Book Reviews

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Michael Bane. White Boy Singin' the Blues: The Black Roots of White Rock. New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Pp. 269. Paper, $5.95. Review by Phillip McGuire of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Alan M. Kraut. The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880- 1921. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1982. Pp. xi, 212. Paper, $7.95. Review by William L. Downard of Saint Joseph's College (Indiana).

Gerald R. Baydo, ed. The Evolution of Mass Culture in America, 1877 to the Present. Arlington Heights,  Illinois: Forum Press, 1982. Pp. 209. Paper, $9.95. Review by Michael L. Berger of St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Michael D. Richards. Europe, 1900-1980: A Brief History. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Forum Press, 1982. Pp. 276. Paper, $11.95. Review by Larry D. Wilcox of the University of Toledo.

Walter Laqueur. The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's "Final Solution." New York: Penguin Books, 1980. Pp. 262. Paper, $5.95. Review by Robert H. Welborn of Clayton Junior College.

Deborah Gorham. The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. 223. Cloth, $20.00. Review by C. Ashley Ellefson of SUNY-Cortland.

Frank F. Mathias. G.I. Jive: An Army Bandsman in World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Pp. xii, 227. Cloth, $17.50. Review by Thomas F. Armstrong of Georgie College.

David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. Nashville: The American Assocation for State and Local History, 1982. Pp. xiii, 300. Cloth, $15.95. Review by William E. Gibbs of New Mexico Military Institute.

Glenn C. Altschuler. Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Social Thought, 1865-1919. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1982. Pp. xv, 141. Paper, $6.95. Review by George D. King of the University of Minnesota.

Archimedes L.A. Patti. Why Vietnam? Prelude to America's Albatross. Berkeley: University of California Press , 1980. Pp. xx, 612. Paper, $10.95; Hugh Higgins. Vietnam. Exeter, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1982. Second edition. Pp. 180. Paper, $7.50. Review by Frank A. Burdick of SUNY-Cortland.

Robert A. Hayes. The Brazilian World. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Forum Press, 1982. Pp. 87. Paper, $5.75; John Francis Bannon. The Colonial World of Latin America. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Forum Press, 1982. Pp. 89. Paper, $5.75. Review by W. James Miller of Louisiana State University-Shreveport.

Robert Brugger, ed. Our Selves/Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 416. Cloth, $26.50; Paper, $8.95. Review by Thomas T. Lewis of Mount Senario College.

Edward Wagenknecht. American Profile, 1900-1909. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. Pp. 376. Cloth, $22.50; Paper, $10.00. Review by Hansel Martin of Justin F. Kimball High School and Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas.