Our Current issue: Issue #23 Fall 1999

Table of Contents

About the Contributors iii
Special Feature The New Deal Revisited 1
  John Braeman  


Essays

 
Charles Finney: Should Christianity Mix with Poltics? 65
  K. Alan Snyder  
Political Equilibrium and the Daley Eras in Chicago 83
  Melvin G. Holli  
John Galster: A Danish Historian and April 9, 1940 97
  Dean W. Monahan  

Book Reviews
 
A History of the American People, by Paul Johnson 105
  John M. Pafford  
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel 108
  Larry Schweikart  
TR: The Last Romantic, by H.W. Brands 111
  John C. Chalberg  
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt, by George Grant 116
  John M. Pafford  
The Papers of Robert A. Taft: Volume I, 1889-1938, edited by Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr. 120
  Justus D. Doenecke  
The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press Versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938, by Gary Dean Best 123
  Burton W. Folsom, Jr.  
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, by Richard Norton Smith 126
  Justus D. Doenecke  
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, by Doris Kearns Goodwin 129
  John C. Chalberg  
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, by John Lewis Gaddis 131
  Hugh Ragsdale  
Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History, edited by Henry Hardy 134
  Max J. Okenfuss  
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age, by John Gray 135
  Paul Gottfried  
Democracy: A Short Analytical History, by Roland N. Stromberg 137
  Hugh Ragsdale  
The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society, by E. J. Hundert 138
  Michael Mendle  
ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age, by Andre Gunder Frank 140
  Clifford M. Foust  
The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937, by Brian G. Martin 143
  Mary Backus Rankin  
Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edward Benes in the 1930s, by Igor Lukes 145
  Hugh Ragsdale  
The Hitler of History, by John Lukacs 147
  Hans Schmitt  
The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp, by Wolfgang Sofsky 149
  Robert Koehl  
Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China, by Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr. 151
  Marcia R. Ristano  
Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzham and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland, An Illustrated History, 1928-1996, by Robert Weinberg 153
  Peter Kenez  
Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval, by Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott 154
  Hugh Ragsdale  
Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika, by Thomas C. Owen 156
  Heather Hogan  
Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, by Michael Dobbs 158
  Hugh Ragsdale