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Volume 51 - May 2017

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Colin Dueck , The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, $24.95). Pp. 323. isbn 978 0 1902 0262 0.
NGUYEN THI THUY HANG
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Laurent Dubois , The Banjo: America's African Instrument (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2016, $29.95/£22.95). Pp. 364. isbn 978 0 6740 4784 6.
WILL KAUFMAN
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Paul Taylor , The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014, $17.99). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 6103 9350 8.
HACER BAHAR
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24 January 2017, E11
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George Kouvaros , Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, $25.00). Pp. 227. isbn 08166 95598.
ERIK M. BACHMAN
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Joanna Brooks , Rachel Hunt Steenblik , and Hannah Wheelwright (eds.), Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, $29.95). Pp. xv + 324. isbn 978 0 1902 4803 1. - Robert Millet and Shon D. Hopkin , Mormonism: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Bloomsbury, 2015, $29.95). Pp. viii + 271. isbn 978 1 4411 6389 9.
MATTHEW BOWMAN
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24 January 2017, E12
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George Cotkin , Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, £22.99). Pp. ix + 433. isbn 978 0 1902 1847 8. - Betty Luther Hillman , Dressing for the Culture Wars: Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015, $40.00). Pp. xxiv + 252. isbn 978 0 8032 6975 0.
W. J. RORABAUGH
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Jeremy Geltzer , Filthy Words and Dirty Pictures: Film and the First Amendment (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, $85.00). Pp. 384. isbn 978 1 4773 0740 3.
MELISSA OOTEN
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10 October 2017, E61
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Amira Jarmakani , An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror (New York: New York University Press, 2015, $28.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4798 2086 3.
ELORA HALIM CHOWDHURY
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Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young (eds.), Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, $55.00, £36.00). Pp. 416. isbn 978 0 8122 4725 1.
PETER J. MEEDOM
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24 January 2017, E13
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Carly A. Kocurek , Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, $22.95/£16.25). Pp. 244. isbn 978 0 8166 9183 8.
DEBRA RAMSAY
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Rafael Rojas , Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution, trans. Carl Good (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016, $35.00). Pp. 250. isbn 978 0 6911 6951 4.
JOHN A. GRONBECK-TEDESCO
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Maria Lauret , Wanderwords: Language Migration in American Literature (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2014, £25.99). Pp. 320. isbn 978 1 6289 2165 6.
BERTHOLD SCHOENE
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Bill Anthes , Edgar Heap of Birds (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper). Pp. 232. isbn 978 0 8223 5981 4, 978 0 8223 5994 4.
DEAN RADER
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Linda Beail and Lilly J. Goren (eds.), Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, £54.00). Pp. 228. isbn 978 1 5013 0634 1.
JP KELLY
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Pieter Vermeulen , Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, £58.00/$95.00). Pp. x + 182. isbn 978 1 1374 1452 6.
KIERAN JOSEPH ROBERT SMITH
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08 May 2017, E29
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Ann Brigham , American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015, $29.50). Pp. 262. isbn 978 0 8139 3750 2.
DAVID LADERMAN
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Colin Dueck , The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, $24.95). Pp. 323. isbn 978 0 1902 0262 0.

Laurent Dubois , The Banjo: America's African Instrument (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2016, $29.95/£22.95). Pp. 364. isbn 978 0 6740 4784 6.

Paul Taylor , The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014, $17.99). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 6103 9350 8.

George Kouvaros , Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, $25.00). Pp. 227. isbn 08166 95598.

Jeremy Geltzer , Filthy Words and Dirty Pictures: Film and the First Amendment (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, $85.00). Pp. 384. isbn 978 1 4773 0740 3.

Amira Jarmakani , An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror (New York: New York University Press, 2015, $28.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4798 2086 3.

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Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young (eds.), Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, $55.00, £36.00). Pp. 416. isbn 978 0 8122 4725 1.

Carly A. Kocurek , Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, $22.95/£16.25). Pp. 244. isbn 978 0 8166 9183 8.

Rafael Rojas , Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution, trans. Carl Good (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016, $35.00). Pp. 250. isbn 978 0 6911 6951 4.

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Maria Lauret , Wanderwords: Language Migration in American Literature (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2014, £25.99). Pp. 320. isbn 978 1 6289 2165 6.

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AMS volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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Bill Anthes , Edgar Heap of Birds (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper). Pp. 232. isbn 978 0 8223 5981 4, 978 0 8223 5994 4.

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Linda Beail and Lilly J. Goren (eds.), Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, £54.00). Pp. 228. isbn 978 1 5013 0634 1.

Pieter Vermeulen , Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, £58.00/$95.00). Pp. x + 182. isbn 978 1 1374 1452 6.

Ann Brigham , American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015, $29.50). Pp. 262. isbn 978 0 8139 3750 2.

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