| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947. By Michael J. Pfeifer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x + 245 pp. Maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

During the last thirty years, lynching—once either ignored or seen through the cloudy glass of racism or western romanticism—has increasingly engaged historians' attention. Most studies have focused on the South. Some, such as James Madison's A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America (New York, 2001) shed light on other parts of the country, but such illumination usually has been narrowly focused. In Rough Justice, a book whose brevity belies its importance, Michael Pfeifer broadens the focus and intensifies the light by chronicling, analyzing, and comparing seven decades of lynching in New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington, California, and Louisiana.

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