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Books reviewed: Melvyn Stokes (ed), The State of U.S. History Cornelius A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton (eds), Nation on the Move. Mobility in U.S. History Paul S. Boyer (ed), The Oxford Companion to United States History Nancy A. Hewitt (ed), A Companion to American Women’s History Geoff Ward, The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present Amanda Porterfield (ed), American Religious History Nancy Cott, Public Vows. A History of Marriage and the Nation Gerald N. Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America Sally Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776 Mechal Sobel, Teach me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era Stephen Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755–1763 Judith L. Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York Leonard L. Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic Anthony F. C. Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans Norman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The Romantics Julie Winch, A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten Martin Crawford, Ashe County’s Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South James Tackach, Lincoln’s Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North Gary W. Gallagher, Lee and his Army in Confederate History James M. McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam Ilana D. Miller, Reports from America: William Howard Russell and the Civil War Sherri Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Clifford Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920 Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction Bruce A. Elleman, Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question Maury Klein, Rainbow’s End. The Crash of 1929 Linda Williams, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson Steven Alan Carr, Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor Gary Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914–1960 Brian Regal, Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man Matthew Pratt Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940 Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State Ula Yvette Taylor, The Veiled Garvey: The Life & Times of Amy Jacques Garvey Michele Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans Tinsley E. Yarbrough, A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena W. J. Rorabaugh, Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties Dean J. Kotlowski, Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy Alan M. Wald, Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-twentieth-Century Literary Left Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che Bill Osgerby, Playboys in Paradise. Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-style in Modern America Howard B. Rock and Deborah Dash Moore, with the assistance of David Lobenstine, Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images Joseph Smith, with Francisco Vinhosa, A History of Brazil, 1500–2000: Politics, Economy, Society, Diplomacy María Elena Díaz, The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre Iván Jaksić, Andrés Bello. Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Jean Franco, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City. Latin America in the Cold War [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950," by Avner Offer.