| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Charlotte M. Canning. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance. (Studies in Theatre History and Culture.) Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 268. $34.95.

Charlotte M. Canning's book examines circuit Chautauqua using a performance perspective as an analytical framework to examine the transformation of the movement from its beginning in 1904 to its demise in the late 1920s. She also explains how circuit performances reflected and changed the local community, American values, and lifestyles. The author justifies the method of the book on the basis that traditional treatments have characterized the movement in terms of "education, politics, reform, and community building but rarely as performance" (p. 5).

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