Book Reviews

THE CLACKAMAS , by Jana Harris WASHINGTON CYCLE , by Les Whitten WALKING AWAY , by H. R. Coursen AMERICAN POLITICS: THE PROMISE OF DISHARMONY . Samuel P. Huntington AMERICA NOW . Marvin Harris POETRY AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL IDEA . J. P. Ward, BLACK ENGLISH AND THE MASS MEDIA . Walter M. Brasch MANLIKE MONSTERS ON TRIAL: EARLY RECORDS AND MODERN EVIDENCE , ed. by Majorie M. Halpin and Michael M. Ames CAVORTING ON THE DEVILS FORK: THE PETE WHETSTONE LETTERS OF C.F.M. NOLAND . Leonard Williams, ed. IMAGES OF THE MEXICAN AMERICAN IN FICTION AND FILM . By Arthur G. Pettit BENJAMIN LEE WHORF: LOST GENERATION THEORIES OF MIND, LANGUAGE, AND RELIGION . By Peter C. Rollins THE FEMALE HERO IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH LITERATURE . By Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEAN: A BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY ADAMS AND HIS FIRST LIFE 1838–1862 . By Edward Chalfant MESMERISM AND THE AMERICAN CURE OF SOULS . By Robert C. Fuller, THE SELF-MADE MAN IN MEJI JAPANESE THOUGHT: FROM SAMURAI TO SALARY MAN . By Earl H. Kinmonth, THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE ELEPHANT MAN . By Michael Howell and Peter Ford THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS . By John B. Jackson AN EMPIRE FOR THE MASSES . By William H. Schneider NOBODY SPEAKS FOR ME: SELFPORTRAITS OF AMERICAN WORKING CLASS WOMEN By Nancy Seifer ANATOMY OF AN ILLNESS AS PERCEIVED BY THE PATIENT . By Norman Cousins CONFESSIONS OF A CONSERVATIVE . By Garry Wills