| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.3

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Backcountry Crucibles: The Lehigh Valley from Settlement to Steel. Edited by Jean R. Soderlund and Catherine S. Parzynski. (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2008. 349 pp. Notes, notes on contributors, index. $46.50.)
Several years ago, a popular bumper sticker proclaimed, "Pennsylvania: America Starts Here." In various ways, this book reinforces that statement. As a result of the Lehigh Valley's racial pluralism, freedom of worship, political democracy, and "boom and bust" economic cycles, this region could be considered a microcosm of the nation, especially the backcountry, as a whole.	1
The editors divide the book into four chronologically arranged sections comprised of fourteen original articles that cover the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The introduction presents the editor's rationale for writing the book and tells readers what they will find in it.	. . .

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