Matthew D. Lassiter. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii + 390 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-09255-3.
Reviewed by Craig Kaplowitz (Department of History, Judson College) Published on H-Pol (January, 2010)
Southern Unexceptionalism
Catherine E. Rymph. Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiii + 341 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5652-9; $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2984-4.
Reviewed by Aaron Haberman (Department of History, University of South Carolina) Published on H-Pol (January, 2007)
Robert O. Self. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xvi + 386 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-12486-5; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-07026-1.
Reviewed by Lindsay Silver (Department of History, Brandeis University) Published on H-Pol (January, 2007)
Babylon on the Bay
Bill Lofy. Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiii + 167 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-472-03119-1.
Reviewed by Jason Stahl (Department of History, University of Minnesota) Published on H-Pol (January, 2007)
Vocational Training
Meg Jacobs. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii + 349 pp. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-08664-4.
Reviewed by Gregory L. Schneider (Department of History, Emporia State University) Published on H-Pol (August, 2006)
Consumption Junction
David S. Allen. Democracy, Inc. The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xi + 200 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-02975-2.
Reviewed by Arthur L. Morin (Fort Hays State University) Published on H-Pol (August, 2006)
A Champion of the Public Sphere
Donna M. Binkiewicz. Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 295 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-2878-6; ISBN 978-0-8078-5546-1.
Reviewed by Jamie Pimlott (Department of Political Science, University of Florida) Published on H-Pol (July, 2006)
Cold Warrior to Provocateur: The History of the National Endowment for the Arts
Gil Troy. Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 397 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-09645-2.
Reviewed by Donna Binkiewicz (Department of History, California State University, Long Beach) Published on H-Pol (July, 2006)
Can a President Invent a Decade?
Suzanne Mettler. Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi + 252 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-518097-8.
Reviewed by Stephen R. Ortiz (Department of History, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Pol (June, 2006)
Yanek Mieczkowski. Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. vii + 455 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-2349-3.
Reviewed by Jason Lantzer (Department of History, Indiana University, Indianapolis) Published on H-Pol (June, 2006)
Time to Trade in the Old Ford for a New Revision
Matthew Countryman. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 432 pp. $42.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-3894-5.
Reviewed by James Wolfinger (Department of History and Teacher Education, DePaul University) Published on H-Pol (June, 2006)
From Interracial Liberalism to Black Power
Kevin M. Kruse. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-09260-7.
Reviewed by Andrew Highsmith (Department of History, University of Michigan.) Published on H-Pol (May, 2006)
Atlanta: The City Too Busy Moving to Hate
Stanley P. Berard. Southern Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. 250 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8061-3305-8.
Reviewed by Tim Boyd (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-Pol (May, 2006)
Kevin M. Kruse. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-09260-7.
Reviewed by Andrew Highsmith (Department of History, University of Michigan) Published on H-Pol (May, 2006)
Atlanta: The City Too Busy Moving to Hate
Donald T. Critchlow. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 422 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-07002-5.
Reviewed by Jonathan J. Bean (Department of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Published on H-Pol (February, 2006)
Mrs. Republican
