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Publications reviewed include American Catholic Studies, American Jew- ish History, American Scientist, The Americas, Australian Journal of Politics & History, American Music, Business Day, Canadian Historical Review, City Press, Comitatus, Diogenes, English Historical Review, European History Quarterly, Forum for Modern Language Studies, French History, German History, (To- ronto) Globe and Mail, Goethe Yearbook, Histoire sociale/Social History, The Historian, HistoricalJournal of Film, Radio and Television, Holocaust Genocide Studies, Independent Online, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Journal of Religious History, Journal of Sport History, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of World History, Labor History, Legalbrief To- day, literaturkritik.de, LitNet, Mailand Guardian, The New Yorker, New York Review of Books (NYRB), New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), Nine, Notes and Queries, Oral History Review, Pacific Historical Review, Parergon, Politi- cal Quarterly, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Reviews in Religion & Theology, Russian Review, Science, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Socialism and Democracy, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Speculum, Studi Francesi, Twentieth Century British History, The Witness, Women: A Cultural Review, Women 's Review of Books, and Women 's Studies. Carving her subject from the nexus of American music, American history, and various forms of American culture, Beth Levy . . . begins by positioning American composers such as Charles Cadman, Ar- thur Parwell, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, and Aaron Copland in the wake of Prederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and Antonin Dvorák's New World Symphony, a striking way to begin. The is "a stirring sports saga as well as a trenchant social history, following the improbable journey of an eight-man rowing crew (plus coxswain makes nine) from the University of Washington against the backdrop of the Great Depression.