| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947. By Michael J. Pfeifer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x, 245 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02917-8.)

Michael J. Pfeifer has produced more than another stimulating account of the form of the quintessential American violence known as lynching. Indeed, this beautifully written and extremely well-informed study is a landmark that elevates lynching scholarship to a whole new level. Not since W. Fitzhugh Brundage's Lynching in the New South (1993) has there been such an important book in this field. Building on previous work by countless other scholars, including Brundage, Pfeifer offers us the first national study of lynching. And, in this first cross-regional study of lynching and criminal justice, he skillfully looks into the lyncher's all-encompassing and unrelenting commitment to what is termed "rough justice."

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