Book Reviews

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"Conceiving Contempt and Pity: Race and Progressive Era Americans" Gregory Michael Dorr
David W. Southern, The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917
Jonathan Spiro, Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant
"From Producerism to Consumerism" Adam J. Hodges Lawrence M. Lipin, Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30
"North Carolina Populists out of the Shadows" Charles Postel James M. Beebe, Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901
"Officer Elites and Soldier Slaves: Class and Cultural Divisions in the Gilded Age American Army" Tom Philips Kevin Adams, Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890
"Reconstructing the Southern Sporting Field" Andrea Smalley Scott E. Giltner, Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War
A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform Ruth Crocker Laura M. Westhoff
After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley Robert M. Senkewicz David Vaught
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900 Glen Gendzel Jack Beatty
Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910–1914 by Richard Abel; reviewed by Nancy J. Rosenbloom
Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America James H. Adams Barry Werth