| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965–1980. By Donna M. Binkiewicz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi, 295 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2878-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-80785546-4.)
This book rehearses the arguments that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) used to persuade Congress to fund its activities in behalf of visual arts. The ample footnotes show that Donna M. Binkiewicz has closely read the NEA's files, and the text cogently reviews the various visual manifestations that benefited from the agency's support. Her emphasis on internal documents, however, inflates and distorts the endowment's role.	1
A scholar has an obligation to present facts before expressing opinions. Yet this study of the agency's first fifteen years, 1965 to 1980, opens with a one-sided recitation of its financial plight in 1995, due to attacks the author attributes to "staunchly conservative arts foe Sen. Jesse Helms" (p. 1). In fact, the agency's critics included Leonard Garment, who had earlier persuaded Richard M. Nixon to increase NEA funding, and Livingston Biddle, who had been NEA chair in the Carter administration.	. . .

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