| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. By Leon Jackson. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xii, 331 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5705-8.)

One way to identify scholarship that has an impact on a given field is to note which works invite commentary and explication over time by others tilling in the same vineyard. Such is the legacy of William Charvat, whose work in the area of book history has strongly influenced that burgeoning field. A recent entry that provides evidence for this assertion is Leon Jackson's The Business of Letters.

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