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Volume 79 - Winter 2005

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Ponzi: The Man and His Legendary Scheme. ByMitchell Zuckoff. New York: Random House, 2005. xiii + 396 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 1-400-06039-7.

Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890–1919. By Robin F. Bachin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix + 434 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-03393-7.

Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947. By Kathy M. Newman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 237 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-520-22372-1; paper, 0-520-23590-8.

John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. By Richard Parker. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. x + 820 pp. Photographs, index, notes. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-374-28168-8.

Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. By Marina Moskowitz. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 300 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87947-7.

Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. By Meg Jacobs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii + 349 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-08664-8.

The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929. By Elspeth H. Brown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. viii + 334 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88099-8.

Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. By Lisa Jacobson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xiii + 299 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-231-11388-9.

The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion. By George A. Gonzalez. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. viii + 144 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-791-46335-4.

Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business. By Thomas Heinrich and Bob Batchelor. Columbus: University of Ohio Press, 2005. xiv + 263 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $48.95. ISBN: 0-814-20976-9.

Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girl Culture, 1920–1945. ByKelly Schrum. New York: Palgrave, 2004. xii + 209 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-4039-6176-X.

It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography. By Susan Ware. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xii + 304 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-814-79401-7.

Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Keith J. Voltano. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005. xv + 194 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 1-585-44402-2.

The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising. Edited by John McDonough and Karen Egolf. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. Three volumes, xxiii + 1873 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Cloth, $385.00. ISBN: 1-579-58172-2.

Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. ByChristopher Endy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 286 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth: $49.95; paper: $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82871-8; paper 0-807-85548-0.

Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. By Paul Sabin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 307 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-520-24198-3.

For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. By Jennifer Klein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xi + 354 pp. Index, notes, references, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-07056-3.

A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico. By Emilio Kourí. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiii + 389 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-804-73939-0.

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