| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. By Robert D. Johnston. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxiii + 394 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, index. $35.00, £24.95.)

In recent years, community studies have become one of the most fruitful forms of historical inquiry in the study of the American West. Monographs ranging from Bonnie Christensen's Red Lodge and the Mythic West (Lawrence, 2002) to Laurie Mercier's Anaconda (Urbana, 2001) offer readers the opportunity to explore a variety of connections between a given town or city and larger historical trends of the region or the United States as a whole. Robert Johnston's Radical Middle Class, although having its own distinctive focus, is an examination of a critical phase in the history of a western community with larger implications for twentieth century U. S. history, particularly in terms of analyzing the sociopolitical dynamics of the middle class.

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