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Red Apple
Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York PHILLIP DEERY [Deery]. . . focuses on six individuals, including Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum, who taught at New York University; the writer Howard Fast; and O. John Rogge, who would become the lawyer for David Greenglass, whose testimony sent his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair in the Rosenberg spy case.Sam Roberts, The New York Times
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The Routes Not Taken

A Trip Through New York Citys Unbuilt Subway System JOSEPH B. RASKIN . . .Mr. Raskin, the assistant director of government and community relations for New York City Transit, dusts off old blueprints of lines that were never built or never completed, explaining how the system shaped urban development and how political and economic forces conspired to create todays subways. If only the Transit Construction Commissions 1920 plan had been adopted: a $350 million, 20-year blueprint that would have provided a grid of subway lines covering all five boroughs and provided for a city with a population even bigger than todays.Sam Roberts, The New York Times
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A Dancer in the Revolution

Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club HOWARD EUGENE JOHNSON WITH WENDY JOHNSON Foreword by Mark D. Naison Stretch Johnsons nickname honored his exceptional height and flexibility as a professional dancer, but also captured his rarer talent for reaching across cultural and political gaps. His effortlessly lively and rigorously honest memoir illuminates forgotten links between the Cotton Club and the Communist Party, the Harlem Renaissance and the early Black Studies scholarship that canonized it. A Dancer in the Revolution is radical life-writing that magnetically rejoins divided histories.William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis, author of FB Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoovers Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature and New Negro, Old Left: African American Writing and Communism between the Wars
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North Brother Island

The Last Unknown Place in New York City Photographs by Christopher Payne A History by Randall Mason Essay by Robert Sullivan A gorgeous book: The uncannily moving photographs by Christopher Payne do full justice to North Brother Islands haunting air of mystery, its unique play of presence and absence. The supporting texts helpfully elucidate the enigma of such wildness, abandonment, vegetative luxuriance, and architectural ruin existing in the midst of New Yorks ultra-urbanist environment.Phillip Lopate, author of Waterfront
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The Accidental Playground

Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned DANIEL CAMPO Daniel Campo. a former New York City planner, considers the serendipitous development of Williamsburg . . .Sam Roberts, The New York Times
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Civil Rights in New York City

From World War II to the Giuliani Era Edited by Clarence Taylor Attempts to provide some balance through 10 academic essays that cast light on struggles between blacks and organized labor, civil rights and the cold war, discrimination that extended even to garbage collection, and the competing visions of Mayors David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani.The New York Times
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Angels of Mercy

White Women and the History of New Yorks Colored Orphan Asylum WILLIAM SERAILE The book uncovers the history of the Colored Orphan Asylum and the remarkable Quaker women who founded it.New York Amsterdam News
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The Synagogues of New Yorks Lower East Side

A Retrospective and Contemporary View SECOND EDITION GERARD R. WOLFE Photographs by Jo Renee Fine and Norman Borden Foreword by Joseph Berger

Wolfe, an architectural historian, unpeels layers of the past behind the congregations and their building. . .[An] excellent new edition . . . The Jewish Week
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T HE NOR T HS CIV IL WA R

THE NORTHS CIVIL WAR

EDITED BY ANDREW L. SLAP EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
The Norths Civil War series explores Northern society and its role in a broadly dened Civil War era, stretching from the antebellum development of the North to the aftereffects of the conict in the postbellum period. With regard to the Civil War itself, the series focuses on both the Northern homefront and the Union military, following Northern soldiers and sailors to battleelds and occupation duty throughout the South. The series encompasses innovative scholarship in a variety of elds, including military, biographical, social, political, intellectual, environmental, diplomatic, religious, and cultural history. Focusing on the North and its people during the Civil War era adds a vital perspective to understanding one of the most important eras in American history.

This Distracted and Anarchical People

New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil WarEra North Edited by Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith For many years Mark Neely has been one of the most productive and innovative scholars of the Civil War Era. As a mentor, he has passed on his wonderful eye for the unmined source, the intriguing detail, and the unanticipated argument. This wonderful collection of essays is thick with such gems. The reader of this superb volume will find familiar ideas challenged, new perspectives on old questions, and essays that point to exciting new directions for Civil War scholarship. Taken as a group, the volumes authors represent the cutting edge of work on the northern home front.J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida
296 PAGES 978-0-8232-4569-7, PAPER, $30.00, 19.99 THE NO RTHS CI VI L WAR

Gettysburg Religion

Renement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North STEVE LONGENECKER This elegant and graceful study illuminates our understanding of America at the time of the Civil War in a remarkable way. It shines a subtle light into religion, private life, and public struggles, revealing living people among familiar shadows of the past. There is no other book like it.Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America
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Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War

Edited by Paul D. Moreno and Johnathan ONeill The Civil War has not usually been studied as a constitutional conflict. Yet it was a constitutional struggle, fully as much as a military one, from the first clangor of secession to the postwar controversies over confiscation, treason, and military tribunals. And on any of those points, it was a war which could be lost as easily by the change of one vote on the Supreme Court as it could by one change of outcome in a battle.These issues have been given a new life by the way they have resurfaced in the War on Terror, and this masterful collection of essays not onloy illuminates them with never-before-seen historical research, but skilfully links the constitutionalism of the Civil War era with modern debates and concepts of the Constitution.Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era, Gettysburg College
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Lincoln and Leadership

Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making Edited by Randall M. Miller Afterword by Allen C. Guelzo Overall, this volume will appeal to scholars, Lincoln enthusiasts, and students. It offers readers a real bargain in a brief volume- perhaps the best bang for the buck of any Lincoln book on the market. The editor, contributors, and publisher deserve major credit for producing this thoughtful, readable, and enjoyable book.The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
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On the Edge of Freedom

The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870 DAVID G. SMITH ...On The Edge of Freedom is a thoroughly researched, informative, and engaging piece of scholarship.The Civil War Book Review
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The Lincoln Assassination

Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory A LINCOLN FORUM BOOK Edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams These essays offer concise versions of the latest and best scholarship on Lincoln assassination and the trials of the conspirators, written by the foremost historians of these events. Of special interest are the varying perspectives on the legitimacy of the trial by a military court, which are relevant to the current debate over trial of accused terrorists by military courts.James M. McPherson
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Union Combined Operations in the Civil War

Edited by Craig L. Symonds The articles in this volume are consistently thoughtful, thought provoking, well written, and thoroughly researched.The Journal of Southern History
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A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS Introduction by John David Smith . . . this book is an important work in showing how the record of the contributions of the Norths African American soldiers evolved over the past 150 years.Army History
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Deserter Country

Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians ROBERT M. SANDOW . . . Offers a valuable corrective to previous portraits of wartime dissent and proves once again that community studies, far from being myopic and tangential, can offer substantive interpretations with broad implications.American Historical Review
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New Bedfords Civil War

EARL F. MULDERINK, III . . . A sweeping review of a changing community and how it responded to and, over the years, remembered and memorialized the Civil War.Choice
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Chancellorsville and the Germans

Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory CHRISTIAN B. KELLER Keller has added a highly valuable and much-needed revisionist work to Civil War historiography and to the study of ethnicity in nineteenth-century America.The Journal of Southern History
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The Doom of Reconstruction

The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era ANDREW L. SLAP Andrew Slap has performed a valuable service in rescuing the Liberal Republicans from more than a generation of scholarly caricature. Clearly identifying the key members of the movement, he deftly places them within a context of waning republicanism and Reconstruction politics. Students of mid-19th-century American politics will find much to enjoy and learn in this book.Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia
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Teach Me to Be Generous
The First Century of Regis High School in New York City ANTHONY D. ANDREASSI, C.O. Foreword by Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York . . . A thorough and engaging history of one of Americas most fascinating Catholic secondary schools. . . Andreassis tale is one of religion, philanthropy, education, and urban history, and the complicated interactions therein. In an age when too many Catholic schools struggle to finance themselves, this book provides hope.Thomas A. McCabe, author of Miracle on High Street
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Islam and the Challenge of Civilization

ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB Translated by Jane Kuntz . . . an important contribution to knowledge because it gives eloquent voice to a modern Muslim thinker who rejects the narrow legalism of the Wahhabi tradition of Saudi Arabia or the Puritanism of the Egyptian Muslim Brethren.Patrick J. Ryan S.J., Fordham University
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Orthodox Constructions of the West

Edited by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou This book represents a significant step in the direction of self-reflection and selfcriticism that has almost completely eluded Orthodox identity narratives colored by centuries of political oppression and demographic challenges. After too long a wait, such an initiative is all the more remarkable: it approaches the prophetic. Demacopoulos and Papanikolaou are to be recognized for having assembled a world-class array of scholars in diverse fields to produce a compilation that is fascinating, accessible, and at points highly challenging. It will inspire heated debate, and will surely become a staging point for future work.Peter C. Bouteneff, St Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary
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Women of Faith

The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community MARY BETH FRASER CONNOLLY Fraser Connollys informative history of the Chicago Sisters of Mercy presents a wealth of new research that not only adds to our understanding of one congregation, but enhances our knowledge of the larger story of women religious in the United States. Margaret M. McGuinness, Neighbors and Missionaries: A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine
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Empowering the People of God

Catholic Action before and after Vatican II Edited by Jeremy Bonner, Christopher D. Denny, and Mary Beth Fraser Connolly . . .A nuanced, complicated, insightful portrait of Catholic Action as a spectrum rather than a monolith. The volume is timely, not just for historians of American Catholicism, but also for those seeing to understand the deeper backstory to the contesting definitions of authority in the Church in the present moment.Amy L. Koehlinger, Oregon State University
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Bob Drinan

The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, S.J. [Schroth] has produced a nuanced, engaging portrait of a man who worked prodigiously at bettering the world but who also had personal and political flaws.America
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CULTURAL STUDIES
Sabato Rodias Towers in Watts
Art, Migrations, Development Edited by Luisa Del Giudice Sabato Rodias Towers in Watts offer a rich array of perspectives on the creative work of the eccentric immigrant laborer who created one of the most mysterious landmarks of Los Angeles. Whether they are interested in untrained artists, folklore, immigration, cultural and class politics, historical preservation, Italian American life, or multi-cultural neighborhoods and their identities, readers will find unique and diverse provocations in this this lovingly and astutely assembled book.Donna Gabaccia, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
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Italoamericana

The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 Edited by Francesco Durante General Editor of the American Edition: Robert Viscusi Translations Editor: Anthony Julian Tamburri Bibliographic Editor: James J. Periconi Italoamericana is a supreme work of scholarshipan archive unto itself in the form of a meticulously researched and scrupulously glossed and documented historical anthology of the literary creation of the Italian migration.Pellegrino DAcierno, Hofstra University
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Making Italian America

Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities Edited by Simone Cinotto This compelling and innovative volume captures the complexities of the pivotal role of consumption in the historical formation of transnational Italian American taste, positing a distinctive diasporic consumer culture that continues its importance today. Richly interdisciplinary, the collection represents an exciting new resource for scholars and students alike.Marilyn Halter, Boston University
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Intimacy and Italian Migration

Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World Edited by Loretta Baldassar and Donna R. Gabaccia An invitation to the interpretive community of scholars of the Italian diaspora to engage, once and for all, in a discussion that is analytical to the core . . . A mosaic of impressive intellectual exercises.Anthony Tamburri, Queens College
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Poets of the Italian Diaspora

A Bilingual Anthology Edited by Luigi Bonaffini and Joseph Perricone Perricone and Bonafini have collected the best Italian migr poets from around the world. Here is a rich sampling of their poetry. Whether you call them immigrants, exiles, refugees or displaced persons, every one speaks from the soul with an Italian accent, expressing sentiments of a global phenomenon through a shared native language. The accompanying translations enable English speakers to connect to their experiences. The result is a collection that enables comparative Italian Diasporan studies on a scale never before attempted.Fred Gardaphe, John D. Calandra Institute
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Italian Folk

Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives Edited by Joseph Sciorra These works of material culture are ultimately significant not only because of their artistic quality, but also because the everday imaginative choices of their individual authors reflect the dynamics of negotiating between their own multiple and hybrid identities as Italian Americans, and of constantly re-defining Italian-American culture.Italian American Review
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Voices of Italian America

A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology MARTINO MARAZZI Foreword by Ann Goldstein Marazzis anthology bristles with serial gangster fiction, breathless flapper romances, and impassioned tales of triumph over poverty, all of which make for a sharp contrast with his erudite elucidation of their historical context. The result is a glimpse of a largely forgotten literary heritage and of the life of what one epigraph calls the Italian immigrant in the land of America who, enduring danger and derision, built a nation that never became a homeland.The New Yorker
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In the Name of Italy

Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court MAURA HAMETZ This book tells a fascinating story, one that needs to be told.Nancy Wingfield, Northern Illinois University
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Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968

WENDY POJMANN The history of two important Italian womens organizations, the Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF), set in the context of the Cold War era, 1945-68, is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of womens organizations and national and international politics. Karen Garner, SUNY Empire State College
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WORLD WAR II: THE GLOBAL, HUMAN, AND ETHICAL DIMENSION

EDITED BY G. KURT PIEHLER, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
This series features new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Second World War. It is equally interested in monographs that explore the political, military, diplomatic, and economic dimensions of this war as well those that examine its social, cultural, intellectual, and gender history. A central focus of this series will to be on monographs analyzing the human dimension of this epic conict. It seeks works that analyze the multitude of experiences faced not only by combatants, but also by civilians who lived in all the nations engaged in this war. A global war, this epic struggle left no society untouched. Thus, the series seeks works that explore the impact of this conict not only on the United States, Europe, and Japan, but also on Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The United States and the Second World War

New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front Edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash . . . A welcome addition to the literature for offering high-level academic essays that display the complexity of just the American portion of the war ... Piehler and Pash are to be commended for putting together a fine collection of essays, useful to both specialists and college courses on World War II.The Journal of Military History
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A Pact with Vichy

Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration EMANUEL ROTA Rotas biography of Angelo Tascaa critically-important figure in 20th-century Italian political historyis clear, balanced,and engaging. Rota traces Tascas tormented trajectory from communism to Vichy with judicious restraint and empathy. An insightful and provocative work of intellectual history.Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University
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The Diary of Prisoner 17326

A Boys Life in a Japanese Labor Camp JOHN K. STUTTERHEIM Foreword by Mark Parillo The brutal, racist Japanese treatment of Dutch civilians in World War II is told here through the eyes of a young boy who somehow survived captivity, but found he couldnt go home again. This should be required reading for anyone who studies the Pacific War.Linda Goetz Holmes, author of 4000 Bowls of Rice and Unjust Enrichment
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Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism
An Archive HALA HALIM This book is firmly in the postcolonial mode, and on a topic that is both ti mely and important. As Egypt and other countries in the Middle East begin a political journey that takes them further and further out of the control of Western political institutions, it is essential to have nuanced studies that allow us to begin to understand how we (as Western writers and thinkers) have created comfortable spaces for certain non-western elites while excluding others.Susan Stephens, Stanford University
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Hating Empire Properly

The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism SUNIL M. AGNANI Agnani offers wonderfully nuanced readings of two profound and vexing 18th-century thinkersDiderot and Burke. Agnani refuses, just as Diderot and Burke did, to be defined and constrained by shallow distinctions that have so often marked our view of the Enlightenment, its critics and their relationship to European imperialism. This is a work of sustained subtlety and intelligence.Uday S. Mehta, City University of New York
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The Queer Turn in Feminism

Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender ANNE EMMANUELLE BERGER Translated by Catherine Porter Brilliantly exploring the paradoxes of an American feminism inspired and invigorated by French theory and a French tudes du genre stimulated by American queer theory, Anne Berger offers a fascinating romp through the vicissitudes of feminist and postfeminist ideas, performance studies, and identity politics on both sides of the Atlantic, shrewdly articulating the differences as she explores the translatability of progressive ideas.Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
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Realizing Capital

Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form ANNA KORNBLUH By tracing the cultural circulation of two specific tropes fictitious capital and psychic economy Kornbluh makes a compelling argument about the complex figurative ties that bind the realist novel to our understanding of both capitalism and the psyche. This exciting and original book will make us reconsider the novels cultural work as well as that of its criticism.Mario Ortiz-Robles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Its Complete History and Applications, Third Edition JOHN D. FEERICK The Twenty-Fifth Amendment was an instant classic when it appeared in 1976; this a revised and expanded third edition will prove equally indispensable. It is a learned and accessible examination of vital issues afflicting the presidency; a model history of how we amend the Constitution to respond to those issues; and a spur for reflection on the perennial challenges of constitutional government. The capstone to John Feericks labors as a constitutional scholar, historian, and public-spirited citizen, this book deserves the widest possible audience.R. B. Bernstein, New York Law School and City College of New York, and author of Amending America and The Founding Fathers Reconsidered
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ALSO OF INTEREST.
Committing the Future to Memory
History, Experience, Trauma SARAH CLIFT This is a thoughtful and absorbing reflection on the subtle modalities of memory cultural, psychological, politicalin the modern period. At a time when we are all experiencing a surfeit of memory, Sarah Clift injects a new rigor and lucidity into the discussion.Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto
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The Architecture of Concepts

The Historical Formation of Human Rights PETER DE BOLLA De Bolla has produced that rare thingan academic book that does something new. Beginning with a splendid but challenging theoretical distinction between rights conceived as the specifiable properties of people called persons, and right conceived as a universal and axiomatic value of human life, but one that is nowhere available for empirical inspection, de Bolla proceeds to examine two momentous contributions to political historyThe Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paines Rights of Man.Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University
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From Slave Ship to Harvard

Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family JAMES H. JOHNSTON Part historical narrative, part genealogical detective work, this book will appeal to a range of academic and general readers, especially those interested in race relations in early America.Library Journal
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Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
JAMES AGEE Preface by Jonathan Lethem Agees prose poem captures the textural variety of Brooklyn in language that bears reading aloud for its lilt, melody, and pleasingly pungent vocabulary. . .Booklist
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Latvia in World War II

VALDIS O. LUMANS Marked by thoughtful and fair balance on such subjects as collaboration, resistance, and the Holocaust, Latvia in World War II will long stand as a comprehensive survey of events in a In clear and eloquent prose, Lumans deals sympathetically but firmly with the mixed interpretations of these horrible events; writes a chilling chapter on the Holocaust in Latvia; and describes many of the human tragedies that underlay the statistics. Amply documented. Highly recommended.Choice
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Hungary in World War II

Caught in the Cauldron DEBORAH S. CORNELIUS A major scholarly accomplishment that will long remain the definitive historical synthesis of Hungary in World War II.Hungarian Studies Review
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Box Boats

How Container Ships Changed the World BRIAN J. CUDAHY A book for ship spotters.New York Review of Books
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The Rat That Got Away

A Bronx Memoir ALLEN JONES WITH MARK NAISON The memoir paints an earthy picture of the neighborhood in the 1950s, when the projects were home to working-class black and Latino families who pushed their children to excel, through the 1970s.The New York Times
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As Bad as They Say?

Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx JANET GROSSBACH MAYER . . . draws on the deep experience of a compassionate teacher who finds fault not with teachers, unions, or students, but with a society that refuses to take responsibility for the conditions in which its children live and learnand who has demonstrated through her own efforts how one dedicated teacher has improved the education of poor young people.The New York Review of Books
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