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Volume 85 - Issue 2 - Summer 2011

Book Reviews

To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death. By Suzanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. viii + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03621-5.

Early FM Radio: Incremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America. By Gary L. Frost. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xi + 191 pp. Illustrations, figures, glossary, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89440-4.

Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs. By Bar Biszick-Lockwood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv + 304 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03507-4; paper, 978-0-252-07694-7.

Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century. By Daniel Sidorick. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 300 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-801-44726-6.

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. By Bethany Moreton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 372 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03322-1.

For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933. By Mara L. Keire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xiv + 231 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89413-8.

Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America. By Elizabeth Fraterrigo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. vii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-38610-3.

Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960–1985. By Joseph P. Kraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. x + 273 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89375-5.

Reno's Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City. By Alicia Barber. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. x + 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-700-61594-0.

Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France. By Daniel S. Pierce. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 348 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83384-1.

Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Edited by Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks. New York: Routledge, 2009. x + 295 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-99655-6.

Dictatorship, Democracy, and Globalization: Argentina and the Cost of Paralysis, 1973–2001. By Klaus Friedrich Veigel. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xiv + 234 pp. Bibliography, index, notes. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-271-03464-5.

Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology and European Users. Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. viii + 415 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-15119-1.

When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. x + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01374-1.

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