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By interlacing the public figures of Valentino and Mussolini, I The Divo and the Duce i unveils the interdependence of romantic and political leadership during the 1920s. Ever since his meteoric rise to fame and early death in 1926, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino has been the subject of huge media coverage and numerous biographies, both in the United States and abroad. [Extracted from the article]

In the final chapter, Horowitz looks back at Jackson's life, her relationship with him (including mention of the papers she saved from Jackson's impromptu bonfire), and his lasting image. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, who would become Jackson's literary executor, found Jackson, in 1994, burning papers at his home in La Cienega. Those already familiar with Jackson's work will find gratification from Horowitz's attempt to trace Jackson's presence through this world. [Extracted from the article]

If Chayes had taken history (and economics) seriously, she might have written a thoughtful and persuasive analysis that could have bolstered her thesis that America has entered a new Gilded Age. $28.95 cloth $16.00 paper The era between the New Deal and the Reagan Revolution was, according to Chayes, a period of enlightened democracy and restrained capitalism: The franchise was extended to previously excluded groups. [Extracted from the article]

By bringing these histories together, I Biotic Borders i is an important intervention into ideas about immigration and the function of race and species in nation-building. $95.00 cloth $30.00 paper In I Biotic Borders i , Shinozuka investigates how immigration exclusion affected both race and species during the rise of the U.S. nation-state. Thus, the management of species at the U.S. border, as Shinozuka demonstrates, was predicated on the racial logics of exclusion that governed immigration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [Extracted from the article]

Hence, Crop Reporters, who in many cases were the farmers who had volunteered to enter the quota agreement, began to provide unreliable or no information to the Statisticians. State Statisticians linked the information on the quotas established by the federal government per crop at a state level with the farmers in each county. Following the ideas of Arthur Bowley, state Statistician Charles S. Sarle tested the five assumptions underlying the concept of probable error to see if they were verified by the division's data. [Extracted from the article]

The article critiques several poems from "World As Sacred Burning Heart," a collection of poems on the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The poems include "The Captain Considers His Known Losses," "The Captain Reads the Requerimiento," "The Captain Writes a carta de relación" and "The Captain Sits to Write a Palinode." The literary influences of the poems are examined.

A review of the book "Reflections on America. Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno" by Claus Offe is presented.

Sullivan became known for his pioneering work on an all-male psychiatric unit, where he took some of the ideas contained in Freudian psychoanalysis and modified them for therapy with schizophrenic patients. All the authors in their own ways struggle with what psychoanalysis has to offer, what is useful to patients, and with pursuing authenticity rather than adherence to a theoretical idea or analytic school. The history of psychoanalysis does not unfold in an orderly fashion and is subject, like all history, to the perspective and biases of the historian. [Extracted from the article]

But Jefferson could not easily improve the state militias. Jefferson established West Point in 1802, a Federalist idea, as a Republican tool to transform the army. When crafting a proposed Virginia state constitution in 1776, an idealistic Jefferson had boldly declared, "There shall be no standing army but in time of war" (46). [Extracted from the article]

Overall, Chase's I We Are Not Slaves i provides a deep historical accounting of the racial and sexual violence of Texas's carceral regime and the building of a prisoner rights movement. The second part, "Resistance", traces the Texas prisoner rights movement, which "developed a two-pronged strategy that used mass protest labor tactics and Black and brown power critiques alongside civil rights cases and class action lawsuits" (275). [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy 1660-1700," by Nuala Zahedieh is presented.

A review of the book "Edge of Crisis: War & Trade in the Spanish Atlantic 1789-1808," by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein is presented.

The article reviews the book "Native Hubs: Culture, Community and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond," by Renya K. Ramirez.

The article reviews the book "Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival," by Patricia Barker Lerch.

A historian of nineteenth-century American capitalism, Brian P. Luskey shines a light on what "free labor" meant in practical terms for people coming out of slavery. [Extracted from the article]

The following chapter examines Breckinridge and Jane Addams's work as peace activists before and after World War I. What will be new to many scholars is that Breckinridge was involved in Pan-American feminism in the 1930s. Much of Breckinridge's time was spent building and managing the SSA, and the biography would have done well to further elaborate upon this work and provide the reader with a more intimate and detailed sense of Breckinridge's daily life. Bookending this substantive material are a number of chapters devoted to Breckinridge's family life and a final chapter on the relationship between Breckinridge and Abbott. [Extracted from the article]

Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump, Allison Stanger New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2019, 27.50 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780300186888 Allison Stanger's [[1]], book I Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump i not only provides a thorough history of whistleblowing in the United States, but also delves into the philosophical questions that underlie the act of whistleblowing. Reference 1 Stanger, A., Whistleblowers: honesty in America from Washington to Trump (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019). [Extracted from the article]

While he briefly mentions Johannesburg, South Africa (and Birmingham, England), the book is not a comparative study, although Wilson points out the false equivalence of comparing Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some readers could use a primer on Marxism before reading this book, although Wilson strives to make his theoretical arguments somewhat lucid to diverse audiences. Wilson positions Birmingham - not New York, Chicago, Detroit, or even Atlanta - as its focal point, exploring the connection between Alabama's slaveholding past and this modern-day city's industrialization. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Techumseh" by Gordon M. Sayre.