Recent Scholarship
Politics
Abbott, Philip, “‘Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan’: Democratic Theory, Populism, and Philip Roth’s ‘American Trilogy,’” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 1, 2007), 431–52.
Batóg, Wlodzimierz, “‘Nowa Lewica’ I studencka rewolucja w Stanach Zjednoczonych w latach szescdziesiatych: Przeglad badan” (The ‘New Left’ and student revolution in the United States in the 1960s: A survey of scholarship), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 40 (no. 1, 2008), 49–59. In Polish.
Benedict, Les, “James M. Ashley, Toledo Politics, and the Thirteenth Amendment,” University of Toledo Law Review, 38 (Spring 2007), 815–37.
Bertram, Eva C., “The Institutional Origins of ‘Workfarist’ Social Policy,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 203–29.
Bigler, David L., “A Lion in the Path: Genesis of the Utah War, 1857–1858,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 4–21.
Bonica, Joseph S., “‘The Motherly Office of the State’: Cultural Struggle and Comprehensive Administration before the Civil War,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 97–110.
Brand, Donald R., “The President as Chief Administrator: James Landis and the Brownlow Report,” Political Science Quarterly, 123 (Spring 2008), 69–93.
Bridges, Amy, “Managing the Periphery in the Gilded Age: Writing Constitutions for the Western States,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 32–58.
Cox, Daniel G., and Diane L. Duffin, “Cold War, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy Spending Decisions: Dynamic Representation by Congress and the President,” Congress & the Presidency, 35 (Spring 2008), 29–52.
Edwards, Lee, “Les origines du mouvement conservateur américain contemporain” (The origins of the contemporary American conservative movement), in Les conservatisme aux États-Unis (Conservatism in the United States), ed. Julien Toureille and Charles-Philippe David, 13–26. (Quebec City: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2007. isbn 978-2-7605-1496-6.) In French.
Elovitz, Paul H., “Presidential Responses to National Trauma: Case Studies of G. W. Bush, Carter, and Nixon,” Journal of Psychohistory, 36 (Summer 2008), 36–58.
Etcheson, Nicole, “‘A Living, Creeping Lie’: Abraham Lincoln on Popular Sovereignty,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 29 (Summer 2008), 1–25.
Feinstein, Brian D., and Eric Schickler, “Platforms and Partners: The Civil Rights Realignment Reconsidered,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 1–31.
Francis, Stephen S., “Back to Business: Marriner Eccles and the Effect of Public Service on Private Enterprise,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 265–80.
Gadzinski, Michal, “Republikanie i Demokraci” (The Republicans and the Democrats), Mówia Wieki (Warsaw) (no. 10, 2007), 28–32. In Polish.
Geduld, Victoria Phillips, “Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group,” American Communist History, 7 (June 2008), 39–65.
Gerhardt, Michael J., “The Constitutional Significance of Forgotten Presidents,” Cleveland State Law Review, 54 (no. 4, 2006), 467–509.
Giglio, James N., “‘Tom, You’re Not Going to Get [It] On a Silver Platter’: The Inaugural Senate Campaign of Thomas F. Eagleton,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (April 2008), 133–53.
Haefeli, Evan, “A Scandalous Minister in a Divided Community: Ulster County in Leisler’s Rebellion, 1689–1691,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 357–89.
Hicks, Paul, “Caroline O’Day: The Gentlewoman from New York,” New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 287–305.
Iber, Jorge, “‘La Voz de los Otros’: An Overview of the Life and Career of Eliud ‘Pete’ Suazo, Utah’s First Hispanic State Senator, 1951–2001,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 168–87.
James, Scott C., “Timing and Sequence in Congressional Elections: Interstate Contagion and America’s Nineteenth-Century Scheduling Regime,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 181–202.
Jenkins, Jeffery A., and Timothy P. Nokken, “Legislative Shirking in the Pre–Twentieth Amendment Era: Presidential Influence, Party Power, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877–1933,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 111–40.
Keller, Morton, “Governance and Democracy: Public Policy in Modern America,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 177–89.
Kirkendall, Richard S., “Faith and Foreign Policy: An Exploration into the Mind of Harry Truman,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (July 2008), 214–24.
MacKinnon, William P., “And the War Came: James Buchanan, the Utah Expedition, and the Decision to Intervene,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 22–37.
Mason, Patrick Q., “The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah, 1888–1963,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 108–31.
Mauch, Christof, “Der singuläre Präsident: George Washingon, Ikone der amerikanischen Kultur und Geschichte” (The singular president: George Washington, icon of American culture and history), Damals (no. 6, 2008), 36–40. In German.
Mayhew, David R., “Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Presidential Elections: The Historical Record,” Political Science Quarterly, 123 (Summer 2008), 201–28.
McDaniel, Eric L., and Christopher G. Ellison, “God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time,” Political Research Quarterly, 61 (June 2008), 180–91.
Novak, William J., “The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State,” American Historical Review, 113 (June 2008), 752–72.
O’Neill, Karen M., “Broken Levees, Broken Lives, and a Broken Nation after Hurricane Katrina,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 89–108.
Olree, Andy G., “James Madison and Legislative Chaplains,” Northwestern University Law Review, 102 (Winter 2008), 145–221.
Paddock, Joel, “The Gubernatorial Campaigns of Robert Docking, 1966–1972,” Kansas History, 31 (Summer 2008), 86–103.
Piggot, W. Benjamin, “Radicalism in the Cradle of the New Right: The University of California’s Irvine Campus in 1960s Orange County,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2008), 55–85.
Pinsker, Matthew, “Not Always Such a Whig: Abraham Lincoln’s Partisan Realignment in the 1850s,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 29 (Summer 2008), 27–46.
Robinson, Greg, “Le conservatisme chez les minorités raciales et sexuelles” (Conservatism among racial and sexual minorities), in Les conservatisme aux États-Unis (Conservatism in the United States), ed. Julien Toureille and Charles-Philippe David, 41–52. (Quebec City: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2007. isbn 978-2-7605-1496-6.) In French.
Sacher, John M., “‘Our Interest and Destiny Are the Same’: Gov. Thomas Overton Moore and Confederate Loyalty,” Louisiana History, 49 (Summer 2008), 261–86.
Sonenshein, Raphael J., “The Role of the Jewish Community in Los Angeles Politics: From Bradley to Villaraigosa,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2008), 189–205.
Steinle, John, “‘Shall the People Rule?’: Denver Hosts the Democrats, 1908,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2008), 2–19. Heavily illustrated.
Thomas, William G., III, “William Jennings Bryan, the Railroads, and the Politics of ‘Workingmen,’” Nebraska Law Review, 86 (no. 1, 2007), 161–79.
Umezaki, Toru, “Breaking through the Cane-Curtain: The Cuban Revolution and the Emergence of New York’s Radical Youth, 1961–1965,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 18 (2007), 187–209.
Van Atta, John R., “‘A Lawless Rabble’: Henry Clay and the Cultural Politics of Squatters’ Rights, 1832–1841,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 337–78.
Van Wagenen, Michael Scott, “Sam Houston and the Utah War,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 66–78.
Anil, Merih, “Gender and Voting by Nativity and Ethnicity in New York City” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283146.
Cunningham, Sean P., “The Perfect Storm: Social Change, Partisan Realignment, and the Transformation of Modern Texas Conservatism, 1963–1980” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3281517.
Godbout, Jean-François, “Congress, Representation, and Participation: The Influence of Voter Turnout on Legislative Behavior in the House of Representatives” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3278083.
Jensen, Michael James, “Electronic Democracy in America: The Internet and Participation in American Local Politics” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3282798.
Kuzma-Markowska, Sylwia, “Ruch kontroli urodzen w Stanach Zjednoczonych na przykladzie stanu Illinois (1923–1941)” (The birth control movement in the United States and the case of the state of Illlinois, 1923–1941) (University of Bialystok, Poland, 2008). In Polish.
Moore, Robert G., “Separatism in Decline: How Political Involvement Has Moderated the Evangelical Right” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282166.
O’Connor, Mike, “Democratic Capitalism in the United States” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285892.
Posner-Ginsberg, Beth Sarah, “Why Do People Vote? The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286490.
Rana, Aziz, “Settler Empire and the Promise of American Freedom” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285531.
Rangel, Nicolas, “Part of Something Larger than Ourselves: George H. W. Bush and the Rhetoric of the First U.S. War in the Persian Gulf” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3281141.
Sheppard, Simon, “American Media, American Bias: The Partisan Press from Broadsheet to Blog” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288607.
Spurgeon, Ian Michael, “Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3289753.
Whitten, Jeffrey H., “Egalitarianism Begins at Home and in Cohorts: Egalitarianism in United States Public Opinion, 1952–2000” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3287327.
Abbott, Philip, Accidental Presidents: Death, Assassination, Resignation, and Democratic Succession. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 233 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60766-8.)
Atkins, Stephen E., ed., The 9/11 Encyclopedia. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. Vol. 1: xxii, 325 pp. Vol. 2: xxxii, 259 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 978-0-275-99431-0/set.) Includes primary documents.
Bartelt, William E., “There I Grew Up”: Remembering Abraham Lincoln’s Indiana Youth. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. xvi, 240 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87195-263-9.)
Batóg, Wlodzimierz, Protesty studentów Ivy League przeciw wojnie wietnamskiej, 1965–1970 (Ivy League students’ protests against the Vietnam War, 1965–1970). (Kielce: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczego Jana Kochanowskiego, 2008. 360 pp. zl. 40.00, isbn 978-83-7133-356-9.) In Polish.
Bodenhamer, David J., and James W. Ely Jr., eds., The Bill of Rights in Modern America. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv, 322 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35159-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-21991-6.) Revised and expanded. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Conant, Jennet, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xxii, 393 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-7432-9458-4.)
Crockett, David A., Running against the Grain: How Opposition Presidents Win the White House. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xvi, 201 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-60344-010-3.)
Fromkin, David, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xiv, 256 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59420-187-5.)
Goldzwig, Steven R., Truman’s Whistle-Stop Campaign. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 147 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60344-005-9. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-60344-006-6.)
Griffith, R. Marie, and Melani McAlister, eds., Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 536 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8868-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Gutin, Myra G., Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xx, 216 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1583-4.)
Homma, Nagayo, Amerika Daitoryo no Chosen: “Jiyu no Teikoku” no Hikari to Kage (The challenges of American presidents: The light and the shadow of the “empire of liberty”). (Tokyo: ntt, 2008. 287 pp. ¥2,520, isbn 978-4-7571-4185-8.) In Japanese.
Huret, Romain, La fin de la pauvreté? Les experts sociaux en guerre contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis (1945–1974) (The end of poverty? Social experts in the war against poverty in the United States, 1945–1974). (Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2008. 237 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7132-2162-0.) In French.
Junn, Jane, and Kerry L. Haynie, eds., New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 195 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-521-85427-6. Paper, $25.99, isbn 978-0-521-67014-2.)
Kaestle, Carl F., and Alyssa E. Lodewick, eds., To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 320 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1542-1. xvi, 320 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1543-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Laidler, Pawel, Konstytucja Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki: Przewodnik (The Constitution of the United States of America: A guidebook). (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2007. 193 pp. zl. 30.00, isbn 978-83-233-2433-1.) In Polish.
Lehrman, Lewis E., Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. xx, 412 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8117-0361-1.)
Miller, Joseph S., The Wicked Wine of Democracy: A Memoir of a Political Junkie, 1948–1995. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xx, 268 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-295-98801-6.)
Miller, Richard Lawrence, Lincoln and His World: Prairie Politician, 1834–1842. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. viii, 673 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8117-0392-5.)
Moore, Paula, Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 203 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4341-3.)
Nardulli, Peter F., ed., International Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 264 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03335-3. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-252-07544-5.)
Roybal, David, Taking on Giants: Fabián Chávez Jr. and New Mexico Politics. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xvi, 304 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4436-6.)
Schaffer, Frederic Charles, The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xx, 243 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8014-4115-8.)
Schlesinger, Robert, White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. x, 581 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9169-9.)
Toureille, Julien, and Charles-Philippe David, eds., Les conservatisme aux États-Unis (Conservatism in the United States). (Quebec City: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2007. isbn 978-2-7605-1496-6.) In French. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Tucker, David, Enlightened Republicanism: A Study of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. xii, 159 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1792-7.)
Verhagen, Frans, De beste wint nooit: Het ABC van de Amerikaanse verkiezingen (The best never wins: The ABC of American elections). (Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2007. 250 pp. €12.95, isbn 978-90-468-0260-1.) In Dutch.
Wilson, David A., Thomas D’Arcy McGee, vol. 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825–1857. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. xvi, 432 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3357-8.)
Wynn, Neil A., Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt-Truman Era. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2008. xxxii, 497 pp. $105.00, isbn 978-0-8108-5616-5.)
Cross, James U., Around the World with lbj: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 208 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-292-71768-8.)
Monje, Scott C., The Central Intelligence Agency: A Documentary History. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. l, 417 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-313-35028-3.)
Perlstein, Rick, ed., Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. lxxii, 291 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-691-13699-8.)
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