| Contents | Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8.1

Vol. 8, No. 1

January 2009


Staff

Contributors

Editor's Note	5

2008 Presidential Address

All Politics Are Local: Another Look at the 1890s
Peter H. Argersinger	7

Alan Dawley (1943–2008): Memorial and Assessment

Alan Dawley: A Personal Remembrance
Ann Marie Nicolosi	25

The Scholarly Odyssey of an Activist Historian: Alan Dawley in Historiography
Ian Tyrrell	29

Essays

Blaming Martin Irons: Leadership and Popular Protest in the 1886 Southwest Strike
Theresa A. Case	51

Guarding the Switch: Cultivating Nationalism during the Pullman Strike
Troy Rondinone	83

The Enigma of Meyer Lissner: Los Angeles's Progressive Boss
Mark H. Stevens	111

Book Reviews

Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida D. Donald / Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness by Joshua David Hawley
Reviewed by Edward P. Kohn	137

After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley by David Vaught
Reviewed by Robert M. Senkewicz	142

Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876–1893 by Ben Railton
Reviewed by Kevin B. Sheets	145

The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South by Michael Ayers Trotti
Reviewed by Christopher Waldrep	148

A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform by Laura M. Westhoff
Reviewed by Ruth Crocker	150

[On the back cover: Violence at East St. Louis during the 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike. Harper's Weekly, Apr. 17, 1886.]

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