| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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"Work or Fight!": Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One. By Gerald E. Shenk. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. x, 194 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 1-4039-6175-1. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 1-4039-6177-8.)

Gerald E. Shenk is one of a growing group of scholars building on John Whiteclay Chambers's To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (1987), which examined the creation and implementation of the World War I draft. Shenk, Theodore Kornweibel, K. Walter Hickel, and others have mined federal, state, and local records to investigate what draft policies say about politics, state-building, and the impact of race, class, and gender on mobilization. Through a focus on gender and race, Shenk shows how conscription constructed and maintained a system that privileged some white men and allowed others to work toward white manhood, while relegating others to permanent inferiority in a racist patriarchy.

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