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Alderson, Robert J., Jr., “Entangled Borderlands: The 1794 Projected French Invasion of Spanish East Florida and Atlantic History,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2009), 54–82.

Amenta, Edwin, et al., “All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why smo Families Appeared in the New York Times in the Twentieth Century,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Aug. 2009), 636–56.

Asen, Robert, “Ideology, Materiality, and Counterpublicity: William E. Simon and the Rise of a Conservative Counterintelligentsia,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (Aug. 2009), 263–88.

Balfour, Joshua, “Confronting Entrenched Weapons Programs: A Short Story of Success from the George W. Bush Administration,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 93–108.

Barreto, Matt A., Mara Cohen-Marks, and Nathan D. Woods, “Are All Precincts Created Equal? The Prevalence of Low-Quality Precincts in Low-Income and Minority Communities,” Political Research Quarterly, 62 (Sept. 2009), 445–58.

Berry, Michael J., “Controversially Executing the Law: George W. Bush and the Constitutional Signing Statement,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (Sept.–Dec. 2009), 244–71.

Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel, “‘Striving for Equal Rights for All’: Woman Suffrage in Nebraska, 1855–1882,” Nebraska History, 90 (Summer 2009), 84–103. Heavily illustrated.

Bond, Jon R., Richard Fleisher, and Glen S. Krutz, “Malign Neglect: Evidence That Delay Has Become the Primary Method of Defeating Presidential Appointments,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (Sept.–Dec. 2009), 226–43.

Bowen, Michael D., “The Strange Tale of Wesley and Florence Garrison: Racial Crosscurrents of the Postwar Florida Republican Party,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2009), 1–29.

Branton, Regina P., “The Importance of Race and Ethnicity in Congressional Primary Elections,” Political Research Quarterly, 62 (Sept. 2009), 459–73.

Brown, Clyde, and Gayle K. Pluta Brown, “Iowa University Towns and the Twenty-sixth Amendment: The First Test of the Newly Enfranchised Student Vote in 1971,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Fall 2009), 395–442.

Caraley, Demetrios James, “Three Trends Over Eight Presidential Elections, 1980–2008: Toward the Emergence of a Democratic Majority Realignment?,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Fall 2009), 423–42.

Crider, Jonathan B., “De Bow’s Revolution: The Memory of the American Revolution in the Politics of the Sectional Crisis, 1850–1861,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (Sept. 2009), 317–32.

De Leon, Cedric, Manali Desai, and Cihan Tugal, “Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages in the United States, India, and Turkey,” Sociological Theory, 27 (Sept. 2009), 193–219.

Eastman, Carolyn, “Fight Like a Man: Gender and Rhetoric in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Peace Movement,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (Sept. 2009), 247–71.

Engel, Stephen M., “Before the Countermajoritarian Difficulty: Regime Unity, Loyal Opposition, and Hostilities toward Judicial Authority in Early America,” Studies in American Political Development, 23 (Oct. 2009), 189–217.

Engels, Jeremy, “Uncivil Speech: Invective and the Rhetorics of Democracy in the Early Republic,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (Aug. 2009), 311–34.

Ernst, Daniel R., “Ernst Freund, Felix Frankfurter, and the American Rechtsstaat: A Transatlantic Shipwreck, 1894–1932,” Studies in American Political Development, 23 (Oct. 2009), 171–88.

Gabrielson, Teena, “James Madison’s Psychology of Public Opinion,” Political Research Quarterly, 62 (Sept. 2009), 431–44.

George, Joseph, Jr., “The Conspiracy Trial’s ‘Suppressed Testimony’: An Attempt to Implicate Jefferson Davis in Lincoln’s Assassination,” Lincoln Herald, 111 (Summer 2009), 94–127.

Greenhill, Brian, Layna Mosley, and Aseem Prakash, “Trade-Based Diffusion of Labor Rights: A Panel Study, 1986–2002,” American Political Science Review, 103 (Nov. 2009), 1–22.

Grow, Matthew J., “The Suffering Saints: Thomas L. Kane, Democratic Reform, and the Mormon Question in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 681–710.

Hanchett, William, “Lincoln and the Tripp Thesis, Part Three,” Lincoln Herald, 111 (Summer 2009), 74–93.

Hirata, Miwako, “Amerika nambu sanberuto no kyôwatôka to daitoshiken kôgai” (The rise of the Republican party in the sun belt south), Musashi daigaku jimbungakkai zasshi (Tokyo), 40 (no. 2 2008), 187–214. In Japanese.

Holloway, Pippa, “‘A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote’: Disfranchisement for Larceny in the South, 1874–1890,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Nov. 2009), 931–62.

Holton, Woody, “Primitive Accumulation,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Fall 2009), 21–36.

Horvat, Ana, “Praksa Vrhovnog suda SAD temeljem ‘Commerce Clause’ Ustava: Seizmograf mijena federalizma” (Practice of the Supreme Court of the usa based on the ‘commerce clause’ of the constitution: Seismograph of federalism change), Pravnik: Casopis za pravna i drustvena pitanja, 41 (2007), 95–124. In Croatian.

Huret, Romain, “All in the Family Again? Political Historians and the Challenge of Social History,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 3, 2009), 239–63.

Huret, Romain, and Pauline Peretz, “Political History Today on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 3, 2009), 298–307.

Jang, Jun-Kab, “Johnson Hangjeongbu Chogiui Hanmi Kwangye (1964–66)” (The Johnson’s administrations early Korean-American relations (1964–66)), Yoksawa Damron/History and Discourse, 52 (April 2009), 245–71. In Korean.

Jang, Jun-Kab, “The Nixon Hangjeongbueui Asia Detentwa Hanmi Kwangye” (Nixon administration’s Asian détente and Korean-American relations), Yoksawa Gyonggye/History and Boundaries, 70 (March 2009), 195–220. In Korean.

Jeong, Gyung-Ho, Gary J. Miller, and Itai Sened, “Closing the Deal: Negotiating Civil Rights Legislation,” American Political Science Review, 103 (Nov. 2009)

Justesen, Benjamin R., “‘The Class of ’83’: Black Watershed in the North Carolina General Assembly,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (July 2009), 282–308.

Kamens, David H., “The Expanding Polity: Theorizing the Links between Expanded Higher Education and the New Politics of the Post-1970s,” American Journal of Education, 116 (Nov. 2009), 99–124.

Kihira, Eisaku, “Seiseisuru Amerika minshushugi” (American democracy generated: Modernity brought about by the revolution and the expanding republic), in Amerika minshushugi no kako to genzai (The past and present of American democracy), by Eisaku Kihira, 19–65. (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2008. 334 pp. ¥4,725, isbn 978-4-62305-140-3.) In Japanese.

Kostadinov, Biljana, and Sanja Baric, “Neposredna demokracija u SAD-u: Ustavna inicijativa” (Direct democracy in the usa: Constitutional initiative), Hrvatska javna uprava: Casopis za teoriju i praksu javne uprave, 7 (no. 3, 2007), 659–78. In Croatian.

Koyama, Kumiko, “The Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act: Why Did the President Sign the Bill?,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 2, 2009), 163–86.

Kozuskanich, Nathan, “Originalism in a Digital Age: An Inquiry into the Right to Bear Arms,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 585–606.

Kreps, Sarah, “American Grand Strategy after Iraq,” Orbis, 53 (Fall 2009), 629–45.

Lashley, Marilyn, “The Politics of Cognitive Dissonance: Spin, the Media, and Race (and Ethnicity) in the U.S. Presidential Election,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 39 (Winter 2009), 364–77.

Lax, Jeffrey R., and Justin H. Phillips, “Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness,” American Political Science Review, 103 (Aug. 2009), 367–86.

Loomis, Christopher M., “The Politics of Uncertainty: Lobbyists and Propaganda in Early Twentieth-Century America,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 2, 2009), 187–213.

Lowitt, Richard, “Water and Power: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 1, 1935–1944,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Summer 2009), 132–65.

Lui, Mary Ting Yi, “Saving Young Girls from Chinatown: White Slavery and Woman Suffrage, 1910–1920,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (Sept. 2009), 393–417.

Malanson, Jeffrey, “‘Entangling Alliances with None’: John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and the Impact of Conflicting Interpretations,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 26–36.

Marks, Gary, Heather Mbaye, and Hyung Min Kim, “Radicalism or Reformism? Socialist Parties before World War I,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Aug. 2009), 615–35.

Miscamble, Wilson D., “Roosevelt, Truman, and the Development of Postwar Grand Strategy,” Orbis, 53 (Fall 2009), 553–70.

Morser, Eric John, “Hinterland Dreams and Midwestern Rails: Public Power and Railroading in Nineteenth-Century La Crosse, Wisconsin,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 376–410.

Nash, Margaret A., “Contested Identities: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Patriotism in Early American Textbooks,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Nov. 2009), 417–41.

Opie, Frederick Douglass, “Developing Their Minds without Losing Their Soul: Black and Latino Student Coalition-Building in New York, 1965–1969,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 79–108.

Parent, Joseph M., “Europe’s Structural Idol: An American Federalist Republic?,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Fall 2009), 513–36.

Park, Insook, “‘Vietnam Syndrome’ Gwa ‘Kirkpatrick Doctrine’” (The ‘Vietnam syndrome’ and the ‘Kirkpatrick doctrine’), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 29 (May 2009), 123–55. In Korean.

Pavic, Denis, and Ivan Balta, “Uzroci velike gospodarske krize u SAD-u i Hooverovo upravljanje krizom” (Causes of the Great Depression in the United States and Hoover’s crisis management), Povijesni zbornik: Godisnjak za kulturu i provijesno naslijede/ Sveuciliste J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za povijest, 1 (no. 1–2, 2006–2007), 137–55. In Croatian.

Pluth, Edward J., “A ‘Negro Colony’ for Todd County,” Minnesota History, 61 (Fall 2009), 312–24. Heavily illustrated.

Rocca, Michael S., “9/11 and Presidential Support in the 107th Congress,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (Sept.–Dec. 2009), 272–98.

Rogers, William Warren, Jr., “‘For the Destruction of Radicalism’: A Reconstruction Case Study,” Alabama Review, 62 (July 2009), 190–209.

Rose, Mark, “The Political Economy of American Transportation,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 90–97.

Rousmaniere, Kate, “The Short, Radical Life of Pearl McGill,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Fall 2009), 9–19.

Sbardellati, John, “‘The Maltz Affair’ Revisited: How the American Communist Party Relinquished Its Cultural Influence at the Dawn of the Cold War,” Cold War History (London), 9 (Nov. 2009), 489–500.

Shreve, Bradley G., “‘We Must Become One People, United, with a Singleness of Purpose’: The American Indian Chicago Conference of 1961,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Summer 2009), 107–28.

Smithers, Gregory D., “Barack Obama and Race in the United States: A History of the Future,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 1–16.

Sutto, Antoinette, “The Borders of Absolutism: William Penn, Charles Calvert, and the Limits of Royal Authority, 1680–1685,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Summer 2009), 276–300.

Sutton, Mark, “Roadmaps for the Soul: History and Cartography in Bob Dylan’s Early Songs,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 17–33.

Valelly, Richard M., “The Reed Rules and Republican Party Building: A New Look,” Studies in American Political Development, 23 (Oct. 2009), 115–42.

Volk, Kyle G., “The Peril’s of ‘Pure Democracy’: Minority Rights, Liquor Politics, and Popular Sovereignty in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 641–679.

Wada, Mitsuhiro, “Jôji Washinton no ‘teikoku’” (George Washington’s ‘empire’: A remark on the usage of the word ‘empire’ in the American revolutionary era), Nagoya daigaku bungakubu kenkyû ronshû shigaku, 54 (2008), 129–51. In Japanese.

Yuill, Kevin, “Another Take on the Nixon Presidency: The First Therapeutic President?,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 2, 2009), 138–62.

Zink, James R., “The Language of Liberty and Law: James Wilson on America’s Written Constitution,” American Political Science Review, 103 (Aug. 2009), 442–55.

 

Babic, Annessa Ann, “Undoing Glory: Constructions of Gender and Patriotism in Post War U.S. Society, 1918–1972” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338197.

Byock, Ashley M., “Embalming in Memory: Mourning, Narrativity, and Historiography in the Nineteenth-Century United States” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336546.

Cahill, Charlotte, “Fighting the Vietnam Syndrome: The Construction of a Conservative Veterans Politics, 1966–1984” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336524.

Chase, Philip M., “William Gibbs McAdoo: The Last Progressive (1863–1941)” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341909.

Duffy, Shannon E., “An Enlightened American: The Political Ideology of Thomas Hutchinson on the Eve of the Revolutionary Crisis” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3341492.

Dunlavy, Jean, “A Band of Sisters: Vietnam Women Veterans’ Organization for Rights and Recognition, 1965–1995” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3345723.

Essary, Elizabeth Helen, “Latent Destinies: Separatism and the State in Hawai’I, Alaska, and Puerto Rico” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3340970.

Faber, Michael J., “Founding Expectations: American Politics and the Debate over the Constitution” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3337245.

Freda, Isabelle, “Screening Biopolitics: The Presidential Campaign Film and Cold War Aesthetics” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3342416.

Gentry, Philip Max, “The Age of Anxiety: Music, Politics, and McCarthyism, 1948–1954” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335971.

Holt, Kerin E., “Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Repubilc, 1776–1865” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335662.

Humphres, Sara Megan, “The Expendable Citizen: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Sentiment in American Culture” (University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR43281.

Kempker, Erin M., “Women at the Crossroads: Feminists, Conservatives, and Gender Politics in Indiana, 1950–1980” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3344018.

Kenney Walsh, Kaitlyn, “Deadlock: A Political Economy Perspective on the Massachussetts Health Policy Reform Experience” (Northeastern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336495.

Kutz-Flamenbaum, Rachel, “Cycles of Protest: Impact of the Contemporary Anti-war Movement on the U.S. Women’s Movement” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338222.

Mann, Randolph Terrance, “Redaction Criticism of the Synoptic Gospels: Its Role in the Interrancy Debate within North American Evangelicalism” (University of South Africa, 2007).

McNiece, Matthew A., “‘Un-Americans’ and ‘Anti-Communists’: The Rhetorical Battle to Define Twentieth-Century America” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3331300.

Nishikawa, Hidekazu, “Reisen retorikku no keiseikatei: Torûman daitôryô no retorikkusenryaku” (A study of Cold War rhetoric in the formative period: The rhetorical strategy of Harry S. Truman as a case in point) (Waseda University, Japan, 2009). In Japanese.

Richardson, Tarron J., “The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Electoral Impact upon the African American Community in Richmond, Virginia” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008). Order No. DA3345115.

Rix, Rebecca Ann, “Gender and Reconstruction: The Individual and Family Basis of Republican Government Contested, 1868–1925” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342733.

Rosenberg, Heidi Matiyow, “Federal Policy toward Delinquent Youth: Legislative and Programmatic Milestones from Kennedy to Ford, 1960–1976” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343198.

Ross, Jason C., “The Declaration of Independence and the Crisis of American Identity: Identity, Authority, and Power in Anglo-American History and Historiography” (Georgetown University, 2008). Order No. DA3341587.

Ruggles, Brock, “Not So Quiet on the Western Front: Punk Politics during the Conservative Ascendancy in the United States, 1980–2000” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3338405.

Schlueter, John Paul, “Writing, Speaking, and the (After)life of American Democracy” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3340167.

Serbulo, Leanne Claire, “‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’: Urban Social Movements and the Transformation of Everyday Life in Pacific Northwest Cities, 1900–1999” (Portland State University, 2008). Order No. DA3343780.

Sieracki, Bernard H., “Order and Opportunity: The Development of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3345493.

Weinberg, Micah, “Choose Your Words Carefully: The Electoral Consequences of the Speeches of American State Governors, 2000–2006” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3330994.

Wharton, Jonathan L., “Politics, Paradigms, and Perceptions: The Racial, Generational, and Urban Development Implications of the 2002 and 2006 Newark Mayoral Elections” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3335323.

 

Acacia, John, Clark Clifford: The Wise Man of Washington. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 440 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2551-0.)

Blair, William A., and Karen Fisher Younger, eds., Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 233 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3316-2.)

Cho, Ji-Hyung, Daetongryungeui Tansaeng (The birth of the president). (Seoul: Sallim, 2008. 96 pp. Won 3,200, isbn 978-89-522-0820-0.) In Korean.

Cotter, Patrick R., and James Glen Stovall, After Wallace: The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Law School, 2009. xviii, 233 pp. $48.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1660-0.)

Dunlap, Annette, Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xii, 195 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2817-8.)

Flammang, Janet A., The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv, 325 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03490-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07673-2.)

Gillon, Steven M., The Kennedy Assassination—24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson’s Pivotal First Day as President. (New York: Basic, 2009. xviii, 294 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-465-01870-3.)

Greenstein, Fred I., Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. x, 165 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-691-13358-4.)

Ishikawa, Takafumi, Amerika renpôseifu no shisôteki kiso (An ideological foundation of the federal government of the United States: The theory of central government of John Adams). (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2009. 276 pp. ¥3,800, isbn 978-4-86327-021-3.) In Japanese.

Kania, Marta, and Anna Kaganiec-Kamiénska, eds., Doswiadczenie demokracji w Ameryce Lacinskiej: Materialy z ogólnopolskiej konferencji zorganizowanej prez Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 19–20 pazdziernika 2007 (The experience of democracy in Latin America: Materials from the national conference organized by the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, 19–20 October 2007). (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2008. 278 pp. isbn 978-83-233-2612-0.) In Polish. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Kim, Hyung-Gon, George Washington. (Seoul: Sallim, 2009. 96 pp. Won 3,300, isbn 978-89-522-1113-2.) In Korean.

King, Desmond, et al., eds., Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historial Analysis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. viii, 337 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9324-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9325-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

McCoy, Alfred W., Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. xviii, 659 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-299-23414-0.)

Merry, Robert W., A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. xiv, 576 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9743-1.)

Myers, John L., Henry Wilson and the Era of Reconstruction. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. xii, 301 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7618-4742-7.)

Nelson, Daniel, A Passion for the Land: John F. Seiberling and the Environmental Movement. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. xiv, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-60635-036-2.)

Nishikawa, Masaru, Nyûdîruki Minshutô no hen’yô (Transformation of the Democratic party during the New Deal). (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2008. 283 pp. ¥5,200, isbn 978-4-7664-1550-6.) In Japanese.

Nishiyama, Takayuki, Amerikagata fukushikokka to toshiseiji (American welfare state and urban politics: Historical transition of urban liberalism in New York City). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2008. 324 pp. ¥6,500, isbn 978-4-13-036231-3.) In Japanese.

Pickens, Donald K., Leon H. Keyserling: A Progressive Economist. (Lanham: Lexington, 2009. x, 245 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4083-3.)

Ratnesar, Romesh, Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 229 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-4165-5690-9.)

Sutô, Isao, Sengo Amerika tsûka kin’yû seisaku no keisei (Shaping of the postwar federal reserve policy: From the New Deal to the Accord). (Nagoya: University of Nagoya Press, 2008. 346 pp. ¥5,700, isbn 978-4-8158-0584-5.) In Japanese.

Unger, Harlow Giles, The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2009. xii, 388 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-306-81808-0.)

Weisberg, Stuart E., Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xiv, 514 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-55849-721-4.)

Wood, B. Dan, The Myth of Presidential Representation. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 226 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-11658-9. Paper, $25.99, isbn 978-0-521-13342-5.)

Wood, W. Kirk, Nullification, a Constitutional History, 1776–1833, vol. 2: James Madison and the Constitutionality of Nullification, 1787–1828. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. lxviii, 307 pp. Paper, $48.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4568-3.)

 

Haynie, Aeron, ed., A Memoir of the New Left: The Political Autobiography of Charles A. Haynie. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xxvi, 154 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57233-672-8.)

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