Book Reviews

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Jersey Diners. Peter Genovese. Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines. Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson. Critical Conditions: American Culture at the Crossroads. Eleanor Heartney. RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative. Kris Lackey. Ohio in Historic Postcards: Self‐Portrait of a State. H. Roger Grant. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799‐1883. Gary Laderman. The Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Stephen J. McGovern. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Richard Handler and Eric Gable. The Theming of America: Dreams, Visions, and Commercial Spaces. Mark Gottdiener. Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature. Marilyn C. Wesley. Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, eds. Of the People, By the People, For the People and Other Quotations from Abraham Lincoln. Gabor S. Boritt, ed. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex‐Drugs‐and‐Rock'n 'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Peter Biskind. Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print. Ronald Weber. Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture. Mark Seltzer. Steven Spielberg. Joseph McBride. The Abbott & Costello Story: Sixty Years of “Who's on First?” Stephen Cox and John Lofflin. Un/popular Culture: Lesbian Writing after the Sex Wars. Kathleen Martindale. The Last Avant‐Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. David Lehman. Mexico between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lazaro Cardenas, 1934‐1940. Friedrich E. Schuler. Our Governors' Mansions. Cathy Keating. Home Materials: Ohio's Nineteenth‐Century Regional Women's Fiction. Sandra Parker, ed. Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture. Annette Stott. Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture since World War II. Richard Pells. Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women. Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens, eds. Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Diana Tietjens Meyers, ed. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. Kathy Peiss. Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Ronald C. Tobey. Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality. Neal Gabler. Carl Sagan's Universe. Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson, eds.