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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative
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American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War. By David Grimsted. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx, 372 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-19-511707-7.)

This book has been over thirty years in the making. In the 1960s, while writing a book on the antebellum American theater, David Grimsted became intrigued by the number of times mobs disrupted performances, terrorized English actors, and otherwise tried to impose their will upon the playhouse. At roughly the same time, riotous outbursts on the nation's campuses and in the nation's ghettos had brought new urgency to the question of violence in American society. From these beginnings came Grimsted's present book, American Mobbing, 1828-1861. . . .

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