| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jon C. Teaford. The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science 120th series, number 2.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. 272. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.50.

This is a fine book with a bad title. In contrast to other observers who discern violent zigs and zags in twentieth-century federalism, Jon C. Teaford sees no earlier decline and hence no late-century renaissance of state authority and creativity. His thesis is that "previous reports of the states' death and rebirth have been exaggerated" (p. 5). Far from languishing in the shadow of a dominant Washington, he argues, the states "were consistently major actors in American history" (p. 6). There was no "rise of the states" because there was no fall.

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