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The following are culled from Lynnea Chapman King's Report of books
reviewed in the _Chronicle of Higher Education_. The Chapman King report
is a monthly listing of new books of interest to American Studies, posted
to H_Net Central. The date of each review in the _Chronicle_ is listed
with each entry.
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SLAVERY, CAPITALISM, AND POLITICS IN THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC, VOLUME 1:
COMMERCE AND COMPROMISE, 1820-1850
BY JOHN ASHWORTH
(The first book in a two-volume Marxist analysis of economics and politics
before the Civil War. 532 pages. February 16 Cambridge University Press)
ROOSEVELT'S WARRIOR: HAROLD L. ICKES AND THE NEW DEAL
BY JEANNE NIENABER CLARKE
(A political biography of Ickes, who served as Secretary of the Interior
from 1933 to 1946. 423 pages. February 9 Johns Hopkins University)
DEMOCRACY AND DNA: AMERICAN DREAMS AND MEDICAL PROGRESS
BY GERALD WEISSMANN
(Examines the relationship between ideas of social reform and developments
in American science and medicine. 263 pages. February 16 Hill & Wang)
THE MEDIA AND MODERNITY: A SOCIAL THEORY OF THE MEDIA
BY JOHN B. THOMPSON
(Explores the role of the mass media in the rise of modern societies;
considers, for example, how communications networks interact with economic,
military, and political forms of power. 336 pages. February 16
Stanford University Press)
POVERTY AND POWER: THE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION OF POOR AMERICANS
BY DOUGLAS R. IMIG
(Focuses on the 1980s in a study of the political activities of such
anti-poverty groups as Bread for the World and the Center on Social Welfare
Policy and Law. 177 pages. February 16 University of Nebraska Press)
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