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Volume 48 - Issue 2 - May 2014

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Natalie J. Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880–1930 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012, $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper). Pp. 288. isbn978 0 8203 2903 1, 978 0 8203 4260 3.
MICHAEL PERMAN
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David E. Nye, America's Assembly Line (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2013, $29.95). Pp. 267. isbn978 0 2620 1871 5.
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Thomas Doherty, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, $35.00). Pp. ix+429. isbn978 0 2311 6392 7.
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Susanne Hamscha, The Fiction of America: Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 2013, $49.00). Pp. 334. isbn978 3 5933 9872 3.
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Aaron Lecklider, Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, $45.00). Pp. 275. isbn978 0 8122 4486 1.
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Michael R. Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.–Japan Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, $49.95). Pp. 277. isbn978 0 6740 4597 2.
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T. Austin Graham, The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, £41.99). Pp. 293. isbn978 0 1919 86211 5.
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Karen Kuo, East Is West and West Is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013, $26.95). Pp. 237. isbn978 1 4399 0587 6.
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Karen L. Cox (ed.), Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012, £63.50). Pp. xii+315. isbn978 0 8130 4237 4.
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Nancy Beck Young, Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013, £35.95). Pp. 376. isbn978 0 7006 1917 7.
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Robert L. Fleegler, Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, $49.95/£32.50). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 8122 4509 7.
DONNA R. GABACCIA
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Thomas Devine, Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013, $39.95). Pp. ix+408. isbn978 1 4696 0203 5.
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Lawrence J. Friedman, assisted by Anke M. Schreiber, The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, $29.95). Pp. 410. isbn978 0 2311 6258 6.
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Inger Stole, Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012, $30.00). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 2520 7865 1.
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Neil Verma, Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012, $85.00 cloth, $29.00 paper). Pp. x+293. isbn978 0 2268 5350 5, 978 0 2268 5351 2.
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Ana Sobral, Opting Out: Deviance and Generational Identities in American Post-war Cult Fiction (Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2012, £49.00). Pp. 275. isbn978 9 0420 3576 8.
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Robert E. Terrill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, £55.00). Pp. xiv+194. isbn978 0 5215 1590 0.
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Min Hyoung Song, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013, $84.95). Pp. 296. isbn978 0 8223 5438 3.
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William G. Howell with David Milton Brent, Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, $22.95). Pp. 143. isbn978 0 6911 5534 0.
SETH OFFENBACH
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Mérida Rúa, A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, £32.50). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 1997 6026 8.
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Natalie J. Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880–1930 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012, $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper). Pp. 288. isbn978 0 8203 2903 1, 978 0 8203 4260 3.

David E. Nye, America's Assembly Line (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2013, $29.95). Pp. 267. isbn978 0 2620 1871 5.

Thomas Doherty, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, $35.00). Pp. ix+429. isbn978 0 2311 6392 7.

Susanne Hamscha, The Fiction of America: Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 2013, $49.00). Pp. 334. isbn978 3 5933 9872 3.

Aaron Lecklider, Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, $45.00). Pp. 275. isbn978 0 8122 4486 1.

Michael R. Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.–Japan Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, $49.95). Pp. 277. isbn978 0 6740 4597 2.

T. Austin Graham, The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, £41.99). Pp. 293. isbn978 0 1919 86211 5.

Karen Kuo, East Is West and West Is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013, $26.95). Pp. 237. isbn978 1 4399 0587 6.

Karen L. Cox (ed.), Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012, £63.50). Pp. xii+315. isbn978 0 8130 4237 4.

Nancy Beck Young, Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013, £35.95). Pp. 376. isbn978 0 7006 1917 7.

Robert L. Fleegler, Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, $49.95/£32.50). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 8122 4509 7.

Thomas Devine, Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013, $39.95). Pp. ix+408. isbn978 1 4696 0203 5.

Lawrence J. Friedman, assisted by Anke M. Schreiber, The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, $29.95). Pp. 410. isbn978 0 2311 6258 6.

Inger Stole, Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012, $30.00). Pp. 280. isbn978 0 2520 7865 1.

Neil Verma, Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012, $85.00 cloth, $29.00 paper). Pp. x+293. isbn978 0 2268 5350 5, 978 0 2268 5351 2.

Ana Sobral, Opting Out: Deviance and Generational Identities in American Post-war Cult Fiction (Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2012, £49.00). Pp. 275. isbn978 9 0420 3576 8.

Robert E. Terrill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, £55.00). Pp. xiv+194. isbn978 0 5215 1590 0.

Min Hyoung Song, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013, $84.95). Pp. 296. isbn978 0 8223 5438 3.

William G. Howell with David Milton Brent, Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, $22.95). Pp. 143. isbn978 0 6911 5534 0.

Mérida Rúa, A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, £32.50). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 1997 6026 8.

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