JAMES F. SIMON. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2006. Pp. 324. $27.00.
JAMES EMMETT RYAN. Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650-1950. (Studies in American Thought and Culture.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2009. Pp. xii, 285. $26.95.
James Edward Miller . The United States and the Making of Modern Greece: History and Power, 1950–1974 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . 2009 . Pp. xvi, 301. $45.00.
James E. McWilliams . Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . 2007 . Pp. xi, 201. $35.00.
JAMES DELBOURGO. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. 367. $29.95.
James Corbett David. Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America—with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings.