| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark D. McGarvie, editors. Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 467. $40.00.

More than four decades after the publication of American Philanthropy (1960), an ambitious new volume aspires to supercede Robert H. Bremner's durable but brief and dated history of the subject. This collaboration among two editors and eighteen essayists draws on the recent work of scores if not hundreds of scholars, stretching its subject far beyond the limits that Bremner set for himself. Collections of essays are almost always uneven, and this one is no exception. The merits of individual contributions are secondary concerns, however, in assessing a work that attempts nothing less than a new synthesis of its topic. If the book leaves some loose threads (and it does), it nevertheless offers both historians and professionals in the not-for-profit world a valuable new account of the origins and development of the amorphous segment of American life that is neither commercial nor governmental.

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