| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America. By Dorothee E. Kocks. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xx + 255 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, index. £28.50, cloth, UK; $45.00, cloth, US; £11.95, paper, UK; $18.95, paper, US.)

Dream a Little considers how the landscape has served as a canvas for imagining social justice, terming this tradition the "geographic embrace." Even though Kocks reveals that such imaginings hold sway because of a kind of rhetorical trick that makes social visions seem to emanate from the land itself, she encourages us to "lean into" the geographic embrace in order to "dream a little." Mixing history, biography, literary criticism, and the personal essay, Kocks meditates upon disparate topics and figures, encouraging this social dreaming. . . .

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