| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism. By Dana Frank. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. xii, 302 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-8070-4710-4.)

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich presented a perplexing pair of questions for workers in the global age. Who, he queried, is "us" and who is "them" in an era of transnational production and heightened international competition? Dana Frank finds the answers in this exceptionally fine study and shows that the puzzle of economic citizenship is neither an advent of the global era nor without constructive solutions. Her deft analysis of over two centuries of nationalist approaches to foreign economic relations is complemented by a tidy narrative, a lively style, and an urgent message. Anyone trying to come to terms with the dilemmas of economic citizenship in a transnational world ought to read this extraordinarily useful history. . . .

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