| The Gospel of Freedom and Power: Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II. By Sarah E. Ruble. Reviewed by Mark Hulsether. | 131 |
| Yearnings for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality. By Diane Sasson. Reviewed by Claudie Massicotte. | 133 |
| Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters. Edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano. Reviewed by William J. Harris. | 134 |
| Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream. By Christina M. Greer. Reviewed by Ray Black. | 135 |
| Detroit Country Music: Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies. By Craig Maki and Keith Cady. Reviewed by Richard D. Driver. | 137 |
| Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison. By Joshua Dubler. Reviewed by Lee Bernstein. | 138 |
| The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. By Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost. Reviewed by Lee Bernstein. | 138 |
| Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. By Craig Steven Wilder. Reviewed by Sharon R. Vriend-Robinette. | 141 |
| Fifties Ethnicities: The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury. By Tracy Floreani. Reviewed by Aristi Trendel. | 142 |
| How to Watch Television. Edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell. Reviewed by Kevin J. Porter. | 143 |
| Looking for LeRoy: Illegible Black Masculinity. By Mark Anthony Neil. Reviewed by Thabiti Lewis. | 145 |
| Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System. By Katrina Hazzard-Donald. Reviewed by John P. McCarthy. | 147 |
| Philip Roth—The Continuing Presence: New Essays on Psychological Themes. Edited by Jane Statlander-Slote. Reviewed by Nanette Norris | 148 |
| The Principal’s Office: A Social History of the American School Principal. By Kate Rousmaniere. Reviewed by Annette L. Varcoe. | 149 |
| A Colony Sprung from Hell: Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1774–1794. By Daniel P. Barr. Reviewed by J. Edward Townes. | 150 |
| A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World. By Margaret D. Jacobs. Reviewed by Melissa Otis. | 151 |
| America’s Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture. Edited by Tina Gianquitto and Lydia Fisher. Reviewed by Mary E. Kohler. | 153 |
| Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America. By Margaret Sumner. Reviewed by Mark Oramaner. | 154 |
| Film Criticism, The Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds. By Jeff Smith. Reviewed by Bernard F. Dick. | 155 |
| Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Culture. By Rebecca Prime. Reviewed by Bernard F. Dick. | 155 |
| From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America. By Kimberly A. Hamlin. Reviewed by Guy Lancaster. | 157 |
| H.L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition. Edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. Reviewed by Alexandre Fachard. | 159 |
| In Time We Shall Know Ourselves. Photographs by Raymond Smith. Essays by Richard H. King and Alexander Nemerov. Reviewed by James Emmett Ryan. | 160 |
| Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority. By Zareena Grewal. Reviewed by Ben Railton. | 161 |
| Literary Executions: Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925. By John Cyril Barton. Reviewed by Sara L. Knox. | 162 |
| Mexicans in the Making of America. By Neil Foley. Reviewed by Valerie M. Mendoza | 164 |
| Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia. By James A. Davis. Reviewed by Matthew E. Stanley. | 165 |
| Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence. By Boyd Cothran. Reviewed by Robert E. Walls. | 166 |
| Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn. By Philip Burnham. Reviewed by Debra Buchholtz. | 167 |
| That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South. By Caroline E. Light. Reviewed by Aleisa Fishman. | 169 |
| The Call of Bilal: Islam in the African Diaspora. By Edward E. Curtis IV. Reviewed by Shelby Shapiro. | 170 |
| The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City. By Eric Avila. Reviewed by Mary Rizzo. | 171 |
| The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century. By Catherine R. Squires. Reviewed by Gwyneth Mellinger. | 172 |
| The Printer’s Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family. Edited by Patricia A. Donohoe... |
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