Townsend Hoopes, Douglas Brinkley. FDR and the Creation of the U.N. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xii + 287 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-06930-3.
Reviewed by Matthew S. Magda (Sacred Heart University) Published on H-USA (December, 1997)
Joseph G. Morgan. The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xviii + 229 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2322-4.
Reviewed by Fabian Hilfrich (John F. Kennedy-Institut, Free University of Berlin, Germany) Published on H-USA (September, 1997)
Fighting for and over Vietnam
Eisaku Kihira. Pakkusu Amerikana heno Michi: Taido Suru Sengo Sekai Chitsujo (The Path to the Pax Americana: The Rise of the Postwar World Order). Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppan Sha, 1996. xxiii + 302 pp.
Reviewed by Nobuko Toyosawa (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) Published on H-USA (September, 1997)
The Rise of the United States in the International Community
Michael Brown. The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 396 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8143-2536-0.
Reviewed by Antonio Donno (University of Lecce (Italy)) Published on H-USA (August, 1997)
The United States and Palestinian Zionism between the Two Wars
Hitoshi Hanai, Koki Asakawa. Sengo Nichibei Kankei no Kiseki (The Course of U.S.-Japan Relation in the Post-War Era). Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1995. x + 253 pp. Y 2,575 (cloth), ISBN 978-4-326-35107-7.
Reviewed by Nobuko Toyosawa (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) Published on H-USA (August, 1997)
Post-War U.S.-Japan Relation
Daizaburo Yui. Nichibei Sensokan no Sokoku: Masatsu no Shinso Shinri (Japan and The United States Over War Perspective: Deep State of Mind of Friction). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1995. viii + 236 pp. ISBN 978-4-00-001720-6.
Reviewed by Nobuko Toyosawa (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) Published on H-USA (August, 1997)
Origin of War Perspective
Bernard Schwartz. Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 272 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-509859-4.
Reviewed by Mark Siegel (Phoenix, Arizona) Published on H-USA (August, 1997)
Arthur T. Vanderbilt. Treasure Wreck: The Fortunes and Fate of the Pirate Ship Whydah. Provincetown, Mass.: Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 1992. x + 164 pp. $8.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-945135-06-7.
Reviewed by Christopher D. Felker (Michigan State University) Published on H-USA (July, 1997)
The American Heritage Talking Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. .
Reviewed by Takashi Sugimoto Published on H-USA (July, 1997)
Lian Xi. The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xiv + 247 pp. $38.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-01606-1.
Reviewed by Cristina Zaccarini (SUNY at Stony Brook, NY) Published on H-USA (July, 1997)
Stig Foerster, eds., Joerg Nagler. On the Road to Total War. The American Civil War and the German War of Unification, 1861-1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 705 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-56071-9.
Reviewed by Wolfgang Hochbruck (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Published on H-USA (July, 1997)
Hugh Brogan. Kennedy. London: Longman, 1996. ix + 249 pp. $27.00 (textbook), ISBN 978-0-582-02888-3; $127.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-582-02889-0.
Reviewed by Kostadin Grozev (Sofia University (Bulgaria)) Published on H-USA (July, 1997)
Presidential Leadership
GÖ¼nter Bischof, Stephen E. Ambrose, eds. Eisenhower: A Century Assessment. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. xx + 281 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-1942-6.
Reviewed by Yasuhiro Yamada (Osaka University of Foreign Studies) Published on H-USA (July, 1997)
Nancy Rubin. American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post. New York: Villard Books, 1995. xvi + 445 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-679-41347-9.
Reviewed by Christopher D. Felker (Michigan State University) Published on H-USA (June, 1997)
James Welch, Paul Stekler. Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. 320 pp. $13.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-025176-0.
Reviewed by Will Karkavelas (Osaka University) Published on H-USA (April, 1997)
