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Stephen J. McGovern. The Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xiv + 342 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8131-2052-7. Reviewed by Douglas Bailie, University of Alberta. Published by H-PCAACA (January, 1999)

Stephen McGovern. The Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington D.C.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xiv + 342 pp. Tables, maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8131-2052-7. Reviewed by David Kinkela, Department of History, New York University. Published by H-Urban (October, 1999)

Noah Brooks. Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks. Michael Burlingame, ed.. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii + 291 pp. Notes and index. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-5842-9. Reviewed by Brian Dirck, Department of History and Political Science, Anderson University. Published by H-CivWar (March, 1999)

Donald R. Kennon, ed. A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xiii + 583 pp. Contributors, notes and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8139-1795-6. Reviewed by Bob Arnebeck, Independent Scholar. Published by H-SHEAR (January, 2000)

Virginia Jeans Laas. Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. xiv + 169 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-55728-505-5; $16.00 (paper), ISBN 1-55728-506-3. Reviewed by Betsy Glade, Department of History, St. Cloud State University. Published by H-SAWH (March, 2000)

A Marriage Apart: Violet Blair and Albert Janin Carl Abbott. Political Terrain: Washington D.C. from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xv + 252 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2478-x; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4085-0. Reviewed by Alan Lessoff, Department of History, Illinois State University. Published by H-Pol (April, 2000)

Leah Rawls Atkins, Joseph H. Harrison, Jr., and Sara A. Hudson, eds. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama. By Virginia Clay-Clopton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xxviii + 462 pp. Photographs, annotations, index, index to annotations. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8173-1020-7; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8173-0986-1. Reviewed by Lorien Foote, Department of History, University of Central Arkansas. Published by H-SAWH (July, 2000)

Charles A. Cerami. Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. xii + 257 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-471-38752-5. Reviewed by Mary Beth Corrigan, Independent Scholar. Published by H-Maryland (April, 2003) Portrait of a Lady of Lafayette Square

Matthew Gilmore, December 2003

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