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Lawrence J. Friedman. Menninger: The Family and the Clinic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Richard V. Francaviglia. Hard Places. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 1991. 237 pages. William D. Miller. Pretty Bubbles in the Air: America in 1919. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. $29.95 (cloth). Spencer K. Wertz. Talking a Good Game: Inquiring into the Principles of Sport. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1991. 275 pg. $28.50 cloth, $12.50 paper. Peter Levine, ed. Baseball History 4: An Annual of Original Baseball Research. New York: Meckler, 1991. Hardback. $39.50. Western Rivermen, 1763-1841: Ohio And Mississippa Boatmen And The Myth Of The Alligator Horse. By Michael Allen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. David C. Morton, with Charles K. Wolfe. DeFord Bailey: A Black Star In Early Country Music. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Illustrated. 199 pp. Hardback. $29.95. Reginald J. Bartlette. Off The Record—Motown By Master Number, 1959-1989: Volume One—Singles. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Popular Culture, Ink,. 1991. Illustrated. 504 pp. Hardback. $55.00. Charles Panati. Panati's Parade Of Fads, Follies, And Manias: The Origins of Our Most Cherished Obsessions. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. Illustrated. 491 pp. Paperback. $13.00. Jimmy Guterman. Rockin' My Life Away: Listening To Jerry Lee Lewis. Nashville, Tennes-see: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991. Illustrated. 233 pp. Hardback, $16.95. Barbara J. Pruett. Marty Robbins: Fast Cars And Country Music. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1990. Illustrated. 601 pp. Hardback, $59.50. Wolfgang Mieder, Editor in Chief; Stewart A. Kingsbury and Kelsie B. Harder, Editors. A Dictionary of American Proverbs. New York: Oxford, 1991. Thomas Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists From Cohan To Sondheim. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991. 264 pp. $19.95.     

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Luedtke, Luther, ed. Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States. Lucy Rollin. Cradle and All: A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Reading of Nursery Rhymes. Fred W. Peterson. Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest 1850-1920. James M.O'Toole. Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'ConnelZ and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. R. Douglas Hunt. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Lirtle Dixie. Columbia and London: Marilyn Irvin Holt. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America.     

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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720‐ 1870. Lisa Norling Mark Twain and Me. Dorothy Quick From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, eds Madcaps, Screwballs and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture. Lori Landay The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force: An Historical Perspective. Herbert Applebaum From a Single Window: Michigan State University and Its Press, 1947‐1997. Maurice Hungiville George Washington and the Backcountry. Warren R. Hofstra, ed Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867‐1944. Adrienne Fried Block How Jews Became White Folks and What that Says About Race in America. Karen Brodkin Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past. Leah Dilworth Many Wests: Place, Culture and Regional Identity. David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner, ed Wisconsin Folklore. James P. Leary, ed Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism. Daniel Horowitz The New Dollars and Dreams: American Incomes and Economic Change. Frank Levy     

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Art in the Age of Mass Media, John A. Walker. New England in Fiction 1787–1990. Robert B. Slocum. By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America. Nicholas K. Bromell. Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Eric Lott. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810. Shane White. M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. H. Bruce Franklin. The Sixties: From Memory to History. David Farber, The Great American Outlaw: A Legacy of Fact and Fiction. Frank Richard Prassel. American Iconology. Edited by David C. Miller. The Ethnic Detective. Peter Freese. Wilton S. Dillon and Neil G. Kotler, editors. The Statue of Liberty REVISITED. Looking for God in the Suburbs. James Hudnut-Beumler. A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America. A. Robert Lee Historic Ranches of Texas. Lawrence Clayton and J.U. Salvant. Likenesses and Landscape: Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype. Delores A. Kilgo. The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. Carol Nackenoff. All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture. Creation's Journey: Native American Identity and Belief. Garrison Keillor. Peter A. Scholl. Handbook of Old Time Radio: A Comprehensive Guide to Golden Age Radio Listening and Collecting. Jon D. Swartz and Robert C. Reinehr. Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling & Saving the West. John B. Wright.     

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Rowe and Berg. The Vietnam War and American Culture Karal Ann Marling and John Wetenhall. Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero Fredric Jameson. Signatures of the Visible Michael Kammen. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture Michael Wallis. Route 66: The Mother Road Tom Snyder. The Route 66 Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion Quinta Scott (photographs) and Susan Croce Kelly (text). Route 66: The Highway and Its People John Wood, ed. America & The Daguerreotype David Graham. Only in America: Some Unexpected Scenery Davis Sprague Herresboff. Labor into Art: The Theme of Work in Nineteenth-Century American Literature C. Richard Gillespie. The James Adams Floating Theatre Karen Linn. That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture Nigey Lennon. The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain in California     

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David Charles Sloane. The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History Manjunath Pendakur. Canadian Dreams and American Control Richard M. Fried. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective Emily Toth. Kate Chopin: The Life of the Author of The Awakening Martin E. Marty. Modern American Religion, Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict 1919-1941 William W. Savage, Jr. Comic Books and America, 1945-1954 Gary W. Gallagher. Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign Jeffrey N. Lash. Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865 Francis Edward Abernethy, ed. The Bounty of Texas David A. Thornburg. Galloping Bungalows: The Rise And Demise of the American House Trailer     

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David Hackett Fischer. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. William Barlow. “Looking U p At Down”: The Emergence of Blues Culture. Carl Ryant. Profit's Prophet: Garet Garrett (1878-1954). Jan Bakker. Pastoral in Antebellum Southern Romance. Robert L. Gambone. Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940. Cathy N. Davidson, editor. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Bernard F. Dick. Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. Marek Golebiowski. Being Alive: American Musical: Text, Performance, Values. Alton C. Morris, editor. Folksongs of Florida. Karen Lystra. Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America. Leonard Ashley. What's In A Name?. Jerry V. Grant and Douglas R. Allen. Shaker Furniture Makers. Andrew R.L. Cayton and Peter S. Onuf. The Midwest and the Nation. We Are Part of History: The Story of the Orphan Trains. Santa Fé. Andrew Gulliford. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, 1885-1985. Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain. The American West: A Twentieth-Century History. Joseph J. Fucini and Suzy Fucini. Working for the Japanese: Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant. Julie Thompson Klein. Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory & Practice. Frank W. Hoffman and William G. Bailey, editors. Arts and Entertainment Fads. Scot M. Guenter. The American Flag, 1777-1924: Cultural Shifts From Creation to Codification. Samuel Kinser. Photographs by Norman Magden. Carnival American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile. Robert Schmuhl. Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality. Gunther Barth. Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History. Robert S. Conte. The History of the Greenbrier, America's Resort. Susan Coultrap-McQuin. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century. Stephen J. Whitfield. The Culture of the Cold War. Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May. Buffalo Bill and His Wild West.     

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Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography. Joanna E. Rapf and Gary L. Green Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe 1904-1914. David Stevenson Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America. Joshua Gamson Messages from the Underground: Transnational Radio in Resistance and Solidarity. Nancy Street and Marilyn J. Matelski Comic Art of Europe: An International, Comprehensive Bibliography. John A. Lent Politically Incorrect. Ralph Reed Commercial Culture: The Media System and the Public Interest. Leo Bogart Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Margot A. Henrikson Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays. Leigh Eric Schmidt Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time. Jonathan Arac Cultural Identities. Mike Stony and Peter Childs, eds Seductive Journeys: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age. Harvey Levenstein A Social History of Wet Nursing in America from Breast to Bottle. Janet Golden Think a Second Time. Dennis Prager Perry Mason: The Authorship and Reproduction of Popular Hero. J. Dennis Bounds Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture to Popular Culture. Alex Edelstein Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America. Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute, eds Dickens' Journalism: The Amusements of the People and Other Papers. Michael Slater, ed Monster: Living off the Big Screen. John Gregory Dunne Revolt among the Sharecroppers. Howard Kester Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Thomas G. Deveny After Pomp and Circumstance: High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945. Kathleen Stokker, ed My American Century. Studs Terkel Love and Ideology in the Afternoon: Soap Opera, Women, and Television Genre. Laura Stempel Mumford In the Hands of a Happy God: The “No-Hellers” of Central Appalachia. Howard Dorgan The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture. Jennifer Scanlon The Language of Power: Women and Literature, 1945 to the Present. Roberta Rosenberg The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of the 1960s American Experimental Cinema. Wheeler Winston Dixon A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America. Mark Caldwell     

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Jersey Diners. Peter Genovese. Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines. Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson. Critical Conditions: American Culture at the Crossroads. Eleanor Heartney. RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative. Kris Lackey. Ohio in Historic Postcards: Self-Portrait of a State. H. Roger Grant. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883. Gary Laderman. The Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Stephen J. McGovern. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Richard Handler and Eric Gable. The Theming of America: Dreams, Visions, and Commercial Spaces. Mark Gottdiener. Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature. Marilyn C. Wesley. Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, eds. Of the People, By the People, For the People and Other Quotations from Abraham Lincoln. Gabor S. Boritt, ed. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock'n 'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Peter Biskind. Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print. Ronald Weber. Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture. Mark Seltzer. Steven Spielberg. Joseph McBride. The Abbott & Costello Story: Sixty Years of “Who's on First?” Stephen Cox and John Lofflin. Un/popular Culture: Lesbian Writing after the Sex Wars. Kathleen Martindale. The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. David Lehman. Mexico between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1940. Friedrich E. Schuler. Our Governors' Mansions. Cathy Keating. Home Materials: Ohio's Nineteenth-Century Regional Women's Fiction. Sandra Parker, ed. Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture. Annette Stott. Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture since World War II. Richard Pells. Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women. Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens, eds. Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Diana Tietjens Meyers, ed. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. Kathy Peiss. Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Ronald C. Tobey. Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality. Neal Gabler. Carl Sagan's Universe. Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson, eds.     

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Melinda Bollar. God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society Carol Blesser, ed. In Joy and Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830–1900 Pamela Grundy. You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama Lillian B. Miller and David C. Ward, eds. New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration Page Smith. Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America Francis Edward Abernethy, ed. Texas Toys and Games Michael J. Siskis, ed. Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review David S. Shields. Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics and Commerce in British America, 1690–1750 David Zarefsky. Lincoln Douglas and Slavery in the Crucible of Public Debate James F. O'Gorman. Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865–1915 John F. Sears. Sacred Places Marjorie Harness Goodwin. He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children Allen Guttmann, Richard D. Mandell, Steven A. Riess, Stephen Hardy, and Donald G. Kyle. Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology. Ed. Donald G. Kyle and Gary D. Stark William Novaks and Moshe Waldoks, eds. The Big Book of New American Humor: The Best of the Past 25 Years Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston. The Future South. A Historical Perspective For The Twenty-First Century Kenneth Allen De Ville. Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America: Origins and Legacy Ronald R. Geibert and Patrick B. Nolan. Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation Howard Lawrence Preston. Dirt Roads To Dixie: Accessibility and Modernization in the South, 1885–1935 Kirk Abner. Tennessee Travel Tapes: Bristol to Nashville Ellen Huening Makowski. Scenic Parks and Landscape Values Richard W. Wilkie and Jack Tager, eds. Historical Atlas of Massachusetts James Guimond. American Photography and The American Dream Karal Ann Marling. Blue Ribbon: A Social and Pictorial History of the Minnesota State Fair Richard W. Slatta. Cowboys of the Americas Nicolaus Mills. Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America Steven Saunders and Deane L. Root. The Music of Stephen C. Foster     

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Mythmaking and Metaphor in Black Women's Fiction. Jacqueline de Weever. The American Stage. Ron Engle & Tice L. Miller, editors. Vietnam and the Southern Imagination. Owen W. Gilman, Jr. R.B. Bennett: The Calgary Years. James H. Gray. Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Canada. AIlan Greer and Ian Radforth, editors. Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec: The Perception of an Outsider. N.E.S. Griffiths and G.A. Rawlyk, editors. Fallen Women, Problem Girls. Regina G. Kunzel. Chiropractic in America: The History of a Medical Alternative. J. Stuart Moore. Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn. Tom Quick. Victorian America and the Civil War. Anne C. Rose. Black Women's Writing. Gina Wisker, editor.     

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Books reviewed: Arturo Warman, Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance Stanley I. Kutler (ed.), Dictionary of American History Solomon H. Katz (ed.), Encyclopedia of Food and Culture M. Alison Kibler, Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall (eds.), The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture Gabor Boritt (ed.), The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon Gregg Camfield (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain Kathleen Diffley (ed.), To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861‐1876 Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc (eds.), Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture Janice Rutherford, Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter (eds.), Sometimes the Dragon Wins: Yet More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter (eds.), Why Don't Sheep Shrink When it Rains?: A Further Collection of Photocopier Folklore Melody Graulich and Stephen Tatum (eds.), Reading The Virginian in the New West N. J. Higham, King Arthur: Myth‐Making and History Robert Crego, Sports and Games of the 18^th and 19^th Centuries Kenneth A. Breisch, Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America: A Study in Typology Ken Albala, Food in Early Modern Europe Charles H. Gold, “Hatching Ruin,” or Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy Michael Thomas Carroll, Popular Modernity in America     

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Pop Art and Consumer Culture: American Super Market. Christin J. Mamiya Hail to the Candidate: Presidential Campaigns From Banners to Broadcasts. Keith Melder Domestic Novelists of the Old South: Defenders of Southern Culture. Elizabeth Moss Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62. Donna DeSalvo, Paul Schimmel, et al The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History. Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, editors Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations. Archie Green Reading Rodney King: Reading Urban Uprising. Robert Gooding-Williams, editor Metapop: Self-Referentiality in American Popular Culture. Michael Dunne. Studies in Popular Culture; M. Thomas Inge, editor Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right. Michael D' Antonio Kentucky Bluegrass Country. R. Gerald Alvey Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present. Ally Acker The Cultural Geography of the United States. A Revised Edition. Wilbur Zelinsky Roadfood: The All-new, Updated and Expanded Edition of the Classic Guide to America's Best Diners, Small-town Cafes, BBQ Joints and Other Very Special Eateries Serving Great, Inexpensive Regional Food. Jane and Michael Stern Images of American Life: A History of Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Radio and Television. Joel Spring Russian Eyes on American Literature. Sergei Chakovsky and M. Thomas Inge, editors American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services. Jessica Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth, editors Immigrants and the American City. Thomas Muller Studies in the Western. 1.1, 1992-93 British English For American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs, and Places of British Life und Literature. David Grote Kenneth Wylie and Dennis Hickey. An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. John E. Kleber, Editor in Chief The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant. Edited with an Introduction and notes by Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. James M. O'Toole The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, (1872-1958). Jack Beatty Discourse and Culture: The Creation of America. Alun Munslow Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People. Glen E. Lich, editor Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida. Robert E. Snyder and Jack B. Moore The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism. A. Gregory Schneider The Tragedy of Abundance: Myth Restoration in American Culture. Jerome O. Steffen Hard At Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940. Kathryn Grover, editor Baseball Between the Wars: Memories of the Game by the Men Who Played It. Eugene Murdock     

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High Visibility: How Executives, Politicians, Entertainers, Athletes, and Other Professionals Create, Market, and Achieve Successful Images . Irving Rein, Philip Kottler, and Martin Stoller The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears . Donald R. Katz Tippecanoe and Trinkets Too: The Material Culture of American Presidential Campaigns, 1828-1984 . Roger A. Fischer     

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Alvar W. Carlson. The Spanish-American Homeland: Four Centuries in New Mexico's Rio Arriba Alfred Emile Cornebise. Art from the Trenches: America's Uniformed Artists in World War I Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture IV Susan Willis. A Primer for Daily Life Wayne Gudmundson. Testaments in Wood: Finnish Log Structures at Embarrass Minnesota Barbara Melosh. Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater Hubert Wilhelm. Log Cabins & Castles: Virginia Settlers in Ohio Thomas L. Connelly and Michael D. Senecal, editors. Almanac of American Presidents from 1789 to the Present Donald J. Greiner. Women Enter the Wilderness: Male Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980s Frances F. Dunwell. The Hudson River Highlands Lester C. Olson. Emblems of American Community in the Revolutionary Era Ronald Edsforth and Larry Bennett, editors. Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America Gil Troy. See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate Michael Ann William. Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina Theodore C. Humphrey and Lin T. Humphrey, editors. “We Gather Together”: Food and Festival in American Life Russell E. Richey. Early American Methodism Peter Stearns. Jealousy: The Evolution of an Emotion in American History Thomas McCulloch. The Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters Donald C. Wetherell and Irene Kmet. Useful Pleasures: The Shaping of Leisure in Alberta 1896-1945 Hugh Brody. Living Arctic-Hunters of the Canadian North Philippe Dube (translated by Tony Martin-Sperry). Charlevoix: Two Centuries at Murray Bay Manoly R. Lupul, editor. Ukrainian Canadians, Multiculturalism, and Separatism: An Assessment. Proceedings of the Conference Sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Frances Swyripa. Ukrainian Canadians—a suruey of the portrayal in English-language works W. Roman Petryshyn, editor. Changing Realities: Social Trends Among Ukrainian Canadians William A. Czumer. Recollections About the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada Jars Balan, editor. Identifications: Ethnicity and the Writer in Canada Manoly R. Lupul, editor. Visible Symbols: Cultural Expression Among Canada's Ukrainians Manoly R. Lupul, editor. OSVITA Ukrainian Bilingual Education Jars Balan and Yuri Klynov, editors. Yarmarok: Ukrainian Writings in Canada Since the Second World War Radomir Bilash and Barbara Wilberg, editors. Tkanyna: An Exhibit of Ukrainian Weaving Manoly R. Lupul, editor. Continuity and Change: The Cultural Life of Alberta's First Ukrainians David J. Goa, editor. The Ukrainian Religious Experience, Tradition, and the Canadian Cultural Context Ian H. Angus, editor. Ethnicaty in a Technological Age     

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During the 40-odd years that the Alsatian-born, French-trained artist Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg lived in Britain, he became a triple celebrity. A decade after his migration to Britain in 1771 his achievements as a picturesque landscape artist were celebrated in election to the Royal Academy. During the same period he also worked for David Garrick at Drury Lane theatre as the highest-paid scenographer in Britain. Critics hailed him as a genius for revolutionizing Britain's dull staging traditions along the spectacular and naturalistic lines of France's Giovanni Servandoni. Finally, as the creator in 1781–82 of a pioneering commercial moving picture show, the Eidophusikon, he was acclaimed by leading arbiters of artistic taste such as Reynolds and Gainsborough. Well-heeled West End crowds flocked to performances, and the Eidophusikon was widely imitated in Europe, the United States, and the British colonies.

Yet de Loutherbourg's professional and social standing remained surprisingly fragile. At periodic intervals he was accused publicly of charlatanry, or its British equivalent, quackery. This damaging smear surfaced on each of the three occasions that de Loutherbourg shifted career direction. And though he managed to redeem himself on each occasion, it was only by making serious artistic and professional compromises. In this sense, the spectre of quackery haunted and shaped Philippe de Loutherbourg's British career, making him a fascinating test-case of quackery's shifting valencies at the dawn of the modern industrial age.     

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The Bronx: Lost, Found, and Remembered 1935-1975. Stephen Samtur and Martin Jackson. The Antidepressant Era. David Healy. The Cinematic City. David Clarke, ed. Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Ketnam War. W. D. Ehrhart. Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American Research. Duane Anderson, ed. Stars in the Corps: Movie Actors in the United States Marines. James E. Wise, Jr., and Anne Collier Rehill. The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944. Adrienne Fried Block. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. Michael Kammen.