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Volume 44 - February 2010

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Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio (eds.), Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2010, $56.00). Pp. 276. isbn978 0 87413 094 2.

Marc Gallicchio, The Scramble for Asia: U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, £19.90). Pp. xiv+209. isbn978 0 7425 4437 6.

David Paul Haney, The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008, £27.99). Pp. 296. isbn978 1 5921 3713 8.

Claire Greslé-Favier, “Raising Sexually Pure Kids”: Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi Press, 2009, $93.00). Pp. vii+276. isbn978 90 420 2678 0.

David Lipsky, Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace (New York: Broadway Books, 2010, $16.99). Pp. xxxii+320. isbn978 0 307 59243 9.

Susan Sontag, Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947–1964, ed. by David Rieff (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2008, £19.99). Pp. xiv+318. isbn978 0 241 14431 2. - Phillip Lopate, Notes on Sontag (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, $19.95). Pp. 247. isbn978 0 691 13570 0.

Mark Wahlgren Summers, A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009, $39.95). Pp. 344. isbn978 0 8078 3304 9.

Zachery R. Williams, In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926–1970 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009, $39.95). Pp. xi+250. isbn978 0 8262 1862 9.

Juan J. Alonso, Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes: The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009, $49.95). Pp. 208. isbn978 0 8165 2868 4.

Blair L. M. Kelley, Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010, $21.95). Pp. xii+256. isbn978 0 8078 7101 0.

Brian Neve, Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2009, $42.00). Pp. xi+252. isbn978 84511 560 9.

Blake Gumprecht, The American College Town (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, $34.95). Pp. 448. isbn978 55849 671 2.

Mick Gidley (ed.), Writing with Light: Words and Photographs in American Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010, £37.00). Pp. xii+287. isbn978 3 03911 572 3.

Ellen McWilliams, Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, £45.00). Pp. xii+170. isbn978 0 7546 6027 9.

Marc J. Selverstone, Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009, £36.95/$49.95). Pp. 318. isbn978 0 674 03179 1.

Sean McCann, A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, £19.95). Pp. xiv+248. isbn978 0 691 13695 0.

Cornelis A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Milton (eds.), Political Repression in U.S. History (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2009, $34.95). Pp. 242. isbn978 89 0865 9319 4.

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