Book Reviews

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Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities. Erika Doss. A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America. Larry D. Eldridge. The White House: The First Two Hundred Years. Edited by Frank Freidel and William Pencak. Dillinger: 7iie Untold Story. G. Russel Girardin with William J. Helrner. Saving ‘Old Glory’: The History of The American Flag Desecration Controversy. Robert Justin Goldstein. Railroad Postcards in The Age of Steam. H. Roger Grant. The Black Press in Mississippi 1865‐1985. Julius E. Thompson. Living Witchcraf: A Contemporary American Coven. Allen Scarboro, Nancy Campbell, and Shirley Stave. April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War. William A. Tidwell. Kent Billy The Kid: His Life and Legend. John Tuska. Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes From Original Sources By and About Abraham Lincoln. Edited by P.M. Zall. Knoxville American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869‐1914. Gerald Bordman. Sport on Film and video: The North American Society for Sport History Guide. Eds. Judith A. Davidson and Daryl Adler. Mothers and Work in Popular American Magazines. Kathryn Keller. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. William Leach. Maid in the U.S.A. Mary Romero. Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics. Stephen Vaughn. Covering the Body, The Kennedy Assassination, the Media and the Shaping of Collective Memory. Barbie Zelizer. The Texas Folklore Society 1943‐1971 Volume 11. Francis Edward Abernethy. Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books 1621‐1922. Gillian Avery. Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas. Joe Carr and Alan Munde. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: 75 Years of an American Legend. Brian Walker. They Still Call Me Junior: Autobiography of a Child Star; with a Filmography. Frank ‘Junior’ Coghlan. In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. David W. Conroy. Gender, Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, V, Eds. Elizabeth C. Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins. Cowboys and the Wild West: An A‐Z Guide from the Chisholm Trail to the Silver Screen. Don Cusic. Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 2880‐1910. Helen Damon‐Moore. Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearance. Barbara Kruger. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Ed. John R. Gillis. Buckeye Legends: Folktales and Lore from Ohio. Michael Jay Katz. South Florida Folklife. Tina Bucuvalas, Peggy A. Bulger and Stetson Kennedy. Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. Eds. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Virginia G. McDavid, Theodore K. Lerus and Ellen Johnson. Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D. C. after the Civil War. Kathryn Allamong Jacob. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D. C., 1910‐1940. Elizabeth Clark‐Lewis. American Folklore and the Mass Media. Linda Degh. To See a Promised Land: Americans and the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century. Lester I. Vogel. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Jonathan Shay. One United People: The ‘Federalist Papers’ and the National Idea. Edward Millican. The Lawn. A History of an American Obsession. Virginia Scott Jenkins. While the Women Only Wept: Lqalist Refigee Women in Eastern Ontario. Janice Potter‐MacKinnon. A Surgeon's Civil War: The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D, Ed. James M. Greiner, Janet L. Coryell and James R. Smither. The 60s: Spiritual Awakening. Robert S. Ellwood. Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of ‘Youth in Crisis.’ Charles R. Acland.