
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Books, 2003. ix + 129 pp. $18.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-02729-3.
Reviewed by Babacar M'Baye (Department of English and Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University) Published on H-USA (April, 2004)
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Reviewed by Billie Ford Published on H-USA (March, 2004)
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