| Contents | The Journal of American History, 95.3

Vol. 95, No. 3

December 2008


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Articles


The Hazards of the Flush Times: Gambling, Mob Violence, and the Anxieties of America's Market Revolution
Joshua D. Rothman	651

Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater's Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer	678

"Becoming International Again": C. Wright Mills and the Emergence of a Global New Left, 1956–1962
Daniel Geary	710

"Worth a Lot of Negro Votes": Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign
James H. Meriwether	737

Nothing Says "Democracy" Like a Visit from the Queen: Reflections on Empire and Nation in Early American Histories
Christopher Grasso and Karin Wulf	764

Exhibition Reviews


Introduction, by Benjamin Filene and Brian Horrigan	782

"'Action, and Action Now': FDR's First 100 Days," by Gerald Zahavi	783

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, by Benjamin Hufbauer	786

The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, by Jeffrey A. Engel	792

The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, by Michael Pierce	794

"1704 Colonial Encampment Weekend," by Katherine A. Grandjean	799

"French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to Washington's America," by Philip Ranlet	802

"Chicago: Crossroads of America," by Susan Eleanor Hirsch	804

Book Reviews


Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by George C. Rable	808

Holifield, God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America, by Edwin Gaustad	809

Lambert, Religion in American Politics: A Short History, by Robert H. Craig	810

Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians, by John T. Juricek	811

Wesson, Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power, by Julie Anne Sweet	812

Major and Major, A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy, by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke	812

Pencak, Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654–1800, by Henry L. Feingold	813

Doyle, Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940, by Roxann Wheeler	814

Breslaw, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture, by Richard R. Johnson	815

Rabushka, Taxation in Colonial America, by Edwin J. Perkins	816

Kamoie, Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860, by John E. Stealey III	817

Torrey and Miller, The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present, by Patricia D'Antonio	818

Mahaffey, Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation, by Bruce C. Daniels	818

Nagy, Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution, by John Resch	819

Moyer, Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier, by Daniel P. Barr	820

Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, by Suzanne Geissler	821

Casper, Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine, by Rex Ellis	822

Formisano, For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s, by Mark Voss-Hubbard	822

Koschnik, "Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775–1840, by A. Kristen Foster	823

McMichael, Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810, by Robert A. Taylor	824

Fritz, American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition before the Civil War, by Terry Bouton	825

Hoffer, Hoffer, and Hull, The Supreme Court: An Essential History, by Gordon Morris Bakken	826

Wright, One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe, by Richard H. K. Vietor	827

Hixson, The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Jerald A. Combs	828

Elliott, Thaddeus William Harris (1795–1856): Nature, Science, and Society in the Life of an American Naturalist, by Mark V. Barrow Jr.	828

Kaplan, Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship, by Angela G. Ray	829

Lacey, From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications, by Gretchen Townsend Buggeln	830

Bowes, Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West, by Andrew R. L. Cayton	831

Tyler-McGraw, An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia, by Amos J. Beyan	832

Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature, by Shawn Francis Peters	833

Beckert, trans. by Dunlap, Inherited Wealth, by Richard H. Chused	833

Allen, A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America, by Cheryl A. Wells	834

Bell and Yans, eds., Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single, by Michael O'Brien	835

Errington, Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, by Scott W. See	836

Campbell, Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922, by Jeanne D. Petit	837

Robertson, "In the Habit of Acting Together": The Emergence of the Whig Party in Louisiana, 1828–1840, by Thomas E. Jeffrey	838

Laver, Citizens More than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic, by James M. Prichard	838

Ramos, Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821–1861, by Anthony Quiroz	839

Gómez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, by Stephanie Cole	840

Estrada, The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space, by Sarah Schrank	841

Wilhelm, Deutsche Juden in Amerika: Bürgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und jüdische Identität in den Orden B'nai B'rith und Treue Schwestern, 1843–1914 (German Jews in America: Middle-class self-assurance and Jewish identity in the B'nai B'rith Order and True Sisters, 1843–1914), by Stanley Nadel	842

Jackson, The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America, by William L. Joyce	843

Casper, Groves, Nissenbaum, and Winship, eds., A History of the Book in America, vol. 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880, by Oz Frankel	843

Paskoff, Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860, by John K. Brown	844

Miller, Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City, by E. Wayne Carp	845

Lockley, Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South, by Christopher M. Duncan	846

Conser and Payne, eds., Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture, by Steven P. Miller	847

Peters, When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law, by Lynne Curry	848

Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, by Robert Olwell	849

Fraser, Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina, by Sharon Block	850

McDougall, Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829–1877, by Stephen E. Maizlish	850

Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman, by Frederick J. Blue	851

Kendrick and Kendrick, Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union, by Sean Patrick Adams	852

Myers, Senator Henry Wilson and the Civil War, by Allan G. Bogue	853

Einolf, George Thomas: Virginian for the Union, by John David Smith	854

Lehman and Nolt, Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War, by Thomas F. Curran	855

Reid, Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era, by Donald R. Shaffer	855

Humphreys, Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War, by Rita Roberts	856

Cooling, Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam, by Christian B. Keller	857

Jeffrey, Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation, by Hans L. Trefousse	858

Cumbler, From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century, by Dean Grodzins	859

Janney, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause, by Micki McElya	860

Yarbrough, Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century, by Andrew Denson	860

Banner, Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska, by Kenneth N. Owens	861

Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas, by Paul D. Casdorph	862

Cool, Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande, by Andrew R. Graybill	863

Spinks, Law on the Last Frontier: Texas Ranger Arthur Hill, by William D. Carrigan	864

Zieger, For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865, by Brian Kelly	865

Sneider, Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870–1929, by Tracey Jean Boisseau	866

Adams and Keene, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign, by Linda J. Lumsden	866

Moran, Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States, by Robert Eric Barde	867

Yochelson and Czitrom, Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York, by Thomas Dublin	868

Mickulas, Britton's Botanical Empire: The New York Botanical Garden and American Botany, 1888–1929, by Richard A. Overfield	869

Rennella, The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters, by William W. Stowe	870

Wright, USA: Modern Architectures in History, by Miles David Samson	871

Miller, Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist, by Curtis M. Hinsley Jr.	872

Charters, A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz, by Charles Hersch	872

Giggie, After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1915, by Douglas Carl Abrams	873

Blocker, A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860–1930, by Davarian L. Baldwin	874

Jack, The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters, by Lawrence O. Christensen	875

Berman, Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890–1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies, by Thomas A. Krainz	876

Duffin, Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse, by William D. Rowley	877

Jakle and Sculle, Motoring: The Highway Experience in America, by Mark S. Foster	877

Stradling, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, by Thomas Chambers	878

Cobb and Fowler, eds., Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900, by Brian C. Hosmer	879

Li, U.S.-China Educational Exchange: State, Society, and Intercultural Relations, 1905–1950, by Kelly Ann Long	880

Haskell, Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star, by Robert Miraldi	881

Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?, by David T. Brundage	882

Herring, Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History, by David Bergman	883

Benson, Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economics in the Interwar United States, by Timothy A. Hacsi	884

Butters, Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966, by Laura Wittern-Keller	884

Wittern-Keller, Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981, by George Potamianos	885

Fuller-Seeley, ed., Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing, by Richard Maltby	886

Butsch, The Citizen Audience: Crowds, Publics, and Individuals, by Douglas Gomery	887

Alonso, Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War, by Robert C. Cottrell	888

Robinson, Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II, by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff	889

Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life, by Nelson Ouellet	889

Best, Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915–1952, by Jay D. Green	890

Siemens, Metropole und Verbrechen: Die Gerichtsreportage in Berlin, Paris, und Chicago, 1919–1933 (The city and crime: Courtroom reporting in Berlin, Paris, and Chicago, 1919–1933), by Brigitte L. Nacos	891

Trotti, The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South, by Terri L. Snyder	892

Putman, Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle, by Sarah Deutsch	893

Ruiz and Chávez, eds., Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories, by Mark Reisler	894

Arredondo, Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916–39, by Craig A. Kaplowitz	895

Wolfinger, Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love, by David M. P. Freund	896

Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, by Hanes Walton Jr.	897

Parker, Brother's Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937–1962, by Jason Colby	897

Hills, Telecommunications and Empire, by Christopher Simpson	898

Ritchie, Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932, by Richard T. Ortquist	899

Taylor, American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA; When FDR Put the Nation to Work, by James A. Burran	900

Garry, An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court, by David Stebenne	900

Fenby, Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Won One War and Began Another, by Manfred Jonas	901

Ceplair, The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico, by David J. Snyder	902

Smelser and Davies, The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture, by Gerd Horten	903

Wright, Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, by Jessica Gienow-Hecht	904

Corke, U.S. Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, Secret Warfare, and the CIA, 1945–53, by Douglas Little	905

Chernus, Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity, by Anna K. Nelson	906

Engel, ed., Local Consequences of the Global Cold War, by David S. Foglesong	906

Haney, The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States, by Robert C. Bannister	907

Hartman, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, by Ronald Lora	908

Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, by Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod	909

Chambers, Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry, by Pamela Walker Laird	910

Schwartz, It's So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture, by Ulf Jonas Bjork	911

Shaw, Hollywood's Cold War, by David Culbert	912

Sherry, Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy, by K. A. Cuordileone	912

Holt, Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady, by Raffaella Baritono	913

Buell and Sigelman, Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns since 1960, by Gil Troy	914

Link, Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism, by Matthew J. Streb	915

Brennan, Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism, by Laura McEnaney	916

Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, by Marian B. Mollin	917

DeGroot, The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade, by Dominick Cavallo	917

Wiest, Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN, by Dale Andradé	918

Daum, trans. by Geyer, Kennedy in Berlin, by Ronald J. Granieri	919

Kaiser, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy; and Morley, Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA, by David R. Wrone	920

Gustafson, Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964–1974, by Jeffrey F. Taffet	921

Ensalaco, Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11, by Nur Bilge Criss	922

Jeffries, ed., Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar	923

Pattillo, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, by Amanda Irene Seligman	924

Schneller, Blue and Gold and Black: Racial Integration of the U.S. Naval Academy, by Jo Ann O. Robinson	925

Rondón, trans. by Aparicio and White, The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City, by Karl Hagstrom Miller	926

Logevall and Preston, eds., Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969–1977, by Melvin Small	926

Schulman and Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, by Jonathan Soffer	928

Yarbrough, Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice, by Roger L. Goldman	929

Reid, Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul, by Steven Volk	930

Sneh, The Future Almost Arrived: How Jimmy Carter Failed to Change U.S. Foreign Policy, by David F. Schmitz	930

Kaufman, Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House, by Betty Boyd Caroli	931

Parsons, Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television, by Ronald Garay	932

Jensen, Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg, by M. J. Heale	933

Johnson, Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition, by Larry J. Zimmerman	933

Elliott, Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer, by Paul Andrew Hutton	934

Denkler, Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Town, by Todd Moye	935

Movie Reviews


John Adams, by James T. Kloppenberg	937

Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900–1934, by Charles J. Maland	940

Buffalo Bill, by Joy S. Kasson	942

Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers, by John Raeburn	944

Sputnik Mania, by Lary L. May	946

Chicago 10, by Walter L. Hixson	947

Lioness, by Eve Allegra Raimon	949

Web Site Reviews


American State Papers, 1789–1838, by Sally E. Hadden	951

Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean	952

Jewish-American History on the Web, by Ari Kelman	953

Lost in the Virtual Museum: The Smithsonian Online Exhibitions, by John McClymer	954


Letters to the Editor	957

Announcements	959

Recent Scholarship	960

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