..., 1922.—[Editors.] Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 John Slidell, Forgotten Leader in a Lost Cause Louis Martin Sears* Purdue University It is said of Thiers that he aspired to but one line in world history. A witty reviewer congratulates him that in Wells Outline he has failed...

...Burl Noggle The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920’s . By Ashby LeRoy . Urbana, Chicago, and London : The University of Illinois Press , 1972 . Pp. x , 325 . $10.00 . George W. Norris: The Persistence of a Progressive, 1913–1933...

...Charles S. Sydnor George Washington: A Biography. Vol. III: Planter and Patriot, Vol. IV: Leader of the Revolution . By Freeman Douglas Southall . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1951 . Pp. xxxviii , 600 ; 736 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952...

...Clarence Poe Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 L. L. POLK: A GREAT AGRARIAN LEADER IN A FIFTY-YEAR PERSPECTIVE CLARENCE POE FIFTY years ago this year the farmers not only of North Carolina and the South but of America mourned the death of the best-loved leader they have ever had...

...Theodore Ropp Panzer Leader . By Guderian General Heinz . Foreword by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Translated by Fitzgibbon Constantine . New York : E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1952 . Pp. 528 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 143 465...

...Allen W. Trelease Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era . Edited by Rabinowitz Howard N. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1982 . Pp. xxiv , 424 . $27.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 472 The South Atlantic Quarterly scriptivist schlock...

...Henry G. Ellis Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Influence of Industrial and Educational Leaders on the Secession of Virginia. By Henry G. Ellis. In studying the history of any given period, too much stress is apt to be laid on the political leader, who all too frequently...

...The Editor Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Two Negro Leaders By the Editor Two men, Booker T. Washington and William E. Burghardt DuBois, stand out as leaders of the negro race in America. Both of them are young men, teachers of negroes, and residents of the South. Both...

...Robert H. Woody Confederate Leaders in the New South . By Hesseltine William B. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1950 . Pp. xi , 147 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 343 men fight and bleed and die. Just what this means...

...Jay Luvaas Up Came Hill: The Story of the Light Division and Its Leaders . By Schenck Martin . Harrisburg : The Stackpole Company , 1958 . Pp. vi , 344 . $5.75 . Chancellorsville : Lee’s Greatest Battle . By Stackpole Edward J. . Harrisburg : The Stackpole Company...

... to reflect a modernized, attractive image of their political project. Politically oriented exhibition literature affects both artistic and political activities: more and more politically aware artists take political positions that influence their art practice, while important traditional political leaders...

...-American leaders have been expected to rise transcendentally above yellow, black, brown, and red leaders. In an attempt to gain rights to traffick as much opium as they wanted in the late eighteenth century, white Englishmen profiting from dealing drugs to the Chinese successfully lobbied the British Crown...

... charismatic leader, Reverend Myrtle Black, from Ann Allen Shockley’s 1982 novel, Say Jesus and Come to Me . Shockley is a black feminist theorist, novelist, and librarian who has been relegated to the margins of the margins of American literature. Although there have been attempts to explore Shockley’s...

... strategy African Americans have invoked to argue for civil and political rights, including defining civil rights as pertaining only or primarily to “racial rights” and idealizing black men as the necessary “leaders” for civil rights attainment. Situating Gaines within the context of his contemporaries, I...

... on the promises and predicaments of localizing what conservative Sudanese condemned as imported ideology. However, the Left's relentlessness in tailoring Marxism in a society emerging from the shadows of colonialism necessitated the rise of a charismatic leader such as Mahgoub, whose life was devoted to a desire...

... as revolutionary consciousness. Finally, I describe how victorious Liberal elites used the trope of race war to criminalize community insurgents, whose leaders were subject to trial, imprisonment, and execution, and stress the importance of linking national political struggles to local-level conflicts...

... and in the context of a post-2000 public culture of mourning for slain black leaders, I argue that the resurrections of King in contemporary American television series reinforce normative notions of black nationhood based in inheritance and masculine authority. Extending Andreas Huyssen’s notion of “twilight...

... a kleptocratic ruling class of sectarian leaders and financiers that had captured and bankrupted the state through a nationwide Ponzi scheme. Protests were nation-wide, calling for the downfall of the government and reform of the sectarian political and clientalist system. Many demanded a new form of politics...

... misses the important ways in which the two have become physically and technologically built into one another over the last three decades. While Washington leaders and oil company officials sought to secure strategic and energy interests in the Middle East throughout much of the twentieth century...

.... Grounded in a critique of “postcommunism,” this essay maps Lumumba's transition from bourgeois nationalist—the postcolonial leader—to the communist who did not name himself a communist, the anticolonialist transformed, by the force of history (the failure of the United Nations to protect the sovereignty...