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Essays

  1. Washington Irving’s Problems with History and Romance in Astoria
  2. I.S. MacLaren
  3. pp. 1-13
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  1. “Lords of the Ascendant”: Mercantile Biography and Irving’s Astoria
  2. Alan Leander MacGregor
  3. pp. 15-30
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  1. Henry James and the Haunted House of Fiction: Hawthorne’s Influence in The American
  2. Ed Kleiman
  3. pp. 31-48
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American Studies in Review

  1. “You Have no Ancestry Behind You”: Black History’s Evolution
  2. Daniel C. Littlefield
  3. pp. 49-56
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  1. Relentlessly Writing the Weary Song: Blues Legacies in Literature
  2. Ruth A. Banes
  3. pp. 57-71
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  1. Managing Labor, Finding a Future
  2. John Cumbler
  3. pp. 73-77
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  1. One World or None: Realism and Idealism in Postwar United States Foreign Policy
  2. Stephen Randall
  3. pp. 79-84
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  1. “A Conspiracy Against the Laity”
  2. Curtis Cole
  3. pp. 85-89
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  1. How Presidents Lead
  2. Henry C. Kenski
  3. pp. 91-94
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  1. Flanneriana
  2. Frederick Asals
  3. pp. 95-99
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  1. Breaking Out of the Sf Box: Recent Studies of James Blish and Ursula K. Le Guin
  2. Nicholas Ruddick
  3. pp. 101-106
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Shorter Book Reviews

  1. The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits, ed. by Jack P. Greene (review)
  2. Alan Tully
  3. pp. 107-109
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  1. The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire, 1906–1916 by James Wright (review)
  2. Evan Anders
  3. pp. 109-111
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  1. Placing Parties in American Politics: Organization, Electoral Settings, and Government Activity in the Twentieth Century by David R. Mayhew (review)
  2. Harold M. Waller
  3. pp. 111-112
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  1. The Johnson Years. Volume One: Foreign Policy, the Great Society and the White House, ed. by Robert A. Divine (review)
  2. Thomas N. Guinsburg
  3. pp. 113-115
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  1. Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane by Michael Fried (review)
  2. George Cotkin
  3. pp. 115-117
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  1. Eugene O’Neill, The Unfinished Plays: Notes for The Visit of Malatesta, The Last Conquest, Blind Alley Guy, ed. by Virginia Floyd (review)
  2. Joyce Deveau Kennedy
  3. pp. 117-118
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  1. Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940 by James S. Olson (review)
  2. John Braeman
  3. pp. 118-119
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  1. Arrogant Diplomacy: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia, 1903–1922 by Richard L. Lael (review)
  2. Stephen J. Randall
  3. pp. 120-121
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  1. United States Policy in Latin America: A Quarter Century of Crisis and Challenge, 1961–1986, ed. by John D. Martz (review)
  2. J.C.M. Ogelsby
  3. pp. 121-122
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  1. Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, ed. by Warren F. Kimball (review)
  2. Hector M. Mackenzie
  3. pp. 123-125
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  1. The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922–1940 by David F. Schmitz (review)
  2. Antonio Santosuosso
  3. pp. 126-128
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  1. We Shall Return!: MacArthur’s Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942–1945, ed. by William M. Leary (review)
  2. A.H. Ion
  3. pp. 128-129
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  1. The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace by Strobe Talbott (review)
  2. Jerry Cooper
  3. pp. 130-131
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  1. A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel by Steven Weisenburger (review)
  2. Larry Daw
  3. pp. 131-132
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  1. Public History: An Introduction, eds. by Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (review)
  2. John R. Jameson
  3. pp. 133-134
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  1. Correspondence
  3. p. 135
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  3. p. 136
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  1. Index For Volume 20.1–20.3
  3. pp. 139-144
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