| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884–1914. By Kathryn J. Oberdeck. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 429 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-6060-1.)

Whether they are defenders of "Western Civ" or partisans of "multiculturalism" and "diversity," combatants in today's "culture wars" often argue as though their conflicts are historically unprecedented. Yet cultural historians know that contests over the terms, meanings, and hierarchies of culture are nothing new and that the period between the Civil War and World War I witnessed a number of such bitter and confused battles. In her valuable new book, Kathryn J. Oberdeck enters what she calls this "dynamic arena of cultural politics" by studying the intersection of religion, popular entertainment, and the public sphere in turn-of-the-century New Haven, Connecticut. . . .

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