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Canada and the United States

Richard Slotkin. Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality. New York: Henry Holt. 2005. Pp. xii, 639. $35.00.

In his latest book, Richard Slotkin revisits themes from his previous award-winning books as he presents a complex analysis of race, manhood, citizenship, and war in U.S. culture during the first half of the twentieth century. He does so through the stories of men who fought in two U.S. Army regiments during World War I, both recruited from New York City. One, nicknamed the "Harlem Hell Fighters," consisted of African American men; the other, part of a division sometimes known as the "Melting Pot Division," was largely immigrant and included Polish Jews as well as men from Italy, Ireland, Germany, and China. The stories of these men, writes Slotkin, reveal that "democracy, for which the world was to be made safe, had not resolved the most fundamental issues of its own national organization: Who counts as 'American,' and what civil rights must citizenship guarantee?" (p. 3).

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