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Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: Menlo Park: The Early Years, April 1876-December 1877 by Thomas A. Edison, edited by Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier and Martha J. King.

Reviews the books `The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 2: From Workshop to Laboratory, June 1873-March 1876,' by Thomas A. Edison, edited by Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier and Melodie Andrews and `Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America,' by Martin V. Melosi.

Reviews the book 'The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House,' by James David Barber.

A review of the book "How Racism Takes Place," by George Lipsitz, is presented.

Schermerhorn's narrative also walks the reader through the development of White antislavery, proslavery, and abolitionist "narratives." Here Schermerhorn quotes Sven Beckert's "war capitalism" term frequently. Schermerhorn's story is familiar from recent books: after national independence, slavery expanded as the United States expanded. [Extracted from the article]

Books reviewed in this article: Kohut, Andrew, Green, John C., Keeter, Scott, and Toth, Robert C., The Diminishing Divide . Boston, Robert, Close Encounters with the Religious Right . Apostolidis, Paul, Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on the book "Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory," by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie. Between 1997 and 2000, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie interviewed Chinese, Korean, and Mexican immigrant women who are active in five community workers' centers in New York, California, and Texas. In this volume, she analyzes the colonial and global economic conditions in their home countries that led these women to emigrate and that prepared them for work in U.S. sweatshops. She describes how restaurant, garment, and manufacturing workers challenge sexual harassment, violations of wage and hour laws, and mass layoffs, most successfully in campaigns against Levi Strauss, Donna Karan, and Los Angeles's Koreatown restaurants.

A review of the book "Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum," by Bridget R. Cooks, is presented.

A review of the book "In 'Brown's' Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark," by Martha Minow, is presented.

A review of the book "Dawn of Desegregation: J. A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott," by Ophelia De Laine Gona, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California," by Donna Jean Murch.

A review of the book "Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II," by Jordynn Jack is presented.

The article reviews the book "Income Volatility and Food Assistance in the United States," edited by Dean Jolliffe and James P. Ziliak.

The article reviews the book "Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920," by Maureen Fitzgerald.

Reviews two books about the United States presidency. `Presidential Pesonality and Performance,' by Alexander L. George and Juliette L. George; `The Paradoxes of the American Presidency,' by Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese.

This article presents information on the book "Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America," by Bob Blauner. This collection contains several of Blauner's most famous essays about the racial climate of the United States in the 1960's and 1970's as well as more recent essays that rethink his earlier positions. Part I includes essays describing his theory of internal colonization, white privilege, and African-American culture. Part 2 examines public events, such as the 1965 Watts riots and the 1968 Huey Newton murder trial, in order to expose racist frameworks in American institutions and academic practices. The essays in part 3 revisit critical race theory and internal colonization.

This article presents information on the book "Age Through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society," edited by Laura Katz Olson. The 21 chapters in this volume address issues of aging and social service delivery among different ethnic, socioreligious, and gender groups in the United States. Although many groups have strong traditions of elder care by kin, traditions change on contact with the larger American culture. For example, many women work outside the home and cannot provide traditional care, and many elderly people are reluctant to leave their ethnic neighborhoods for the suburban homes of their children.

This article presents information on the book "Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation," by Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut. One-fifth of all U.S. residents are first- or second-generation immigrants. Portes and Rumbaut ask what makes the children of immigrants successful Americans. They base their answers on 1990 and 2000 census results and on a San Diego and southern Florida longitudinal study of high-school-age children and some of their parents from 77 countries. Portes and Rumbaut find that most members of the second generation speak English better than the first generation, most expect to go to college, two-thirds live in intact families, and a majority feel discriminated against by their native white peers, teachers, and neighbors. Despite these similarities, immigrants from different countries face different prospects.

The article reviews the book "Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956," by Wayne A. Wiegand.