Reviews

Ryan Alford. Permanent State of Emergency: Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of the Rule of Law. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-4919-7.

Reviewed by Christopher Kelley (Miami University of Ohio) Published on H-FedHist (October, 2018) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Steven M. Gillon. Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism. New York: Basic Books, 2018. 400 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09608-4.

Reviewed by David Steigerwald (The Ohio State University) Published on H-FedHist (September, 2018) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Charles E. Wright. Law at Little Big Horn: Due Process Denied. Plains Histories Series. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2016. 352 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89672-912-4.

Reviewed by Richmond Clow (University of Montana) Published on H-FedHist (September, 2018) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler. Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. 192 pp. $19.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3490-2.

Reviewed by Mark Elliott (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Published on H-FedHist (September, 2018) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Mark Holowchak, Brian W. Dotts, eds. The Elusive Thomas Jefferson: Essays on the Man behind the Myths. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. 252 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6925-0.

Reviewed by Andrew O'Shaughnessy (Thomas Jefferson Foundation; Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies) Published on H-FedHist (August, 2018) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Catherine E. Rymph. Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 252 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3564-4; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3563-7.

Reviewed by Birgitte Søland (The Ohio State University) Published on H-FedHist (August, 2018) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Michael Kazin. War against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. xix + 378 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4767-0590-3; $17.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4767-0591-0.

Reviewed by Alex Ryan Published on H-FedHist (August, 2018) Commissioned by Kate Brown (Huntington University)