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Volume 49 - August 2015

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John Arena, Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, $27.50). Pp. 303. isbn978 0 8166 7747 4.

Joel Isaac and Duncan Bell (eds.), Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, £64.00). Pp. 312. isbn978 0 1998 2612 4.

Blain Roberts, Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014, $39.95). Pp. 384. isbn978 1 4696 1420 5.

Kaeten Mistry, The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare, 1945–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, £65.00). Pp. 308. isbn978 1 1070 3508 9.

Malcolm McLaughlin, The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, £60.00). Pp. xiii + 227. isbn978 1 1372 6962 1.

James G. Morgan, Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, £27.20/$34.95). Pp. 268. isbn978 0 2993 0044 9.

John D. Skrentny, After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014, $35.00/£24.95). Pp. xiv + 397. isbn978 0 6911 5996 6.

Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg (eds.), The U.S. South and Europe: Translatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2013, $50.00). Pp. 307. isbn978 0 8131 4308 8.

Graeme Abernethy, The Iconography of Malcolm X (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013, $34.95). Pp. 328. isbn978 0 7006 1920 7.

Karen M. Dunak, As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America (New York: New York University Press, 2013, $39.00). Pp. 254. isbn081 4737 811.

Simon Reich and Richard Ned Lebow, Good-Bye Hegemony! Power and Influence in the Global System (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014, £57.40 cloth, £16.00 paper). Pp. 190. isbn978 0 6911 6042 9, 978 0 6911 6043 6.

Hal Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014, $29.95). Pp. 288. isbn978 0 8014 5246 8.

Peter J. Ling, John F. Kennedy (London and New York: Routledge, 2013, $39.95). Pp. 320. isbn978 0 4155 2886 3. - Mark White, Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, $32.95). Pp. 172. isbn978 1 4411 6186 4.

Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Rogier van Reekum (eds.), New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (New York: New York University Press, 2014, $30.00). Pp. 336. isbn978 0 8147 3844 3.

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Ronald D. Cohen and James Capaldi (eds.), The Pete Seeger Reader (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, £22.99/$35.00). Pp. xv + 268. isbn978 0 1998 6201 6.

Mark Osteen, Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, $34.95). Pp. 336. isbn978 1 4214 0780 7.

Neil Campbell, Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013, $65.00). Pp. 415. isbn978 0 8032 3476 5.

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