Book ReviewsGail Fenske. The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 400 pp.; 12 color and 200 halftone illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00.
Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken. Home Lands: How Women Made the West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 184 pp.; 22 color and 46 black-and-white photos, 6 maps. $26.95 (paper).