| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Scott Reynolds Nelson. Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. 199. $25.00.

One cannot envy the author investigating anew "the most researched folk song in the United States, and perhaps the world" (p. 2). Yet the discovery of new documentation combined with Scott Reynolds Nelson's rapid and engaging tour through a broad landscape of American history and culture allows us more fully to grasp the political, racial, and technological context in which John Henry lived and his legend grew, and lets us "hear `John Henry' as a terrible and a beautiful song both" (p. 36).

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