Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue: New Social Movements in America. By Christine A. Kelly. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 192p. $67.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

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Research on political movements remains peripheral to the discipline of political science, or, to put it more optimistically, outstanding research on political movements has relied upon interdisciplinary and intersubfield research strategies and is building an increasing presence within the discipline. The importance and emergence of this arena of scholarship make it difficult not to celebrate Christine Kelly's Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue, a work that offers a synthesis of political theory and empirical political movement research, employing comparative case studies of several new social movements in the United States.