Abrams May (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition softcover academic journal. Spotless inside and out. Spine is not creased. A little wear to the back cover including one light crease, one bent corner tip (also affecting the last 20 or so pages), slight roughness to edges and a tiny chip out of the lower right corner. The rest of the volume is just about like new. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe delivery. This issue includes: "President Kennedy's National Security Policy: A Reconsideration" by Anna Kasten Nelson; "Laboring in Colonial America" by Farley Grubb, a review of Work and Labor in Early America by Stephen Innes, ed."; "Scottish Communions, American Revivals" by Susan Curtis, a review of Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period by Leigh Eric Schmidt; "A Desperate Attempt to Fabricate Order" by Robert M. Calhoon, a review of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by Jon Butler; "Talking and Reading in Early America" by John L. Brooke, a review of Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 by Richard D. Brown; "The World the Slave Traders Made: Is There a Postrevisionism in Slavery Historiography?" by David W. Blight, a review of Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South by Michael Tadman; "Everything for Your Urban 'Imaging Needs'" by Patricia Nelson Limerick, a review of New Towns in the New World: Images and Perceptions of the Nineteenth-Century Urban Frontier by David Hamer; "Containing the Gilded Age Mob" by Gregory Bush, a review of America's Armories: Architecture, Society, and Public Order by Robert Fogelson; "Old Wine in New Bottles: Photography and the American Myth" by Lary May, a review of Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Alan Trachtenberg; "As Pennsylvania Goes, So Goes the American Working Class?" by David A. Zonderman, a review of Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915 by Ken Fones-Wolf, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 by Grace Palladino and 'The Lower Sort': Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 by Billy G. Smith; "Professional Progressives" by Lois Scharf, a review of Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform by Ellen Fitzpatrick; "Knowledge for What? The Place of Private Philanthropy in American History" by Donald T. Critchlow, a review of The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann; "Oliver Wendell Holmes and American Liberalism" by Richard M. Abrams, a review of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon M. Novick; "Corporate Hubris" by Stanley Coben, a review of The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940 by Robert F. Burk; "Baseball for Everybody" by Charles C. Alexander, a review of Baseball: The People's Game by Harold Seymour; "A Very Peculiar Business" by Jules Tygiel, a review of The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore by James Edward Miller and The Business of Major League Baseball by Gerald W. Scully; "Sino-American Historians and Sino-American Realities" by Robert L. Beisner, a review of Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade by Harry Harding and Yuan Ming, eds.; "Playing for the Split" by Waldo Heinrichs, a review of Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 by Gordon H. Chang; and "Understanding the CIA" by Charles E. Neu, a review of The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA by John Ranelagh plus The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs by Trumbull Higgins plus The CIA and American Democracy by Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones and America's Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society by Loch K. Johnson.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Spotless inside and out. The only apparent wear is that the upper right corner of the front cover and upper left corner of the back cover are just slightly bent about an 1/8" from the tip. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe delivery.This issue includes: "Introduction, Sport and the American Jew: A Second Look" by Steven A. Riess, guest editor; "Sport and the Forging of a Jewish-American Culture: The Chicago Hebrew Institute" by Gerald R. Gems; "The American Hebrew Looks at 'Our Crowd': The Jewish Country Club in the 1920s" by Peter Levine; "Dem Bums Become the Boys of Summer: From Comic Caricatures to Sacred Icons of the National Pastime" by Frederic M. Roberts; "Brandeis: Athletics at a Jewish-Sponsored University" by William Simons; "'Memories of Days Past' or Why Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant is the Greatest {Jewish} American Baseball Novel" by Eric Solomon; "Interview with Calvin R. and May Abrams" by Elli Wohlgelernter" plus the following book reviews: "Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1953-1960 by Isaac Alteras, reviewed by Michelle Mart; "Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth A. Frager, reviewed by Beth S. Wenger; "Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community by Gerald Tulchinsky and The Jews in Canada edited by Robert J. Brym, William Shaffir, and Morton Weinfeld, reviewed by Lee Arnold; "Jews of the American West" edited by Moses Rischin and John Livingston, reviewed by Debra Renee Kaufman; "This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston" by James William Hagy, reviewed by David Goldfield; "A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880-1945 by Shelley Tenenbaum, reviewed by Alan Berolzheimer; "On Modern Jewish Politics by Ezra Mendelsohn and The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State by Benjamin Ginzberg, reviewed by Michael Berkowitz; and "Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba by Robert M. Levine, reviewed by Maria-Cristina Garcia. Important Note: I only charge .50 per item shipping for second and subsequent items in a single order shipping within the United States.

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (holiday SALE item)* 208 pp., original paper wrappers, slight bump to the base of the spine, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.